Some ergonomic links

I'm attending the The virtual conference on Responsive Web Design and the speech of JD Graffam. He's speaking about little details, specifically microinteractions. You won't notice how important are details, until you think they deserve time. And study.
He remebered me of Luke Wroblewski, an UX expert I've stumbled on professionally, because of his work for a conference about my business.
So I tought, let's start adding some nice links:

That's all for now, I'll update this list as soon as I'll find something moving. I mean, really interesting.

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