New Reads

Just put down my copy of 'Designing the Obvious'. Its a great book for beginners and also has a thing or two in store for people who have been walking down the UX path for sometime now.
Will now start reading 'Design for Non Designers'...
An interesting conversation at work today. The tech team was reviewing my designs for tech feasibility. I had suggested an 'information on demand' pattern in a couple of places, where the extra information appeared inline on the same page instead of directing the user to a different page or popup [Inspired from rhj's inline FAQs - Designing the obvious]The tech team's contention was that I should move it out to a different page as it increases the coding effort for that one page, but they cannot quote such a high estimate for a single page...
Obviously, the core dev isn't familiar with the component level estimation paradigm that the industry is now embracing post the AJAX revolution, so another turf war in the calling...