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UX design resources I recommend

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.

#UX, #design

UX design resources I recommend

Big influence on me

“Refactoring UI” by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger

Refactoring UI teaches you a systematic approach to design and contains some cool tricks.

NN group

https://www.nngroup.com/

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.

“Don't make me think!” by Steve Krug

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.

Topics explained with illustrations

https://uxknowledgebase.com/

“The Non-Designer's Design Book” by Robin Williams

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.

Graphic design / UI

UX design

Batux

Batux is a comic which explains UX design process in a plain language.

HackDesign

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.

Total beginner

Resources that I recommend to someone who have no clue about design.

Checklist 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.”

The Checklist Manifesto - by Atul Gawande

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.checklist.design/

Design Base

https://www.felixjoy.co/designbase

Design Base is mainly focused on UI design. So, you can find more resources about colors, mockups, typography etc.

degreeless.design

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.

UX Hunting kit

https://uxhuntingk.it/

Oriented on job-getting tools.

It focuses on 3 main areas:

UX tools.co

https://uxtools.co/library

UX tools.co library is focus on books about different aspects of design.

Lists of resources

In these lists of resources there is certainly an overlap.

Design resourc.es

https://designresourc.es

Various design resources. Doesn't matter if you want to learn design, find mockup tools, or discover design systems. This site has you covered.

Product design.tips

https://productdesign.tips/

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.

RSS reader – Panda

https://usepanda.com

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.

UXresources.design – A simplified starting guide for UX designers.

https://uxresources.design/

A simplified starting guide for UX designers.

Just do it!

Design inspiration

Ways to practice design

ProductDesign.tips Challenge

https://productdesign.tips/challenge

Briefz

http://briefz.biz/

UX challenge

http://www.uxchallenge.co/

Growth.design

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

ReallyGoodUX has many examples of good UX from different real sites. Each example contains screenshots and commentary.

Think about things you use

Look around you, think about products you use every day, how to improve them, what works well, what doesn't work and why.

Design challenges (need to comment all)

100 example UX problems

https://uxdesign.cc/100-example-ux-problems-f90e7f61dd9f

Sharpen

https://sharpen.design/

 

FakeClients

FakeClients

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.