Spyrestudios have just posted the most impressive list of cheatsheets I’ve ever seen. Head on over and have a look : Cheatsheet Mega Collection

Over on http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/30/liquid-fluid-and-elastic-layout-templates-tools-and-frameworks/ there are several useful tools for helping you to design and create your web layouts.You will find template layouts, tools for creating grids of all sizes and even a handy little CSS generator.

Understanding and embracing the intricacies of User Interface Design, can be a lot to take on. Especially if you are a freelance designer, where client budgets often do not afford you the luxury of engaging in extensive user research and regular production meetings. However, having an awareness of established methods for planning, designing and creating User Interface Designs, can help you to improve your workflow, allowing you to use your time more efficiently and also provide a high level of professional service to your clients. Below are some helpful links that provide an overview of the workflow in developing user interface designs.

At Smashing Magazine there is a recent article about Designing User Interfaces for Business Web Applications. From here you will find many useful links for further reading on much of the content.

At Usability.gov there is a Visual Step-by-step Guide guiding you through the user-centred design process. Although the site presumes you have a large design team at your disposal, it still provides an invaluable insight into the process, and a lot of this can be easily adapted to smaller scaled projects.

Almost to prove the above point, here is a site that provides an explanation as to why you only need to test with 5 users.

A few quick links for anyone looking for a few tips on developing effective colour schemes for web sites.

Over at Smashing Magazine we have a 3 part article on Colour Theory:

• Part 1 looks at the meaning of colour.
• Part 2 will start to unravel some Colour Theory terminology.
• Part 3 will guide you towards creating your own effective colour palettes

And for an amazing tool that takes all of the hard work (and maybe a bit of the spontenaity) out of creating colour palettes try Colour Scheme Designer 3.