UX resources we have found useful. If you are member of UXers and wish to add to this page, please contact one of the core group and we'll give you permissions to edit on the site.
What is UX?
- As defined by the Nielsen Norman Group
- A great overview article from Smashing Magazine
- Wikipedia
- UX Design Defined
- UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer's Guide To The Tech Industry
- Gather Content's guide to UX
UXers UX Basics
General UX resources
- UX Magazine
- Principles of User Interface Design
- UX Booth
- 52 Weeks of UX
- UsabilityPost
- 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School
- UX Quotes
- Adaptive Path Blog
- UX Design
- Hack Design - Intro to UX
- UX category on Mashable
- UX Unicorn
- Interaction Design Checklist
- User Interface Design Pattern Library
- Pttrns - Mobile User Interface Patterns
- 4 Best User Interface Design Pattern Libraries
- Falling in Love with Forms presentation slides (on how to make forms suck less)
37 links to Style Guide and Pattern Library resources, from Jennifer Sutton- User Onbaording Teardowns
- How to Give and Receive Criticism
- UX thought of the day
- Design Talks (398 videos from 56 conferences)
- UX Project Checklist
- Post-It Note Printing Template
- Teach Access - Accessibility Tutorial
- Should you use a carousel?
- NN/Group on carousels. Carousel Usibility; Carousel, Accordian Accessibility
UX Techniques
- Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites (Smashing Magazine)
- Lean UX Workshop Script (e.g. Design Studio)
- Conscious User Experience Design Presentation
On giving and getting good feedback
- Rules for running a productive design critique
- Stop Dancing Around Criticism and Put It to Use with These Tips from Airbnb's Head of Experience Design
UX Research Articles
- The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups
- When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods
- How To Find The Right Sample Size For a Usability Test
- The 1-page usability test plan
- The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy downloads - Steve Krugs
- 5 Examples of Quantifying Qualitative Data
- Card-Based Classification Evaluation (Sample data collection/analysis spreadsheet based on this article.)
- Tree Testing
- How to Run Your Own Gurrilla Usability Testing
- Build Your Own Participant Resource for UX Research
- Google Ventures On 8 Shortcuts For Better, Faster Design Research
- 15 useful user feedback questions for online surveys
- Running Contextual Design Research for Service Strategy
- Usability.gov - Research Templates and Downloadable Documents
- Never Ask What They Want - 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews
UX Testing Tools
- Solidify
- Invision App
- Usertesting.com
- POP: Prototyping on Paper
- Loop 11
- Verify
- Treejack
- Color contrast: http://colorsafe.co/
Courses
Conferences and Events
- UX Week
- Adaptive Path UX Intensive
- Other Adaptive Path events and trainings
- An Event Apart
- ConFab (Content Strategy)
- IA Summit
- BlendConf
- UI18
- ConveyUX
- SXSW
- A whole bunch of conferences listed for 2014
- And a whole lot more!
Twitters to follow
Books
The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design
Universal Principles of Design
Universal Methods of Design
I love these books for how succinct they are, how perfect they are for summarizing methods and principles (think boiler plate language for clients), and how they categorize methods into different phases of the design process. – Megan
Don't Make Me Think
A classic must-read.
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences
This is Service Design Thinking
A wonderful textbook introducing what is Service Experience Design.
Innovating for People
A collection of innovation methods for everyone, distilled from over 900 design methods to create a "playbook" of sorts for method combinations to fit any design process.