Scott Berkun has put together a small article on how to innovate right now. http://www.uie.com/articles/innovate_right_now/
He mentions that every innovator’s tool kit includes these three things:

How does Apple iterate their design? Looking “Inside Steve’s Brain” to find out.

User Interface Engineering (UIE) has an interesting podcast discussing some of the problems when using wireframes for complex designs. They cover issues like preserving context, explaining why interface elements are there (or not), and setting priorities for what can be cut.  Keith Robinson call his solution the Page Description Diagrams which describe what the wireframe [...]

I am including a series of links that I ran across while doing research into contrast and text readability.

As we look to start conducting usability tests, we need to make sure our toolkit is in place and ready. The ability to deal with video and audio recordings is getting simpler as well as the ability to combine them.
This is a small inventory of what is required for a portable usability lab:

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As more companies attempt to harness “design thinking” to create strategic
advantage, a potential dichotomy may emerge within internal design
departments.
Most corporations have organized their design group in the context of their
product development process. What this amounts to is that the design
department is part of the company’s “assembly line”. Product ideas come [...]

Welcome to Usable Patterns.
Here at Usable Patterns, we are intrigued by many things. We dabble in project management, requirements management, interface design, as well as GTD principles and Agile methodology.
We are available to help you with your project, whether it being how to best manage it, how to design it, and perhaps most simply, [...]

From the June 19 edition of Business Week…For Lucente, the ethnographer, consumer observation has been a big route
out of HP’s dilemma. Until recently, HP’s merger with Compaq Computer
had produced an unintegrated company with hundreds of isolated
businesses and thousands of products. To help build a unified, creative
culture and reconnect with HP’s customers, Lucente launched a major
research [...]