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User Experience

Resources on User Experience within Design

Overview

Welcome to the User Experience subcategory of Design. This subcategory focuses on specific aspects of design related to user experience.

Overview

This section provides in-depth resources about User Experience. You’ll find a variety of materials suitable for different experience levels and learning styles.

Resources

Explore the sections below to find specific resources on various topics within User Experience. Each section contains carefully selected materials to help you learn and advance your knowledge.

Learning paths

  • UX design (13 steps)

    Learn how people perceive and use interfaces, then practise research, structure, prototyping and testing until you can design and defend a usable product flow.

Curated Resources (24)

Tools (3)

  • Figma figma.comfreemium

    Collaborative web-based interface design tool for UX wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, and design systems.

  • Penpot penpot.appfree

    Open-source, web-based prototyping and interface design application built natively on open web standards.

  • Miro miro.comfreemium

    Visual collaboration platform used by UX teams for user journey mapping, wireframing, and service blueprinting.

Databases (3)

  • Laws of UX lawsofux.comfree

    Interactive collection of psychological principles and cognitive heuristics that guide effective user experience design.

  • Mobbin mobbin.comfreemium

    Curated design pattern library indexing thousands of real-world mobile and web user journeys, screens, and interactions.

  • Page Flows pageflows.comfreemium

    Extensive video archive documenting user flows and interaction patterns from top mobile and desktop applications.

Learn (6)

  • Google UX Design Professional Certificate coursera.orgfreemium

    Comprehensive beginner certificate covering the UX design process, usability research, wireframing, and interactive prototyping.

  • Interaction Design Foundation Courses interaction-design.orgpaid

    Accredited self-paced online courses covering user research, usability evaluation, design thinking, and cognitive psychology.

  • Laws of UX lawsofux.comfree

    Educational guide examining psychological heuristics, cognitive biases, and behavioral principles that inform human-centered digital experiences.

  • Design System Roadmap (roadmap.sh) roadmap.shfree

    Interactive roadmap on building design systems: topics laid out in a suggested study order, each linking to further reading.

  • Product Design Roadmap (roadmap.sh) roadmap.shfree

    Interactive roadmap on digital product design: topics laid out in a suggested study order, each linking to further reading.

  • UX Design Roadmap (roadmap.sh) roadmap.shfree

    Interactive roadmap on user experience design: topics laid out in a suggested study order, each linking to further reading.

Publications (5)

  • The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction interaction-design.orgfree

    Peer-reviewed, open-access textbook and reference work covering key concepts, historical foundations, and methodologies in HCI and UX design.

  • Journal of User Experience uxpajournal.orgfree

    Peer-reviewed open-access scholarly journal publishing empirical studies, methodologies, and case analyses in user experience.

  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction dl.acm.orgpaid

    Leading peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and applied research in interactive systems and human-computer interaction.

  • The Design of Everyday Things jnd.orgpaid

    Foundational book by Don Norman introducing affordances, signifiers, mental models, and human-centered design principles.

  • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited sensible.compaid

    Influential guide by Steve Krug outlining core tenets of intuitive navigation, visual hierarchy, and usability testing.

Blogs and sites (4)

  • Nielsen Norman Group Articles nngroup.comfree

    Evidence-based research articles, usability reports, and guidelines covering all aspects of user experience design and evaluation.

  • UX Collective uxdesign.ccfree

    Independent design publication curating essays, case studies, and critical perspectives on user experience, product design, and usability.

  • Boxes and Arrows boxesandarrows.comfree

    Peer-contributed journal dedicated to the practice, innovation, and discussion of information architecture and interaction design.

  • UX Movement uxmovement.comfree

    Design publication focusing on how interface design choices affect user behavior, cognitive load, and usability.

Events and conferences (4)

  • UXPA International Conference uxpa.orgpaid

    Annual international gathering of user experience practitioners, featuring peer-reviewed presentations, workshops, and research case studies.

  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems sigchi.orgpaid

    Premier academic and professional conference in human-computer interaction, presenting cutting-edge research in user experience and interactive systems.

  • Config config.figma.compaid

    Global annual conference exploring digital product design, user interface workflows, and the future of collaborative design systems.

  • UXDX uxdx.compaid

    Annual conference series focusing on integrating user experience research and product design into cross-functional delivery teams.

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