This commercial plays at the end of some of the TED Talks. What I noticed was the way the video performs transitions between shots. I like the clean colored text and the outline which then becomes a portal to a different scene. This is a nice way to do cuts and something that could be used in a Flash/Flex website or application.

User Interface Design section.

Resources on usability, user interface, interaction, design, design patterns, data visualization and more:

Edward Tufte

Inventor of sparklines.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Books/Essays:

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Envisioning Information
• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
• Beautiful Evidence
• The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint

Robert Spence