Tools

UX Writing

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear

Podcast

All things "Design"

This podcast is about all the thought that goes into the things that no one thinks about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape the world. With over 400 million downloads, subscribing to 99% Invisible is a bit of a no brainer.

Video

Freelancing

Discussing the business side of small creative services, "Two Studio Heads Walk Into a Bar" is a YouTube design community. Live-streamed every alternate weekend, the channel covers themes ranging from "How to Triple a Client's Budget?" to "What's the Role of Portfolio in Business?"

Books

Psychology in Design

Hooked is a playbook for creating products customers obsess over. Eyal presents a four step “Hook Model,” that breeds habitual use. The author also explores phenomena he calls “hook cycles,” or the efforts companies make to lure clients. The book uses psychological principles to drive product design, and coaches readers on how to make products that are irresistible and become an everyday part of users’ routines. Eyal presents case studies and examples that demonstrate this practice, and each chapter ends with bulleted points that summarize the main takeaways. 

Article

Visual Design

Color is a matter of perception. Each color represents a different defined wavelength, yet each of us perceives color differently depending on our sense faculties. Furthermore, we all have different cultural or contextual associations that we tie to color.

Books

Interaction Design

The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how — and why — some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

Article

UX Writing

Spencer documents his journey and provide some of the fun facts he learned, a few of the struggles he encountered, and several links to articles in the UX writing rabbit holes he fell down.

Tools

UX Design

UserGuiding is a user onboarding software that every product designer needs to adopt, if they want their products to be adopted. UserGuiding enables you to educate and activate usersthroughout their user journeys with interactive UX elements, without any coding. With UserGuiding, you can: • Onboard new users with product tours, • Send in-app messages to improve user engagement, • Create onboarding checklists to help users progress, • Group users and offer content based on their segments, • and more!

Books

Visual Design

Excellent book as objective reading, practice and didactics on the understanding and application of inclusion in design solutions. Holmes also brings references to the origin of distorted biases that we carry structurally in our projects, and invites us to new approaches without utopias. A perfect balance between theory, cases, and how to put ideas into practice, this book helps you see a new way of thinking about accessibility.