Rob Tannen presents an insightful guide to Ergonomics for Interaction Designers.
This presentation is based on a number of articles found on Rob Tannen’s website: Designing for Humans.

Some inspiring User Experience design from Microsoft… for once.
The most interesting and engaging technology here is demonstrated right at the beginning in the form of an interactive education platform. Unfortunately however, I think the business applications are far more likely to see the light of day, such as the touchscreen business cards and meeting console.

During the Opencast Matterhorn Leadership and Planning Meeting, Allison Bloodworth and Judy Stern of UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services provided an overview of the Business Analysis and User Experience roles and processes. The Matterhorn BA/U Team was proposed as a unified team working together as a cross-project resource to help the Matterhorn team understand & [...]

Prototyping tools can be a huge benefit to design workflow. However, it seems to me that the most common wireframing applications (Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure RP) whilst fine for producing low-fidelity mock-ups, are a barrier when taking the finished design through to production… Honestly, how many web designers, web developers, user experience professionals or otherwise really [...]

Darren David and Nathan Moody of Stimulant, sharing how they approach the design of large-scale multitouch interfaces.

This talk comes from Michal Migurski at Stamen and discuses interaction innovations and their approach to data visualisation.

From Lynda.com, this video shows some of the new features of Adobe Fireworks as a prototyping tool. Some of the highlights include:

Smartguides
Updates to the Pages panel
Auto (re)numbering of pages
9 Slice scaling.

A short video clip from the Effective Prototyping workshop for the TriUPA group.

If you have to explain to someone what human centered design is and you only have about two minutes: show them this movie from MAYA design.

This article was originally published by Russell Wilson from DEXO Design.
1) What is the best way for user interface design and usability to integrate with software engineering processes, specifically Agile processes?
Design and engineering must work well together if we want design cemented in the overall software development process.  Many perceive design as being oriented towards [...]