⭐ Principles of User Interface Design - 19 Principles by Joshua Porter.
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design - They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines, by Jakob Nielsen.
First Principles of Interaction Design (Revised & Expanded) - The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices, by Bruce Tognazzini.
Principles of user interface design - 6 principles by Constantine/Lockwood.
20 Guiding Principles for Experience Design - A set of guiding principles for experience design — which anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow, by Whitney Hess.
Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design - These design principles from the legendary product designer Dieter Rams has influenced not only the iconic product designs from Braun in the 1960s, but also the design of Apple's products.
Principles of Calm Technology - When we design products, we aim to choose the best position for user interface components, placing the most important ones in the most accessible places on the screen.
Laws of UX - Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.
Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules Will Help You Design Better Interfaces - Apple, Google and Microsoft are among some of the highly successful companies whose well-designed products reflect Shneiderman’s rules.
Principles of bot design - Despite plenty of excitement it’s still unclear how conversational UIs can be made to work in a practical sense. But opinionated design principles can help us push past the hype, and design something real people will want to use every day, by Intercom.
Heuristic Principles for Mobile Interfaces - Search the web for heuristic principles and a long list of slightly varied sets will populate. Here is a curated collection of ten principles that are inspired by human-centered design and usability thought leaders.
Principles of Universal Design - These principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.
The 4 Golden Rules of UI Design - To increase the chances of success when creating user interfaces, most designers follow interface design principles. Interface design principles represent high-level concepts that are used to guide software design. In this article, I’ll share a few fundamental principles.
Steve Krug
Steve Krug’s guide to help you understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Review
Bruce Tognazzini
Using ideas from such diverse sources as Information Theory, Carl Jung, and even professional beekeeping, the book provides a framework for achieving a deep understanding of user interface design. Review
Hanington & Martin
This books serves as an invaluable compendium of methods that can be easily referenced and utilized by cross-disciplinary teams in nearly any design project. Review
Cooper, Reimann & Cronin
You'll learn the principles of good product behavior and gain an understanding of Cooper's Goal-Directed Design method, which involves everything from conducting user research to defining your product using personas and scenarios. Review
Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson presents the first practical guide to help designers and developers understand the psychology behind these tried and tested user interface design rules. Review
Jenifer Tidwell
UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and understand why the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence. Review
Rosenfeld, Morville & Arango
Anyone involved in digital design will learn how to create semantic structures that will help people engage with your message. Review
Jesse James Garrett
The author gives readers the big picture of Web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. Review
Golden Krishna
This book challenges our world of nagging, screen-based bondage, and shows how we can build a technologically advanced world without digital interfaces. Review
Bill Buxton
The book approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood-by both designers and the people with whom they need to work- in order to achieve success with new products and systems. Review
Kim Goodwin
This comprehensive, full-color volume addresses project management, user research, and consensus-building problems with detailed how-to information, real-life examples, and exercises. Review
Susan M. Weinschenk
This book combines real science and research with practical examples to deliver a guide every designer needs. Review
Jakob Nielsen
The book provides the tools needed to avoid usability surprises and improve product quality. Step-by-step information on which method to use at various stages during the development lifecycle are included, along with detailed information on how to run a usability test and the unique issues relating to international usability. Review
Donna Spencer
Whether it's organising content, providing clear descriptions or ways for people to get to them, this book is armed with practical advice and examples. Review
Luke Wroblewski
Former Yahoo! design architect and co-creator of Bagcheck Luke Wroblewski knows more about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to-the-point guidebook. Review
James Kalbach
This book demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology - it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Review
Leah Buley
The book prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables. Review
Marco Suarez, Jina Anne, Katie Sylor-Miller, Diana Mounter, and Roy Stanfield
A design system unites product teams around a common visual language. It reduces design debt, accelerates the design process, and builds bridges between teams working in concert to bring products to life. Learn how you can create your design system and help your team improve product quality while reducing design debt. Website
Matthew Linderman & Jason Fried
This book shows the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive, offers guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs. Review
Jeff Johnson
The book looks at user interface design bloopers from commercial software, Web sites, Web applications, and information appliances, explaining how intelligent, well-intentioned professionals make these mistakes--and how you can avoid them. Review
Mads Soegaard & Rikke Friis Dam (eds.)
The textbooks are assembled in a gigantic 4000+ page encyclopedia covering the design of interactive products and services such as websites, household objects, smartphones, computer software, aircraft cockpits, you name it. Website
Joel Spolsky
Author proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Review
Todd Zaki Warfel
Prototyping is a great way to communicate the intent of a design both clearly and effectively. Prototypes help you to flesh out design ideas, test assumptions, and gather real-time feedback from users. Review
UXPin
Easy to digest and practical for everyday design. Know how to choose the best UI pattern, prototype patterns, customize patterns, and create your own pattern library. Website
Mike Monteiro
This book will fill you with the confidence to do the job the way you always wanted to be able to do it. This book will help you understand your responsibilities. Review
Jarrod Drysdale
An eBook teaching design principles to bootstrappers, startup founders, and hackers. Learn easy design strategies to attract more users and help your business succeed. Become the designer your startup needs. Review
Joel Marsh
With this book, new UX designers will learn the practical skills they need to get started in the field, skills that can be immediately applied to real-world UX projects. Review
Laura Kalbag
A guide for the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Review
User Centered Design (UCD) - (User) Human-centered design is an approach to interactive system development that focuses specifically on making systems usable.
