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Paper Prototyping Video that is pretty incredible (been around for a while).

Chris Mills from Opera discusses the options you have when coding for the mobile web.

Firefox Throttle is a Firefox plugin (Windows only) that allows you to do a number of things, one of which is to demonstrate exactly how slow 56K modem users will be viewing your websites. It does a bunch of other stuff you might also find useful.

Edward Tufte puts forward his view of the iPhone interface with a video demonstration in iPhone Resolution.

Jeffrey Zeldman in his recent post Zing discusses a four year old essay on Daring Fireball titled Ronco Spray-on Usability. Its not just something you tack on after the site is built. I particularly like Jeffrey’s last sentence.

There are even (although there are far fewer than there used to be) some designers who think their primary job is to wow the user with their skills.Jeffrey Zeldman

I’ve been living under a tree in a corporate office space for the last month but Silverback’s release still made a splash. Clearleft’s spontaneous unobtrusive usability testing software. Well worth your time to try it out.

In Jared Spool’s 11 minute screencast Case Study: A Discount Approach to Comparing Multiple Design Alternatives he used a Weighted Differences Matrix. In each row of the matrix a number represents the difference between the design alternative. In Assessing Weights for Users’ Needs Part 1 and Part 2 he provides more information on how to develop a weighted differences matrix.

Jared Spool’s 11 minute screencast, a case study about comparing 5 design alternatives in 2 days for under $10,000. After looking at the options they came up with Inherent Value Testing - a two phase process using 10-12 participants comparing the existing design to the best design alternative. The Weighted Differences Matrix uses weights to compare the design alternatives.