I am finishing up a 6 month project with one of my favorite clients. I look forward to sharing some of the Interaction Design experiences from this project when it launches in October 2010. In the mean time, I finally got the time to update my portfolio with projects from 2009 (PDF 6MB). New details on my role as Interaction Design Lead on projects for People.com, InStyle.com and MarthaStewart.com.

I’m loving Jakob Nielsen’s New Book, “Eyetracking Web Usability,” coauthored with Kara Pernice and published just a few weeks ago. It is precisely the great insight I have come to expect from Nielsen over the years.

I have not been in the usability lab for months, and my husband no longer qualifies as the “average user” because I’ve made him my guinea pig too many times. “Eye Tracking Web Usability” really satisfies my need to observe user behavior.

Nielsen and Pernice eloquently describe user behavior with four-hundred-thirty-two pages of eyetracking evidence. Maybe I’m just a sucker for heat maps, but I say – Read it!