What are blogs that discuss smart software design?

Question

I read a lot of coding blogs, but I don’t know many who focus on making good design decisions. I mean the things that the product / program manager will do, for example:

• Development of creative solutions to design problems
• Creating a good usability / user experience (e.g. Usability Post, http://www.usabilitypost.com/ )
• Developing a scalable, extensible, forward-looking design or architecture (I see this a lot in the discussion of standards and programming languages)

Does anyone know smart design blogs? (It does not even need to be focused solely on software; good / bad design can be seen in all kinds of technologies.)

Answer 1

If you like stackoverflow, you might like these guys :;)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/

Answer 2

http://ayende.com/Blog/

Answer 3

Some of my personal favorite design and development resources:

• Smashing magazine
• A list apart
• Signal Vs. Noise
• Web resource

Answer 4

Anyone for Steve Egg? Announce Rants Blog

Answer 5

I enjoy reading things on SitePoint

Answer 6

Google Testing Blog . Developing your code to be tested is a reasonable thing, and test projects are often smart projects, not even considering their ability to test.

Answer 7

Stop Signal vs. Noise , a "design and usability blog."

Answer 8

Cell Performance , a great blog about data-driven design, optimization and programming on the PS3.

The software development principles that run on the PS3 apply almost anywhere performance is important.