Design is problem-solving. In the context of digital products, the field includes (but is not limited to) web design, mobile app design, usability testing, user experience design, and writing for the web.
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Blogs
Books
- A Project Guide to UX Design (Ross Unger)
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Alan Cooper)
- Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology (David Evans)
- Designing Interactions (Bill Moggridge)
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Steve Krug, 3rd edition)
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things (Don Norman)
- Envisioning Information (Edward Tufte)
- Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (Jeffrey Rubin)
- Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction (Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Noessel)
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design (Giles Colborne)
- The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman, 2nd edition)
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper)
- Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design (William Lidwell)
- Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Luke Wroblewski)
LinkedIn Learning
Note: free through Seattle Public Library
Organizations
- ACM
- Interaction Design Foundation
- Puget Sound SIGCHI
- User Experience Professionals Association, Seattle Chapter
Podcasts
- The UIE Podcast (Jared Spool)
Videos
- 10 UX Challenges for the Next 25 Years | Jacob Nielsen
- Banish Your Inner Critic | Denise Jacobs. (Part I, Part II – podcast)
- Engagement and buy-in for UX design | Dana Chisnell
- The Design Leader’s Guide to Measuring UX | Jared Spool
Articles
- 10 Usability Heurestics for User Interface Design, N/N Group
- Best practices in mobile design: creating error messages, User Snap
- Design thinker Don Norman on his stealth startup, Apple vs. Android vs. Microsoft, and experience design, Gigaom
- How to conduct a heuristic evaluation (PDF), Oracle
- Providing Predictable Targets (Fitts’ Law), AskTog
- Turn user goals into task scenarios for usability testing, Jakob Nielsen
- Usability 101: Introduction to usability, N/N Group
- User experience honeycomb, Intertwingled
- UX & Error Messages: stop scaring your uses, Medium
- Web development reading list: form usability, Smashing Magazine
- Website Forms Usability: Top 10 Recommendations, N/N Group