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I read an interesting interview with Daniel Burka on Sitepoint last week. Daniel is, amongst other things, the lead designer at Digg. He talks about web, UI and interaction design and is a keen advocate of “user-centred design”: responding to how your users use your site and letting them guide you to what the problems are, which it’s then up to you to solve:

“And it’s up to us to find solutions to the problems—like the Henry Ford maxim that I mentioned in my talk today [at Web Directions South] : “If I had asked my customers, they would have told me they wanted a faster horse.” Anticipate beyond what our users can imagine. Having the feel to make that logical jump to the next level. That’s where the real genius is.”