Last week I was tasked with creating a GUI for an iPhone application. My first! Excitement was soon followed by a case of nerves. Now what? I found this seriously cool set of iPhone Omnigraffle Stencils that have proven to be immensely valuable.

And on a related note, I also learned how to take an iPhone screenshot. Press and hold the Power button, then immediately press the Home button. Release both and voila! A screenshot in your camera roll.

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Core 77 recently presented the winners of their 1 Hour Design Challenge – The Future of Digital Reading. The participants submitted some charming solutions, with the best entries focusing on the social aspect of reading books.

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We all know Whitney Hess is a design goddess. But I didn’t realize that she’s also human! In her Pleasure and Pain blog, Whitney relates her experience presenting at An Event Apart in Chicago last month. Here you can learn about her stumbling blocks, nervousness and ultimate rock-star presentation.

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In his blog post, Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen, Jared Spool discusses how great designs typically go unnoticed, while users often remember — and deconstruct — glitchy designs.

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Woo hoo! Jeffery Veen’s Typekit has finally been released. A subscription-based service, Typekit allows you to legally link to hundreds of Open Type fonts to embed within your web page.