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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.
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Design Better Forms
A great Medium article by Andrew Coyle around web form best practices.
February 18, 2022
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January 14, 2022
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The design of API documentation
Thomas Bohm’s interview with Joanna Suau originally published in Information Design Journal on 20 December, 2021.
January 14, 2022
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
UX Testing Tools
- Invision App
- Usertesting.com
- Loop 11
- Treejack
- Color contrast: http://colorsafe.co/
Conferences and Events
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