User Interface Design Basics - How easily and effectively people can accomplish their goals using a product or system, while having a positive experience.
How to Design Voice User Interfaces - Here, you will learn what the users expect from voice communication and get practical guidelines for how to design great voice user interfaces.
Designing Great UIs for Progressive Web Apps - Progressive Web Apps give us an opportunity to reset our expectations and to loudly declare that We Can Do Better when designing user experiences on the web.
The Anti-Mac Interface - We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop, by Jakob Nielsen (1996).
Complete Beginner's Guide on How to Learn UI Design - Can someone become an UI designer when he does not major in UI?Definitely yes.
Component based design. What even is that? - The benefits of designing & developing with components in mind. Want to know how to get started with a componentised design system? Read on.
Learn UI Design by Copying - It’s not a surprise that we have negative associations with copying, even to this day. But what about copying as a way to learn?
Approaches For Multiplatform UI Design Adaptation: A Case Study - In the case study, authors state that three different scenarios present themselves when developing UIs for multiple platforms.
The King vs. Pawn Game of UI Design - Try stripping out all the elements that you think you should be including already, and just mess around with the simplest players on the board. Get a feel for the fundamentals, and go from there.
Designing a VUI – Voice User Interface - VUIs are helping to improve all kinds of different user experiences, and some believe that voice will power 50% of all searches by 2020.
Gestalt principles in UI design - How to become a master manipulator of Visual Communication.
Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework - The fundamental skill of coloring interface designs is being able to modify one base color into many different variations.
The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX - The main interface animation's principles & rules collected in one place, so that other designers who want to start animating interfaces don’t have to search for additional information.
Closing the creative gap - If you find yourself looking at products and thinking “how the hell do I design something as good as that”, then this is for you.
10 UI & UX tips for developers building SaaS apps - Getting a nice UI/UX on a SaaS app can be a real challenge for developers that know how to code, but struggle with design. Here are my tips on getting the spit & shine on your UI.
API design is UI design — a way to collaborative handoff - Designing an API is interface design. Understanding how APIs work help us understand what our medium's capability. Having the knowledge to contribute to an API's design can increase the capability of our UX. This can be essential designer knowledge.
What is Information Architecture? - Information architecture is the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable.
Visual vocabulary for Information Architecture - A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design.
A Model for Understanding Information Architecture: Ontology, Taxonomy and Choreography - Understanding where the Information Architecture part is.
Information Architecture. Basics for Designers - Article is devoted to the essence of information architecture and presents the basic points every designer should know.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design - Far from merely working with text and pictures, interaction designers are now responsible for creating every element on the screen that a user might swipe, click, tap, or type: in short, the interactions of an experience.
What is Interaction Design: The Practical Framework - This article will introduce you to the core concepts of interaction design, explaining how to use them to breathe life into your product.
What is Interaction Design? - In this article, we’ll explain what interaction design is, some useful models of interaction design, as well as briefly describe what an interaction designer usually does.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Universal Design - While a good design is usable by people of all ages and technical adeptness, a truly universal design works for users with varying physical abilities.
The A11Y Project - Community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.
Designing for Web Accessibility - This page introduces some basic considerations to help you get started making your user interface design and visual design more accessible to people with disabilities.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to UX Research - Readers will get a head start on how to use these design research techniques in their work, and improve experiences for all users.
10 User Research Myths and Misconceptions - There are still many misconceptions about how to gain an understanding of users and their needs.
Cultivating Shared Understanding from Collaborative User Research - Erika Hall on UIE Brain Sparks.
The Discipline of Content Strategy - A List Apart article, by Kristina Halvorson.
Content Strategy 101 - A content strategy is a high-level plan that guides the intentional creation and maintenance of information in a digital product.
Content Strategy for Developers - If a business was an ocean explorer, then content strategy would be the compass. You can have the best boat, a killer crew and a meticulous map. But without a compass, you won’t know if you’re sailing in the right direction.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Content Strategy - Content strategy plans for valuable, findable, meaningful content.
