EverydayUX morsels (August 16th – August 19th)

Windosill
Beautiful, engaging, little toy.
inessential.com: Anatomy of a feature
This piece does an excellent job highlighting the implications of every choice made when you’re entertaining a (small) new feature and I thought the narrative style in which it’s told would be relevant to everyone in the field of product development.
The Making of the NPR News iPhone App – Inside NPR.org Blog : NPR
Good piece exposing some of the UX and Creative process that went into building their new iPhone app.
Dear American Airlines | Dustin Curtis
This story is a few months old and if you haven't read it yet, you definitely should. Designer Dustin Curtis writes a letter to American Airlines and offers them a redesign of their homepage to boot. Be sure to check out the work and the response from AA.
Mountains Out Of Molehills | Information Is Beautiful
Nice visualization of the coverage given to various media scare stories from the past 10 years.