Fox@fury is an interesting blog I have started following. Kevin Fox displays a keen design eye for offering small usability improvements that can potentially yield important usability benefits.
In a recent post, for example, he offered a simple suggestion for how to alter the appearance of Chrome tabs to improve the user’s ability to determine which of many open tabs is active. In another, he analyzed the Android app market to show some of the fundamental flaws in its design.
One continuing design challenge is how to integrate the various micro-designs into a coherent whole, how to foster an appropriate mental model that allows users to learn the system easily and deeply so that they can generate unexpected (by their designers) use of technology and recover from system errors and from their misconceptions of how things work.