Some of us may not be trained as interaction designers or usability engineers, however, an eye for details and reasoning is always needed for awaken our design sense and build expertise. How do we make a product that is important to the user, clear for comprehension, and with a purpose? OK, start look around and double think if what you see is really what it should be.
Watch Bill DeRouchey‘s “Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects” talk given at Adaptive Path‘s UX Week 2007 in Washington DC: