One of my favorite authors, Cory Doctorow, has a very different and interesting book about an Interface Designer who makes his living figuring out how to make the world easier to use.
One of the main characters inventions is a mesh network music sharing application that shares music from car to car. This means it works better and gives you more options when in traffic...
So, what happens when an elite interface designer gets committed to a mental institution? He finds all the loopholes in the security of course!
I liked the story itself, but it also gave me a large number of ideas on how to improve the experience of my users.
The book is free online
http://www.craphound.com/est/Cory_Doctorow_-_Eastern_Standard_Tribe.html
or, if you want to pay to have it on paper:
Eastern Standard Tribe
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