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This is pretty incredible. Eva-Lotta Lamm's self-published book contains 2 years' worth of illustrated sketchnotes from dozens of UX / Design events and conferences, featuring talks from over 100 speakers and panelists.

Some of the events covered in the book are UXweek 2009, d.construct 2010, Flash on the Beach 2010, UXcamp Europe 2010, offf 2010, UXcamp London, Internet Week Europe 2010, various London IA events and RSA talks.

The book contains notes from talks by Edward Tufte, Scott McCloud, Jesse James Garrett, Ryan Singer, Tim Berners-Lee, Stephen Fry, Dave Gray, Whitney Hess, Stephen Anderson, Andy Budd, Richard Rutter, Eric Reiss, Giles Colborne, Mr. Bingo, Julien Vallée, Matt Pyke, David MacCandless and many more. You can see examples of Eva-Lotta's sketchnotes on flickr.

More info about the book here at her book site. I just purchased a copy for myself.

http://www.evalotta.net/sketchnotes/

I just started reading What Makes Them Click, Susan Weinschenk's blog for people who want to learn how to apply psychology to understand how people think, work, and relate.

"The blog focuses especially on applying the latest research in psychology to make you more effective, be more successful at your work and in your career, and get to know better why you and the people around you do what you do."

Susan wrote the New Rider's book, Neuro Web Design: What makes them click, which applies the latest research on unconscious mental processing and persuasion principles to the design of web sites. Read more at the What Makes Them Click site.

http://www.whatmakesthemclick.net/

Ryan Singer at 37signals explains code refactoring to designers so that they can use it correctly in a design context.

Designers sometimes use the word “refactor” in a loose way. I think they overhear the word from programmers without getting the precise meaning. This article will introduce the term to designers so they can gain the same advantages that programmers have from a clear understanding.

How do designers loosely understand refactoring? Many take it to mean “rearranging” a design or “adjusting without completely rethinking” it. Refactoring actually means something else. It means changing the way a design is built without changing the way it looks from the outside.

Read more at svn.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2738-refactoring-for-designers