User Interface Design Specialization / COURSERA - Design Better User Interfaces. Learn to create effective and usable interfaces for a range of products and devices. FREEMIUM / Video course
Intro to the Design of Everyday Things / UDACITY on Youtube - Summary of key concepts from the first two chapters of The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. FREE / Video course
Hack Design / SITE - Easy to follow design course for people who do amazing things. FREE / Email course
Learn UI Design / SITE - Confidently design beautiful user interfaces for any app or site. PAID / Video course
Evaluating User Interfaces / COURSERA - In this course you will learn and practice several techniques for user interface evaluation. FREEMIUM / Video course
IPL: UX/UI Design Fundamentals / edX - Design WOW Experiences & Validate Products Faster with Visual Prototypes. FREEMIUM / Video course
Interaction Design Specialization / COURSERA - Learn how to design great user experiences. Design that delights users. FREEMIUM / Video course
UX Foundations: Interaction Design / Linkedin Learning - In this course, join instructor David Hogue as he steps through the foundational processes and techniques required for interaction design. FREEMIUM / Video course
Screens Essentials for UI Designers / UDEMY - You will find plenty of tutorials and articles on how screen design essentials work with explanation of terms and key techniques. FREE / Video course
The 90-Minute UX Audit + UI Redesign / UDEMY - The faster, simpler way to quickly identify critical UX issues — just by looking at the UI. PAID / Video course
Intro to UX: Designing with a User-Centered Approach / SKILLSHARE - Join Google’s Cinthya Mohr for this thorough introduction to the world of UX design. PAID / Video course
The 2019 UI Design Crash Course for Beginners / YOUTUBE - In this course, Gary Simon will help answer that question and provide you with a blueprint that's going to speed up your transition from producing ugly UI's as a beginner, to producing fantastic UI's. FREE / Video course
Intro to UI Design Fundamentals / SCRIMBA - This tutorial course will teach you to design user interfaces that both look good and work well. All is done with HTML and CSS, so no clunky design tools needed. FREE / Video course
DesignAcademy / SITE - Learn the basics of design in just 6 days. FREE / Email course
Material Design - Unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences, by Google.
Fluent Design System - It’s a collective approach to creating simplicity and coherence through a shared, open design system across platforms, by Microsoft.
Ant Design - UI Design Language, by Ant Financial.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines - Get in-depth information and UI resources for designing great apps that integrate seamlessly with Apple platforms.
Carbon Design System - Carbon is IBM’s open-source design system for digital products and experiences.
Duolingo Design - Brand design and user interfaces of Duolingo.
mozilla dot design - This guide serves as a resource to bring together all our brands and to help define their visual and stylistic elements.
Clarity Design System - UX guidelines, HTML/CSS framework, and Angular components working together to craft exceptional experiences.
Acorn - Acorn is the design system for Firefox.
KaiOS Design Guide - This visual style guide serves as a resource for designers and developers, to help define the visual style for your KaiOS applications.
GoodUI - Here is a running idea list which we're actively testing and turning into highly effective conversion patterns (real evidence-based stuff).
UI Patterns.io - Explore & play with interactive UI design patterns and learn how to solve common UI problems.
UI-Patterns.com - User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems.
UI Garage - All the latest UI Design Inspiration and UI Patterns collected in one place.
Deceptive Patterns - The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use tricks in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn't mean to.
Android From Scratch: Common UI Design Patterns - In this tutorial, you learn about a few of these patterns and how they can help your users by creating a great experience when using your app.
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To - This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects.
Inclusive Components - Blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.
MODALZMODALZMODALZ - We use too many damn modals. Let's just not.
The Component Gallery - Collection of interface components from real-world design systems.
Sidebar.io - The five best design links, every day, by Sacha Greif.
Web Tools Weekly - Front-end development and web design newsletter with a focus on tools.
UX Design Weekly - Hand picked list of the best user experience design links every week.
HeyDesigner - Daily curated newsfeed for product people, UXers, PMs and frontend developers.
UX Notebook - The UX Notebook is a UX newsletter curated by Sarah Doody.
UIRecipes - Learn UI Design in 15 Minutes a Week.
UI Design Daily - Weekly FREE UI resources straight to your inbox.
UX Booth - Publication by and for the user experience community.
Boxes and Arrows - Devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business.
Information Architecture Institute (IAI) - From 2002 to 2019, the IAI was a nonprofit organization of volunteers with a singular focus: to make the world's information clearer and easier to use by improving how people learn, practice and teach Information Architecture (IA).
World Information Architecture Association - A a volunteer-run nonprofit professional association based in the United States. WIAA supports the global information architecture community through events like World IA Day, educational programs, and resources.
Interaction Design Association (IxDA) - Global community of people who share an interest in interaction design.
Hacking UI - Community for designers, developers and creative entrepreneurs with a passion.
Interaction Design Foundation - Community-based career development: 449 groups in 88 countries.
User Experience Professionals Association - UXPA International supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience (UX) of products and services.
World Information Architecture Day (WIAD) - An annual celebration that brings together a diverse community passionate about information architecture and its role in our work and personal lives.
Interaction Design Association (IxDA) - Global community of people who share an interest in interaction design.