Suw Charman on social functional design – bringing in community early enough into the design process. Designing for different modes of communication, how the design of a site facilitates of hinders patterns of behaviour?

Luke Wroblewski on form and interface design

1. Make sure your PDFs are text based.
2. Complete the document properties.
3. Optimize the copy.
4. Build links into PDFs.
5. Pay attention to the version. (Acrobat 7)
6. Optimize the file size for search.
7. Pay attention to placement.
8. Influence meta descriptions for PDFs.
9. Specify the reading order.

W3C guide on creating accessible pdf documents.

'Tagged PDF is a stylized use of PDF that allows reliable recovery of text, graphics, and images in PDF documents, with no ambiguity about the contents or the ordering of the contents. A Tagged PDF file is page oriented. Each page of a Tagged PDF document contains the text, graphics, and images in reading order, as determined by the authoring application. A Tagged PDF is a Logical Structured PDF. Logical Structure is used to carry information necessary to support tagging for access and content extraction, as well as styling properties needed for access, reflow, and content extraction. It also provides the identification of the article flows in the cross-page environment for access and content extraction.'

Excellent article on ux design and an Agile process. Not an easy symbiosis but some good pointers

Map of UK councils – election and council details

Formal taxonomy for NELinks project

Personal site for Jenifer Tidwell – Interaction designer, who wrote Designing Interfaces [o'Reilly]

How to: css sprites

Latest WCAG2 – 'Perceivable, Operable,Understandable and Robust'

Useful for checking current trends in browsers, search engines, screen resolution etc

Public transport in and around West Yorkshire.

Considerable art resource offering engaging events spanning 5 years from Guerilla Girls to Martin Greed.

It's great stumbling across interesting work, this is an abundant site full of compelling design and ideas.

Leeds based warehouse of art materials all left over from local industries, ribbons, paper, buttons etc