President Obama’s new Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, gave a talk on technology and innovation. The first thing he said that needs to be considered? Customer experience design. Listen to his address here (it’s good!)

The Litl is a sexy little webbook. Read what Pentagram said about its design. (And also read Pentagram’s involvement in the NY Riverways project.)

Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact.’

The Information Architecture of Behavior Change Websites.

Our friends at Flickr have released an App Garden.

This one has made the rounds: Cell Size and Scale. It’s a powers of 10 thing!

Hrm. This seems to be a taxonomy error.

Dieter Rams’ 10 design principles. Follow them and you, too, can make spare white objects.

DVR is TV’s new BFF. (In other words, the TV industry fighting DVR was as senseless as fighting VCRs, or music industry fighting cassette tape, or piano rolls, or… etc etc.)