INSPIRATION. RESEARCH. PATTERNS. LIBRARIES
#1: Baymard 🍡 - Baymard Institute uncovers what designs cause usability issues, how to create “State of the Art” user experiences, and measures how your UX performance stacks up against leading e-commerce sites. Benchmarks of 185 brands, divided by intent or screen.
#2: SasS landing page examples 🍡 - 710 landing page examples created by top-class SaaS companies, and get ideas and inspiration for your next design project.
#3: Build for Mars - Case studies - 10,000+ hours of research packed into 54 case studies. It’s like a UX university, without the fees.
#8: Insights by Invision Data - Research-backed studies, and helpful tips and recommendations from industry experts.
#15: Mobbin 🍡 - UI & UX research. Library of 100,000+ mobile & web screenshots.
$8 a month and has a freemium option.
$8 a month and has a freemium option.
#20: Concept maps by Dubberly - "We create concept maps, a type of model, to explore and learn about complex information spaces".
#24: Service Design Tools - The open collection of tools and tutorials that help deal with complex design challenges.
#28: UI Design Inspiration - Design Inspiration & UI Patterns from real products.
#32: Checklist Design - A collection of the best design practices. Checklist of what needs to be done along the whole project journey.
#33: The noun project 🍡 - Search over 5 million icons.
#35: Google fonts 🍡 - Over 3,004 glyphs in a single font file with a wide range of design variants. Symbols are available in three styles and four adjustable variable font styles (fill, weight, grade, and optical size).
#36: Figma best practices 🍡 - Design best practices and Figma tips.
#37: MUI Google Material icon 🍡 - 2,100+ ready-to-use icons.
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FILTERS
#1: Pencil & paper - Enterprise filtering. Going beyond e-commerce.
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TABLE DESIGN
#1: Design better data tables - Article by Andrew Coyle from 2017. Presentation of a list of design structures, interaction patterns, and techniques to help you design better data tables.
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COLOR SYSTEMS
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WORKSHOPS
#1: Run a workshop - Content to support Workshoppers with tried-and-tested workshop formats, helpful articles and guides, and interviews.
DESIGN SYSTEMS
#9: Design System Gallery - A comprehensive and curated list of design systems, style guides and pattern libraries that you can use for inspiration.
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PODCASTS
Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.
UXPodcast™ - UXPodcast™ is a twice-monthly digital design podcast - hosted by James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom - sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011. We want to push the boundaries of how user experience is perceived and boost your confidence in the work you do.
The Nielsen Norman Group (NNg) UX Podcast - The Nielsen Norman Group (NNg) UX Podcast is a podcast on user experience research, design, strategy, and professions, hosted by Senior User Experience Specialist Therese Fessenden. Join us every month as she interviews industry experts, covering common questions, hot takes on pressing UX topics, and tips for building truly great user experiences.
UI/UX Breakfast - Join us for exciting conversations about UI/UX design, SaaS products, marketing, and so much more. My awesome guests are industry experts who share actionable knowledge — so that you can apply it in your business today.
User Defenders - Being a great UX designer begins and ends with being a great human. We can't pour an empty cup into another. We can’t lead others where we are not.
This UX podcast helps UX’ers become the best, most powerful designers (and humans) they can be. Yes, you'll discover how-to’s, but much more importantly you'll discover why-to’s.
99% invisible - Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
Design Better - The DesignBetter.Co Podcast is from DesignBetter.Co, where we want to make it easier for you to design great products. Visit us at www.designbetter.co. DesignBetter.Co is brought to you by InVision, the platform that helps you design better, and faster, together.
The Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody, Founder & CEO of Career Strategy Lab, will help you apply timeless design, marketing, and sales strategies to your career. Each episode has actionable steps that will take the overwhelm and stress out of advancing your career regardless of what stage you’re at.
ACCESSIBILITY
#5: Toptal 🍡 - Colour-blind web page filter. Use the Colorblind Colorlab to select safe colours earlier in the design process.
FREE PICS + DOWNLOADS
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TOOLS
#3: Survey Monkey - Online survey tool for online surveys, or for capturing feedback following usability testing.
