Resources

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

• What is UX?
• User Experience Strategy
• Testing Your Design
• Your First User Test!

UX Techniques

• Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites (Smashing Magazine)
• Lean UX Workshop Script (e.g. Design Studio)
• Conscious User Experience Design Presentation

General UX resources

• Stanford Web Services User Experience Guide
• UX Magazine
• Principles of User Interface Design
• UX Booth
• 52 Weeks of UX
• 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School
• UX Quotes
• Hack Design - Intro to UX
• Interaction Design Checklist
• User Interface Design Pattern Library
• Pttrns - Mobile User Interface Patterns
• Falling in Love with Forms presentation slides (on how to make forms suck less)
• User Onboarding 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
• Website Usability

UX Research Articles

• The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups
• When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods
• 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

On giving and getting good feedback

• Rules for running a productive design critique

UX Testing Tools

• Invision App
• Usertesting.com
• Loop 11
• Treejack
• Color contrast: http://colorsafe.co/

Conferences and Events

• An Event Apart
• ConFab
• IA Summit
• ConveyUX
• SXSW

Books

Universal Principles 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

Universal Methods of Design 

Don't Make Me Think

A classic must-read.

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences 

Web Form Design 

This is Service Design Thinking 

A wonderful textbook introducing what is Service Experience Design.