So you wanna be a user experience designer – UX article by Whitney Hess
From her blog:
Pleasure and Pain » So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 2: Guiding Principles
I have collected a set of guiding principles for user experience designers, to encourage behaviors that I believe are necessary to being a successful practitioner, as well as a set of guiding principles for experience design — which I think anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow.

