Pure InfoDesign Resources: Web

Design

Cool Designs

VAl Casey visual design site.
Weegee's World Home Page - a nice, simple site that uses a different sort of interface.
STRETCH Demos -a cool tool developed by a friend, Karen Theisen
scottmccloud.com - The author of Understanding Comics
Mappa.Mundi Magazine - the best site I know of that looks at mapping sites and the net. I always spend more time than I expect to here! Nice visual design too.
Bad Designs - even funnier collection of bad product designs. Be sure to check out the mop sink example!
EYE4U activemedia web design - just about the coolest Flash site I've seen.
CommunicationArts Interactive Competition - collection of award winning sites.
b e y o n d . i n t e r f a c e - well, this one is a little mystifying, but worth looking at. Digital arts, I think.

Design Firms

Cooper Interaction Design - their philosophy is "Most software needs to be spanked." See also the book About Face
Sapient - high-end design firm with a nice site.
Nielsen Norman Group Strategic Human-Centered Design - Jakob Neilsen and Don Norman as gurus for hire.
Interface Design and Development - Web Design, GUI and OOUI Design, Usability Testing - Texas firm.
Toby Braun Information Design - promotes his business, but gives a good overview of information design.
MetaDesign - another high-end design firm. Good information here by Eric Spiekermann on information design.
Dynamic Diagrams Design - interesting mapping of sites.
Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc - interesting mix of projects, with some medical UIs you can look at.
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Usable InformationTechnology (Jakob Nielsen's site) - really excellent source of web usability information. You may also want to get Nielsen's recent book.

Informatics User Interface Research

Magazines

Organizations

Standards and Guidelines

Stock Art & Photos

Typography

Web Design

INFORMATICS & MEDICAL SITES

HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is generally IT management focused, but does useful surveys of healthcare CIOs.
The other, generally more academic group is AMIA (the American Medical Informatics Association) which also showcases smaller, and non-commercial systems at its annual conference.
The Medical Record Institute has published a pretty good (if dated) book called The Computer-Based Patient Record. They tend to be academically focused also.
The last of the bunch is CHIME, or the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Their website is pretty thin.
UC Davis has an applied medical informatics program.

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