ππ The Complete List of User Experience (UX) Resources & Tools ππ
Over 100 links to the best books, courses, newsletters, and tools out thereβ¦
This is a continually updated list of the best UX resources.
Last updated 3/17/2016
Over the years Iβve collected a ton of different resources to help me with my product & UX work. Iβve signed up for dozens of newsletters and blog emailers, purchased a bunch of books, checked out some online courses, and have used a wide range of tools to help me bring my ideas to life. Finally, I decided to go through all of my bookmarks, emails, and text files and put of all these resources into a comprehensive list.
Enjoy!
UX Newsletters
- Mailchimp UX Newsletter
- UX Mastery Newsletter
- UX Weekly Newsletter
- UX Booth Newsletter
- UX Design Weekly Newsletter
- Smashing Magazine Newsletter
- Userfocus Newsletter
- UX Notebook Newsletter
- My Daily Newsletter π
UX Blogs & Magazines:
- InfoDesign
- WebCredible
- Adaptive Path Ideas
- Nielsen Norman Group β Articles
- UX Magazine
- Boxes and Arrows
- A List Apart
- UX Matters
- Intercom Blog β Design
- HeyDesigner
- UIE Brainsparks
- Form and Function
- Bokardo
- UXHandy
- UXSwitch
Books:
- Donβt make me think β by Steve Krug
- Rocket Surgery made easy β by Steve Krug
- Observing the user experience β by Mike Kuniavsky
- Design of everyday things β by Don Norman
- Hacking Human Nature for Good β by Dan Ariely, Jason Hreha, and Kristen Berman
- Persuasive Technology β by BJ Fogg
- UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons β by Joel Marsh
Online Courses
Free:
- 52 Weeks of UX β by Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer
- User Experience Design β by Springboard
- UX Crash Course β by The Hipper Element
- ProductPsychology β a course by Nir Eyal & others (and me!)
- Human Computer Interaction β by Scott Klemmer (Stanford Coursera)
- How to run a cheap, fast, and incredibly useful user testβ by Jason Hreha (Short intro)
Paid
- The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX β by David Travis (Iβve heard this, perhaps, the best online UX course)
- Usability Testing Boot Camp β by David Travis
- UX: The Practical Essentials of Real World UX β by Brendan Bolton-Klinger
- User Experience Design Fundamentals β by Joe Natoli
- UX and Web Design Master Course: Strategy, Design, Development β by Joe Natoli
- Interaction Design Specialization β on Coursera
- UX & UI Fundamentals β by Bloc
- Become a UX Designer β by Thinkful
- UXTraining β by Colman Walsh
- Become a UX Designer β by CareerFoundry
- Conducting Smart User Research β by Janelle Estes
- Creating Great Omnichannel Experiences β by Stef Miller
- Fundamentals of Usability β by Marieke McCloskey
- User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course β by Adam Treister & Pablo Stanley
- Mobile App Design From Scratch: Design Principles, and UX β by Maxime Cormier
- How to Build Habit Forming Products β by Nir Eyal
- Winning User Experience Design β by Oxford Learning Lab
- Design Your User Experience in 7 Simple Steps β by Amir Khella
- Information Architecture with Card Sorting β by U1 Group/Joji Mori
- Interaction Design β by DesignLab
- UX Basics β by Lis Hubert @ Treehouse
- Courses by the Interaction Design Foundation
Discussion Groups
Software
Prototyping
Need to quickly create a robust prototype of your product with your mockups? These are the tools for you.
- InVision
- Marvel
- Silver
- Pixate
- Proto.io
- POP
- Fluid
- Prott
- CanvasFlip
- Flinto
- Notable (Zurb)
- Axure
- Indigo Studio
- Principle
Testing Services
If you need to get your designs (or prototypes) in front of users, and gather their feedback, these are the tools for you.
- Notable (Zurb)
- FiveSecondTest
- Sprint (by dscout)
- Usertesting
- Usersthink
- UsabilityProvider
- UsabilityHub
- Userbrain
- Userbob
- Userzoom
- 99Tests
- UXeria
- Validately
- Userfeel
- TrymyUI
- Userlytics
- Whatusersdo
Feedback Collection
Want to get a rough sense of how youβre doing? Feedback collection tools like Delighted and Usabilla can give you a sense of how youβre doing on a scale of 0β10 or βsad faceβ to βecstatic faceβ.
- Usabilla
- Delighted β NPS
- Wootric
- Intercom
- AskNicely
- Qeryz
- Promoter.io
- CustomerGauge
- SatisMeter
- Satmetrix
- Hellocustomer
- NetPromotive
Record & review user sessions
The first time I saw FullStory, I thought: βMy god β I donβt need a user research coordinator anymore.β While thatβs not true (I love research coordinators), these tools should be a part of every product teamβs arsenal.
Card Sorting
Bad information architecture? Start here.
Surveying
Get qualitative feedback from your users with a surveying tool.
User Research Recruiting
Ethnio owns this category. If you want visitors to your site or app to be screened and added to pre-defined user-research groups, this is the tool for you.