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I always enjoy reading real world examples of the design process in action. It's fascinating to see the thought process and choices made in arriving at a certain design.

I especially like 37 Signals' occasional 'Design Decisions' posts where they talk through the process of redesigning an element of one of their web apps.

Here is a collection of the ones that I most enjoyed:

• Redesigning help
• Saying more in less space
• Support request form redesign
• Signup chart redesign
• Campfire transcript page redesign
• Calendar picker redesign
• Prompting for an upgrade
• Saving space without losing meaning
• Designing the calendar strip
• Redesigning the Highrise list view page
• Redesigning the permissions page
• Designing the 'Add Anywhere' feature

I also highly recommend reading through the comments to each post. There's rarely universal agreement with the decisions made, which really highlights how a particular design objective can be approached from many different angles.