One of my favorite resources is the Laws of UX. If it's not already in your bookmarks, make a point of familiarizing yourself with the site.

Designers have to get more creative in how they communicate their website's "story."

Can you quantify wonder? If so, Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of Brooklyn's CW&T studios have mastered it.

Have you ever been on your laptop, late in the evening and just thought, "My eyes sure are tired"?

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all.