Tools

Portfolio

Webflow is a website building tool, used by more than 3,500,000 designers and teams to create, collaborate on, and scale beautiful websites in a completely visual canvas — no coding needed. The Webflow Designer lets you build any website you can imagine with the full power of HTML, CSS, and Javascript in a visual canvas. Offering a robust learning platform for beginners, Webflow has a library of 400+ free lessons covering everything from layout and typography to interactions and 3D transforms.

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User Research

We often hear that personas are out-of-date, and such a trending framework as jobs-to-be-done is much better. However, there are no bad or good instruments. When used right, any tool can be fruitful. This article is not about new things; it’s about going back to the roots.

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UX Writing

Good content design practice ensures that content is accurate, relevant, current and optimised both for users and search engines. Watch Trisha Doyle, Head of Content Design at GDS, explain more.

Tools

Prototyping

Framer is a tool that will let you design and publish websites faster than ever before. No more complicated workflows. Just design and publish. That’s it. Enabling integrations with multiple tools, a CMS to generate pages, and so much more, Framer is a powerful tool to create websites.

Books

Interaction Design

A solid overview of the history and current landscape of design - from user interface, interaction design and user experience, to product design and rapid prototyping. An inspiring read for novices and veterans alike, this book paints a rich picture of interaction design practice, how it came about, what it's useful for, and how to do it.

Books

Storytelling for Designers

Design Is Storytelling explores the psychology of visual perception from a narrative point of view. Presenting dozens of tools and concepts in a lively, visual manner, this book will help any designer amplify the narrative power of their work. Use this book to stir emotions, build empathy, articulate values and convey action; to construct narrative arcs and create paths through space; integrate form and language; evaluate a project’s storytelling power; and to write and deliver strong narratives.

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Psychology in Design

These are not the holy grail (contrary to popular belief :))

Tools

Portfolio

Industry-standard practice briefs for designers to build out a portfolio and develop their design skills.

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Usability Testing

UX researchers use this popular observational methodology to uncover problems and opportunities in designs.