ARTICLES & BLOGS
"In this article, I’ll discuss diary studies so you can understand what they are, what questions they aim to answer, how to conduct them, what their limitations and benefits are, and how to earn buy-in for a diary study from key stakeholders".
By Lara Hocheiser
"In this article, I’ll explore the process of testing AI products with users and discuss key metrics and techniques that designers can use to ensure their accuracy. Choosing the right testing method helps AI products to continue improving our lives by minimizing the risks and pitfalls that accompany any new technology".
By Dmitry Starkov
A UX designer wields the power to determine how the audience on the other side of the screen feels about their experiences in the digital world. By using the power that technology confers on us responsibly, we can—and should!—create user experiences that support people’s well-being. However, designing for mental health is not easy because people’s experiences are subjective.
By Nevilson Christian
# 5: Muzli. Design inspiration, news, and trends, curated from over 120 sources.
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BOOKS
#1: Anne H. Berry, et al. The Black Experience in Design. Allworth, 2022.
#2: Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration into Your Communities. By: Susie Wise, Ten Speed Press, 2022.
#3: Design for Social Innovation. Case Studies From Around the World. By Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May and Andrew Shea.
#4: Design for Wellbeing: An Applied Approach. By Ann Petermans & Rebecca Cains (eds), Routledge, 2020.
#5: Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination. By Batya Friedman & David Hendry.
#6: Technology with Moral Imagination. MIT Press, 2019.
#7: The Social Design Reader. By Elizabeth Resnick (ed). Bloomsbury, 2019.
#8: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. By Elinor Ostrom, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
#9: Design Justice Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, Sasha Costanza-Chock.
#10: Design, Ecology, Politics, Towards the Ecocene Joanna Boehnert Bloomsbury, 2021.
#11: Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us by Hilary Cottam, 2018.
#12: The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People. By Mauro Porcini's, Berrett-Koehler, 2023.
#13: The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact. By Jacob Harold's book, Wiley, 2023.
#14: Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered. By Don Norman's. MIT Press, March 2023.
#15: New Designer: Breaking Myths, Embracing Change, Manuel Lima's. MIT Press, May 2023.
#16: The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli.
#17: Less But Better by Dieter Rams.
#18: Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand.
#19: Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann.
#20: Interaction of Color by Josef Albers.
#21: The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems by Josef Müller-Brockmann.
#22: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte.
#23: The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher.
#24: The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.
#25: The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten
#26: Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
#27: Change by Design by Tim Browna.
#28: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
#29: The Monocle Guide to Better Living by Andrew Tuck.
#30: Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman.
#31: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz.
#32: Information is Beautiful by David McCandless.
#33: Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg.
#34: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky.
#35: 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller.
#36: Start With Why by Simon Sinek.
#37: Knowledge Is Beautiful by David McCandless.
#38: Naoto Fukasawa Bill Moggridge.
#39: Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty by David Kadavy.
#40: Relationships by Gail Greet Hannah.
#41: Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam.
#42: How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy.
#43: Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen.
#44: Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice by Armin Hofmann.
#45: A Designer’s Art by Paul Rand.
#45: Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture by Casey Reas.
#46: Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless.
#47: Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine by Donald A. Norman.
#48: Designed for Use by Lukas Mathis.
#49: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman.
#50: The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.
#51: Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors by Betty Edwards.
#52: Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type by Kimberly Elam.
#53: Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions by Edward R. Tufte.
#54: The Design of Everyday Things by
Don Norman, Basic Books, 2013.
Don Norman, Basic Books, 2013.
#55: The Universal Principles of Design
William Lidwell et al. Rockport Publishers, 2010.
William Lidwell et al. Rockport Publishers, 2010.
#56: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, 1994.
#57: Product Design for the Web
Randy J. Hunt, New Riders, 2014.
Randy J. Hunt, New Riders, 2014.
#58: Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky, Penguin, 2009.
Clay Shirky, Penguin, 2009.
#59: Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn by Sharon L. Bowman.
#60: The Manual of Design Fiction by Julian Bleecker, Nick Foster, Fabien Girardin and Nicolas Nova, 2022.
#61: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. By Alan Cooper
#62: Don't Make Me Think. Steve Krug, 2000.
#63: Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden.
FUN FUN
#1: The useless web - The Useless Web... because some websites, we just couldn't do without.
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