User Experience Design Resources
Originally posted on blog.prototypr.io from Francesca Sciandra extended from Michael Fuchs. Last Update 08-Sept-2021
- The Design Process: What is the Double Diamond? by the Design Council
- How to apply a design thinking, HCD, UX or any creative process from scratch by Dan Nessler
Google Design Sprint
- Design Sprint Kit by Google
Jobs-To-Be-Done
- 8 Things To Use in “Jobs-To-Be-Done” Framework For Product Development by Zbigniew Gecis
Human-Centered Design
- The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design — IDEO.org
Lean UX
- Quantity trumps quality (at first) by Jeff Gothelf — identifying one of the fundamental Lean UX principles
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- Real-Life UX Design Processes by UX Pin—an exploration of Discovery-Driven UX, Organic UX, Mobile-First Agile UX, Swarm Design, and Structured Participatory Design
- UX Techniques by UX Mastery
- Effectively Planning UX Design Projects by Smashing Magazine
- Experience maps, user journeys and more… by UX Lady
- A Guide to Personas by Ben Ralph
- Adapting empathy maps for UX design by Paul Boag
- Facilitating an Effective Design Studio Workshop by Kate Kaplan, Nielsen Norman Group
- The Ninja Skill for UX Designers by Molly Inglish — An intro to whiteboard design challenges
- Nielsen Norman Group
- Usability.gov
- Advocating for the Disabled and Addicted
- Interviewing Users by Jakob Nielsen
- The Power of Three by Dan Iaboni
- Never Ask What They Want — 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviewsby Charles Liu
- 5 Steps to Create Good User Interview Questions by Teo Yu Sheng
- Get better data from user studies: 16 interviewing tips by Michael Margolis, Google Ventures
- Contextual Interviews: Context is Everything by Andrew Jacobs
- Recruiting Your Target Audience for UX Testing with Screener Questionsby Ki Arnold, User Testing
- How Many Test Users in a Usability Study? by Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
- Emotion and Design: Attractive things work better by Donald A. Norman
- Do Attractive Things Work Better? An Exploration of Search Tool Visualisations [PDF] by Bejal Chawda, Brock Craft, and Paul Cairns
- Digital Experiences Are About People, Not Technology by Nathaniel Davis
- Living with Complexity, Chapter 1 [PDF] by Donald A. Norman
- Can Amazon’s Alexa Be Your Friend? by Aaron Paul Calvin
- Ethics can’t be a side hustle by Mike Monteiro
- How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons by Noam Scheiber, New York Times
- Everything is a Remix [Video] by Kirby Ferguson
- A Guide to the SCAMPER Technique for Creative Thinking by Raffia Elmansy, Designorate
- 100 Ideas that Changed the Web by Jim Boulton
- Creation Myth, Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
Ideation Tools
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
- A.I. Experiments by Google — Explore machine learning by playing with pictures, language, music, code, and more
Voice and Conversational Interfaces
- Amazon Alexa Voice Design Guide
- Conversational Design Essentials: Tips For Building A Chatbot by Slava Bushtruk & Anton Skorniakov, Smashing Magazine
Wearables
- Google Glass Didn’t Disappear. You Can Find It On The Factory Floor by Tasnim Shamma
- The 3-Step Hybrid Process for Prioritizing Product Features by Jerry Cao
- The Time Value of Shipping by Brandon Chu
- Designing MVPs for Improved UX by Dan Birman
- Minimum Desirable Product by Andrew Chen
- Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better by David Rock, Heidi Grant, and Jacqui Grey
- re:Work — The five keys to a successful Google team by Google
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team by Charles Duhigg, New York Times
- 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage and Sister Corita Kent by Maria Popova, Brainpickings
- Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability, TED Talk
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, TED Talk
- Why Walking Helps Us Think by Ferris Jabr, The New Yorker
- Project Canvas by Jim Kalbach, Experiencing Information
- MethodKit Project Canvas by MethodKit
- Kanban 101: How to Use Kanban Boards to Manage Your Next Project by Zapier
- Taxes for Freelancer by CPA Accounting
- 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations by Mike Monteiro
- Employee onboarding vs. orientation: Why you need both by Gloria Sims
- Guide by Smashing Magazine
- Sitemaps — The Beginner’s Guide by Chris Mears The UX Review
- Things Organized Neatly curated by Austin Radcliffe
- Idea Management 101 The Ultimate Guide To Driving Innovation
- UX Design And Content Strategy: The Project Guide by Gather Content
- What is UX Writing? by Kristina Bjoran, UX Booth
- A Checklist for Content Work by Erin Kissane, A List Apart
- Forget Coding: Writing Is Design’s “Unicorn Skill” by Katharine Schwab, Co.Design
