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The ultimate list of UX resources, research, and methods

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Over the years, I’ve collected my favourite go-to links for resources, research, and methods within UX design. During my time as Lead Instructor of the User Experience Design Immersive program at General Assembly London, I’ve made a few updates and additions.

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Notable UX Blogs

Organisations

Design Heuristics

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design by Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
The Circles of Information Architecture and UX Honeycomb by Peter Morville, Semantic Studios
Dieter Rams — Ten principles for good design

Design Frameworks

Lean UX

Quantity trumps quality (at first) by Jeff Gothelf — identifying one of the fundamental Lean UX principles

More

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 Methods

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

User Research

Emotion and Design

Design Ethics

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

Ideation

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

Emerging Technologies

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

Product Management

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

Teamwork and Design Leadership

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

Soft Skills and Personal Development

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 Planning

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

Working with Clients

13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations by Mike Monteiro

Information Architecture

Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner’s Guide by Smashing Magazine
Sitemaps — The Beginner’s Guide by Chris Mears The UX Review
Things Organized Neatly curated by Austin Radcliffe

UX Copywriting

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 Project by Clem Auyeung
Content Strategy Basics by Usability.gov
Tech Writing Handbook by Kyle Wiens and Julia Bluff

Sketching and Prototyping

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

Visual and UI Design

Branding

Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age by Kate Kaplan, Nielsen Norman Group
User Experience is Brand Experience by Eric Karjaluoto

User Interface (UI) Design

Design Language

BBC Global Experience Language (GEL)
IBM Design Language
Material Design by Google
Building a Visual Language by Airbnb Design

Style Guides

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

Colour

Interface Design

How We Hold Our Gadgets by Josh Clark, A List Apart
Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes by Anthony T, Smashing Magazine

Layout

Design Elements and Principles by Canva
Intro to The 8-Point Grid System by Elliot Dahl

Typography

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

Photography

Inclusive and Accessible Design

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

Navigation and Menu Design

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

Onboarding

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 expereinces

The “Fold” and Scrolling Behaviour

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+

Form Usability and Best Practice

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

Designing for International Usability

Bidirectionality: Right to Left Languages, Google Material Design
BBC World Service Language Websites: user experience and typography by Kutlu Canlioglu, BBC Future Media

Tutorials and Online Learning

An A-Z List of Tech Terms You Need to Know as a UX Designer by Guy Ligertwood
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design — IDEO.org and Acumen
Interaction Design Foundation
Switch to Sketch
Tuts+ UX Foundations
UX Companion
UX for the Masses

UX Portfolios

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

Tools

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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