Happy new year, we’re so happy you’re here! And now, for our first roundup of favorite things in 2016:

• As Ethan and Karen so eloquently note: RWD EOY OMG (a podcast episode recapping the highlights of 2015).
• Equally simply put, “The Year in Design,” from Jeffrey Zeldman.
• On Dear Design Student: Dealing with an absent decision maker during times of review, and more.
• From last year, but ever-timely, “More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait,” from Scott Jehl.
• Aarron Walter explains the importance of research and designing with emotion, in an interview with Dorm Room Tycoon (drt.fm).
• On the MS Dev Show podcast, Karen McGrane talks about the responsive web design process.
• Jeffrey Zeldman writes, “Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then and Now,” asking us to think about how we deal with the increasingly slippery digital ground beneath us.
• Reader-friend Simon Pan says this is the only UX reading list you might ever need! And, yes, we’re on it (blush).
• Even though the wonderful Pastry Box Project has closed, you can still lose yourself in their lovely stream of content.

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