These are the five blogs that our design director, Tina Roth Eisenberg, checks out every day. Tina's own amazing design blog is Swissmiss.

Coudal's "fresh signals" are addictive. You'll see.

Designobserver. A must see for every graphic designer.

BBlinks. BB always finds the best links.

Advertising/design goodness. Tons of excellent advertising/design related finds

Core 77 is an 'industrial design supersite'. Enough said.

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Creating Passionate Users is a remarkable blog written by the authors of the best-selling Head First computer book series. They're passionate about studying how the brain works -- and how to exploit it for better learning and memory. This entry appeared on 3/3/06.

The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that's what the brain guys are saying. Best of all--it's almost never too late.

If you have a website -- whether you're a blogger, mom-and-pop or 800-pound orangutan - you think about "user experience." That, of course, is obvious. But ever try to find a phone number on a company's website? How many clicks did it take? Well, maybe not so obvious.