Get up to speed with UX & Product Design — Essential Readings
I’ve put together this list of links and resources to help the junior members of my team at Qubit to get a better understanding of the design discipline applied to product software development.
The aim of this was to collect relevant materials to help them gain new skills and learn new methods to perform their best overtime (and at the same time gathering in one place some of the stuff I personally enjoyed reading).
As I often see online designers expressing curiosity about the discipline, and looking for some help, I hope this could be a starting point for them too.
Books:
Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
Priceless: Hidden Psychology by William Poundstone
Product Design for the Web by Randy J. Hunt
Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible Experiences
The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
Evil by Design: Interaction Lead Temptation by Chris Noddern
Cognitive Ergonomics: Human Computer Interaction by J. Long
Neuro Web Design by Susan Weinschenk
(Coming soon) Sprint Solve Problems by Jake Knapp
In addition to the above, it’s worth to have a look at the Rosenfeld Media website - a great UX book’s publisher.
Free E-Books from the Internet:
Product Management by Intercom
Customer Engagement by Intercom
UX, Product and Visual Design library by UXPin
Blogs:
Tobias van Schneider on Life and Product Design
Google Venture on Product Management
Communities:
Interaction Design Association (IXDA)
Newsletters:
The UX Newsletter by MailChimp
Design and VC by John Maeda / KPCB
Tools:
Sketch: Design UI components and UX wireframes
Zeplin: Collaboration with Developers
Facebook Origami: Animated Prototyping
Miscellaneous:
There is definitelly so much more out there, and the more you learn the more in-depth you want to go. But if you’ve any additional resources that would help us improve our process, get faster and better, please feel free to share giving me a shout on Twitter @giovanniluperti and I’ll add to the list.
