Some of the best ux design references I've found along the way
People often reach out asking for references to either start out or improve on their career paths, so with a lot of care I decided to curate a list with all the content I could find on my notes, bookmarks or personal library about User Experience Design, Usability, User-Interface Design, Interaction Design, and Content Strategy.
This is a pretty broad list, so I am focusing on design disciplines. The idea is that this list keeps evolving as some of this links stop working and more cool stuff starts to appear, so if you think we forgot something you would like to see, give me a shout, and I can update it.
I am thinking about writing another piece with a list of reading references for other disciplines that I believe profoundly influence our day to day design work soon.
Hope you find some value in these references, as much as I do.
Blogs and Magazines
- UX Movement
- WebCredible
- UX Collective
- Smashing Magazine
- Muzli
- Invision Blog
- Adaptive Path Ideas
- Nielsen Norman Group — Articles
- UX Magazine
- Boxes and Arrows
- A List Apart
- UX Matters
- Intercom Blog — Design
- HeyDesigner
- UIE Brainsparks
- Form and Function
- Bokardo
- UXHandy
- UXSwitch
- Mule Design
- Google Design
- Facebook Design
- Shopify UX
- UX Planet
- Booking Design
- UX in Motion
- Dropbox Design
- Dear Design Student
- UX Pin
- Offscreen Magazine
Books
- Observing the user experience — por Mike Kuniavsky
- Insanelly simple — por Ken Segall
- Design of everyday things — por Don Norman
- Hacking Human Nature for Good — por Dan Ariely, Jason Hreha, and Kristen Berman
- Persuasive Technology — by BJ Fogg
- UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons — by Joel Marsh
- Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences — by Andrea Resmini
- Designing for Interaction — by Dan Saffer
- The Elements of User Experience — byJesse James Garret
- Smashing UX Design — byJesmond Allen, James Chudley
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web — by Peter Morville
- Designing Interactions — by Bill Moggridge
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design — by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
- Microinteractions: Designing with Details — by Dan Saffer
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design — by Jenifer Tidwell
- Seductive Interaction Design — by Stephen P. Anderson
- Search Patterns: Design for Discovery — by Peter Morville
- The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience — by Rex Hartson, Pardha Pyla
- Don’t make me think — by Steve Krug
- Rocket Surgery made easy — by Steve Krug
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers — by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
- The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide — by Leah Buley
- Lean UX — by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
- Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services — by Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper
- Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design — by Bill Buxton
- Quantifying the User Experience — by Jeff Sauro, James R. Lewis
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior — by Indi Young
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights — by Steve Portigal
- The User Is Always Right — by Steve Mulder, Ziv Yaar
- Measuring the User Experience — by Thomas Tullis, William Albert
- Handbook of Usability Testing — by Jeffrey Rubin
- Mobile Usability — by Jakob Nielsen, Raluca Budiu
- Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices — by Dan Saffer
- Mobile First — by Luke Wroblewski
- Responsive Web Design — by Ethan Marcotte
- Mobile Interaction Design — by Matt Jones, Gary Marsden
- Designing the Mobile User Experience — by Barbara Ballard
- Building Design Strategy: Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives — by Thomas Lockwood, Thomas Walton
- This is Service Design Thinking — by Marc Stickdorn
- The Connected Company — by Dave Gray
- Designing Services with Innovative Methods — by Satu Miettinen, Mikko Koivisto
- Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything — by Peter Morville
- The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life — by John Maeda
- The entire 'A Book Appart' Collection
- UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want
by Jaime Levy - Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams by James Kalbach
Online Courses
On this courses section, I decided to divide them between the free and payed so you don't get surprised.
Gratuitos
- 52 Weeks of UX — by Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer
- User Experience Design — by Springboard
- UX Crash Course — by The Hipper Element
- ProductPsychology — a course by Nir Eyal & others
- Human Computer Interaction — by Scott Klemmer (Stanford Coursera)
- How to run a cheap, fast, and incredibly useful user test — by Jason Hreha(Short intro)
Pagos
- The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX — by David Travis
- Usability Testing Boot Camp — by David Travis
- UX: The Practical Essentials of Real World UX — by Brendan Bolton-Klinger
- User Experience Design Fundamentals — by Joe Natoli
- UX and Web Design Master Course: Strategy, Design, Development — by Joe Natoli
- Interaction Design Specialization — on Coursera
- UX & UI Fundamentals — by Bloc
- Become a UX Designer — by Thinkful
- UXTraining — by Colman Walsh
- Become a UX Designer — by CareerFoundry
- Conducting Smart User Research — by Janelle Estes
- Creating Great Omnichannel Experiences — by Stef Miller
- Fundamentals of Usability — by Marieke McCloskey
- User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course — by Adam Treister & Pablo Stanley
- Mobile App Design From Scratch: Design Principles, and UX — by Maxime Cormier
- How to Build Habit Forming Products — by Nir Eyal
- Winning User Experience Design — by Oxford Learning Lab
- Design Your User Experience in 7 Simple Steps — by Amir Khella
- Information Architecture with Card Sorting — by U1 Group/Joji Mori
- Interaction Design — by DesignLab
- UX Basics — by Lis Hubert @ Treehouse
- Courses by the Interaction Design Foundation
Discussion Groups and Communities
Newsletters
- Mailchimp UX Newsletter
- UX Mastery Newsletter
- UX Weekly Newsletter
- UX Booth Newsletter
- UX Design Weekly Newsletter
- Smashing Magazine Newsletter
- Userfocus Newsletter
Softwares
I know this are not for read, but they do help make your process more slick on the day to day. So here goes a few more resources.
Prototyping
Testing and User Feedback
- Notable (Zurb)
- FiveSecondTest
- Sprint (by dscout)
- Usertesting
- Usersthink
- UsabilityProvider
- UsabilityHub
- Userbrain
- Userbob
- Userzoom
- 99Tests
- UXeria
- Validately
- Userfeel
- TrymyUI
- Userlytics
- Whatusersdo
- Usabilla
- Delighted — NPS
- Wootric
- Intercom
- AskNicely
- Qeryz
- Promoter.io
- CustomerGauge
- SatisMeter
- Satmetrix
- Hellocustomer
- NetPromotive
- UXCam
- UsabilityTools