Forum

User Research

This is a question and answer type of website for user experience designers, UX researchers, information architects, and human-computer interaction designers. It’s built and run as part of Stack Exchange’s network of Q&A sites. All questions here are tagged with different subject areas such as usability, website design, GUI-design, interaction-design, user-behavior, user-expectation, and so on.

Article

Usability Testing

Construct more realistic usability testing scenarios without sacrificing reliable data. See which mistakes to avoid and explore our example tasks.

Video

Visual Design

In this video, I explain how I came to my list of 12 UI Principles that we will be going over in depth in this series over the next few weeks. Check out the resources below to start learning about these principles.

Framework

Psychology in Design

Discover the nuances of emotion The emotion typology is an open-access online database that provides detailed information on positive and negative emotions. It includes 60 emotions, of which 24 are positive and 36 are negative. For each emotion, the database provides the following information: - formal definition - explanation of causes and responses - three clips from popular movies expressing that emotion - typical verbal expressions - cartoon mini-story (currently available for negative emotions only) - comparisons with similar emotions (currently available for negative emotions only) - references to scientific sources for further reading

Tools

User Research

It is a fantastic platform for managing qualitative UX research. We all know how confusing and time-consuming conducting large-scale research campaigns can get, but UserBit keeps all the data in one place so everything is streamlined for your business.

Books

Interaction Design

Frequently dubbed as "the bible for interaction designers", Alan Cooper's book covers the fundamentals of UI design, breaks down essential terminologies, provides clear detail about practices to achieve the perfect UI, and covers the discipline at meticulous depth.

Article

User Research

This paper aims to present how you and your team can cross over the foggy process of synthesis and get the clear value of your design research.

Podcast

Design Career

A podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists and their stories about the movements they've built. Drawing on interviews with successful businesspeople conducted for his podcast (from which this book gets its name), Raz distills lessons for aspiring founders, including tips on how to nurture an idea and win funding, and dispels some myths.

Podcast

All things "Design"

The world's first podcast about design and an inquiry into the broader world of creative culture through wide-ranging conversations with designers, writers, artists, curators, musicians, and other luminaries of contemporary thought. Founded in 2005, Design Matters is considered to be the first and longest running podcast about design.