The wonderful Smashing Magazine has published some usability findings/guidelines that I think are great. There’s also more links at the end of the article to more findings, etc.
To summarise they are:
1. Form labels work best above the field. This is because forms tend to be vertical in nature so people find it easier to [...]

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’m interested in explaining things through means other than words, in particular diagrams and pictures. Here’s a great example of what I mean – http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/good-night-and-tough-luck/
Cristoph shares info about his sleeping habits and humorous anecdotes (I couldn’t agree more about the damn mosquitoes!). His pictures are so simple [...]

I’ve been reading a bit about explaining ideas and concepts (including business problems) through sketching. People can write pages and pages of text to explain a problem or to point out patterns in data, when a simple sketch (or diagram) can do it faster and better.
Then I come across a video of Bobby McFerrin [...]

I love a good data visualisation – even better when it’s your own data! The people over at Xefer have a neat little tool that visualises your tweets. It shows the quantity of tweets broken down by time and days of the week.
As you can see from my graph below, I tend to [...]

A lot of governments (at least in Australia) ask their residents to use 4 minute egg-timers in the shower to save water. Well I like idea of LEDs that show water usage much better. For every 5 litres that that goes own the drain, a new LED on the scale lights up. [...]