I've been fortunate enough to attend talks given by both Luke Wroblewski (LUKEW, http://www.lukew.com/) and Joshua Clarke (Global Moxie, http://globalmoxie.com). Both have written excellent books on design principles and UX/UI implementation (Luke on web form design, Joshua on app interfaces and design).
If you're interested in web standards and design, http://www.alistapart.com/ is also a great site to follow.
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I've been fortunate enough to attend talks given by both Luke Wroblewski (LUKEW, http://www.lukew.com/) and Joshua Clarke (Global Moxie, http://globalmoxie.com). Both have written excellent books on design principles and UX/UI implementation (Luke on web form design, Joshua on app interfaces and design).
If you're interested in web standards and design, http://www.alistapart.com/ is also a great site to follow.