Created by Kamila Klavíková
Do you want to know what UX design is? You are in the right place! These are selected resources for beginners. But some stuff might be useful even if you have some experince in UX design.
Refactoring UI teaches you a systematic approach to design and contains some cool tricks.
Founded by Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman who defined the field of UX.
Don Norman is an author of a famous book “Design of Everyday Things”.
Jakob Nielsen is an author of the quintessential usability checklist 10 Usability Heuristics.
An easy way to explore a simple kind of design research. Also, it has recommendations for other books which get more into details of specific topics.
I first read this book when I was nine and it changed my view of design forever.
The book is about general principles of graphic design that are also applicable to UI. It compressed graphic design principles literally into CRAP (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity). It will help you grow your understanding of aesthetics and style.
Batux is a comic which explains UX design process in a plain language.
HackDesign is an email course. About 50 lessons are available for free. Each lesson has a topic. It consists of introduction and a few links to articles and tools.
Resources that I recommend to someone who have no clue about design.
“Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane.
Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss
Good checklists are, above all, practical.”
And this is one of them. It is divided by different criteria such as topics, elements, flows and pages. Each checklist might contain checklist, inspiration, article, and examples. You can check what you have done so you see your progress.
https://www.felixjoy.co/designbase
Design Base is mainly focused on UI design. So, you can find more resources about colors, mockups, typography etc.
https://www.degreeless.design/
This list of resources creates kind of a curriculum for anybody who wants to start in design. It is everything Tregg learnt in design school.
Oriented on job-getting tools.
It focuses on 3 main areas:
UX tools.co library is focus on books about different aspects of design.
In these lists of resources there is certainly an overlap.
Various design resources. Doesn't matter if you want to learn design, find mockup tools, or discover design systems. This site has you covered.
It has Chrome extension and Slack app. It contains plenty of resources about anything you image from accessibility to UX writing. Also, it contains a link to product design challenges.
You can read news from different sources such as Hacker News, Design Now, CSS Tricks. If you sign in, you can customize the sources. It doesn't have to be only design. It can be normal news, marketing etc.
A simplified starting guide for UX designers.
https://productdesign.tips/challenge
Growth.design has interesting case studies in the form of comics. Each case study analyzes some product, explains why it works and what could be improved. Also, there is a section about psychology.
ReallyGoodUX has many examples of good UX from different real sites. Each example contains screenshots and commentary.
Look around you, think about products you use every day, how to improve them, what works well, what doesn't work and why.
https://uxdesign.cc/100-example-ux-problems-f90e7f61dd9f
Practice different kinds of design using randomly generated client briefs. Short briefs are free to use. You also have long ones that are mostly paid.