- Language as Interface: A Voice and Tone Guide for Your UX Design Projectby Clem Auyeung
- Content Strategy Basics by Usability.gov
- Tech Writing Handbook by Kyle Wiens and Julia Bluff
- Everything You Need to Know About UX Sketching by Nick Vyhouski
- In Defense of the Evidence — A case for valuing, saving, and exposing the artifacts of design by Chris Risdon
- Smart Annotations by Dan Saffer, Boxes and Arrows
- Why It’s Important to Annotate Your Wireframes by UX Movement
- Building a trustworthy brand for your business might just be the single most important thing you can do to set your business up for massive success in all your sales, marketing & growth initiatives. by Devin Schumacher
- Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age by Kate Kaplan, Nielsen Norman Group
- User Experience is Brand Experience by Eric Karjaluoto
Podcast 12+ Strategies & Channels
- Social Media & Content Marketing Strategie by BULK.LY
- BBC Global Experience Language (GEL)
- IBM Design Language
- Material Design by Google
- Building a Visual Language by Airbnb Design
- Website Style Guide Resources
- 50 Meticulous Style Guides Every Startup Should See Before Launching by Canva
- 100 Style Guides You Should See Before Designing Yours by Freelancer.com
- How We Hold Our Gadgets by Josh Clark, A List Apart
- Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes by Anthony T, Smashing Magazine
- Design Elements and Principles by Canva
- Intro to The 8-Point Grid System by Elliot Dahl
- Typewolf: Typography Inspiration for the Modern Web
- Font Squirrel
- Google Fonts
- Fonts in Use — a searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and industry
- Kern Type — a kerning game to practice your letter-spacing
- Inclusive Design at Microsoft
- Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility by Karwai Pun, GOV.UK
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- How to Meet WCAG 2.0 — quick reference guide by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Color Contrast Checker by Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
- Inclusive Design Toolkit by University of Cambridge
- Ageism and Technology [PDF] by Stephen J. Cutler
- Menu Design: Checklist of 15 UX Guidelines to Help Users by Kathryn Whitenton, Nielsen Norman Group
- Low Findability and Discoverability: Four Testing Methods to Identify the Causes by Jennifer Cardello, Nielsen Norman Group
- A Roadmap To Building A Delightful Onboarding Experience For Mobile App Users by Anton Kosolapov, Smashing Magazine
- Best Practices for Onboarding by Nick Babich
- User Onboard — provides teardowns of popular onboarding experiences
Employee onboarding vs. orientation: Why you need both
- Everybody Scrolls by Rebecca Gordon and Evan Dody, Huge Inc.
- People don’t scroll by UX Myths
- The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing by Fiz Yazdi, cxpartners
- Designing for the New Fold: Web Design Post Monitorism, Shaun Cronin, Envato Tuts+
- Website Form Usability: Top 10 Recommendations by Kathryn Whitenton, Nielsen Norman Group
- Design Better Forms — Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them by Andrew Coyle
- Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist by Brian Crescimanno, A List Apart
- Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study) by Adam Silver
- 20 Guidelines for Usable Web Form Design, J.A. Bargas-Avila, O. Brenzikofer, S.P. Roth, A.N. Tuch, S. Orsini and K. Opwis, University of Basel
- Avoid Multi-Column Forms by Jamie Appleseed, Baymard Institute
- Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful by Katie Sherwin, Nielsen Norman Group
- A crash course: Form design for usability across desktop and mobile by Kat Matfield, Adaptive Lab
- An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability by Justin Mifsud, Smashing Magazine
- The Form Usability Treasure Trove: 42+ Top Resources by Phil Sharp, User Testing
- The 10 Commandments of Good Form Design on the Web by Johan Ronsse, Mono
- Usability Testing of Inline Form Validation: 40% Don’t Have It, 20% Get It Wrong by Christian Holst, Baymard Institute
- If Satan was a web designer… by Fabricio Teixeira
- Bidirectionality: Right to Left Languages, Google Material Design
- BBC World Service Language Websites: user experience and typography by Kutlu Canlioglu, BBC Future Media
- Building Your Design Portfolio: 10 Dos and Don’ts by Andrew Wilshere
- Building your design portfolio? Here are 8 things I wish I’d known. by Emelyn Baker
- Milanote – The tool for organizing creative projects.
- Sans Francisco —A collection of tools to help designers craft delightful experiences
- Invision
- Marvel
- Optimal Workshop
- Pantone Studio — iOS app
- Post-it Plus — iOS app
- Sneakpeekit Sketch Sheets
- Svgsus — Easier SVG handling for Mac
- Tomato Timer — An online timer for the Pomodoro Technique
- Trello
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