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Peter Ramsey

64 UX case studies, highlighting why some designs work, and others fail horribly. Contextualised with practical UX psychology and cheatsheets.

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Adham Dannaway

Learn a logic-driven approach to design intuitive, accessible, and beautiful interfaces using quick and practical guidelines.

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Philip Davis

React, tailored to designers.

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David Travis

A UX practitioner demonstrates 8 core competencies. By assessing each team member's 'signature' in these eight areas, managers can build a fully rounded user experience team. This approach also helps identify the roles for which each team member is most suited alongside areas for individual development.

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Wizen Guides

Strategy founder guides for startups.

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Nate Baldwin

A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.

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Shay Ho

An exploration of the role of a Product Designer.

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Kyrillos Samaan

The best snackable UX & UI content from Instagram, curated in one feed.

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Readymag

Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him — “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?

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Robert Williams

Build a pipeline that finds you RFPs, jobs, and high-quality agency leads while you sleep.

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Eugene Belinski

Resolution by iOS device.

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Vernon Joyce

Anyone including non-designers can use this framework to analyse a product or service or analyse a piece of work for a potential client. You could even use this to review your own work as the tools and techniques I use leave little room for bias.

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Krisztina Szerovay

The main goal of Card Sorting is to improve a website’s or an application’s Information Architecture, to help designing how the information is organized and labelled.

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Benek Lisefski

I’m a one-person business who attracts agency-sized projects— when you demonstrate reliability, size is no obstacle.

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Aurora Harley

Expert reviews involve the analysis of a design by a UX expert with the goal of identifying usability problems and strengths.

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Kara Pernice

User interviews have become a popular technique for getting user feedback, mainly because they are fast and easy. Use them to learn about users’ perceptions of your design, not about its usability.

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Jeeyoung Jung

How to make themable, flexible, WCAG 2.1 compliant color ramps for a design system.

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Jon Hawkins

SEO can save your article engagement, here's how.

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uglybadger.com

Website ADA Compliance

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LottieFiles

A Lottie is a JSON-based animation file format that enables designers to ship animations on any platform as easily as shipping static assets. They are small files that work on any device and can scale up or down without pixelation.

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Vani Gupta Dandia

Learn everything marketing with examples, case-studies, mistakes & lessons from people who have been there and done that.

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Tomas Laurinavicius

What are the major differences between responsive and adaptive design? And can you improve your user experience by choosing the right web design style for your site? In this post, we’ll explore both of these questions and more.

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Nir Eyal

This essay is adapted from Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal.

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Krisztina Szerovay

Creating Empathy Maps is useful for synthesizing research data in order to better understand the users. Empathy Maps are great for creating Personas, identifying users with different mindsets.

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Matthew Encina

Project Management is process, & process is king. Welcome to a practical, proven way to manage profitable projects & create great experiences for your clients.

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Cantina

Gain a better understanding of your customers, see ways to align your organization with a defined experience strategy and identify opportunities for customer-centred growth and differentiation.

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Jocelyn K. Glei

Hurry Slowly is a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient through the simple act of slowing down.

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Ran Segall

Build Pixel-Perfect, High-Value Websites In A Matter Of Hours Without Coding

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Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers ...

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W3Schools

W3Schools' statistics may not be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using older computers. Anyway, data collected from W3Schools' log-files over many years clearly shows the long term trends.

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Richard Morton

Colour contrast between text and background is important on web pages. It affects some people’s ability to perceive the information (in other words to be able to receive the information visually).

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Tony Ulwick

The Jobs-to-be-Done Market Discovery Template is a framework that entrepreneurs, startups and managers can use to define a target market through a jobs-to-be-done lens. Using it mitigates the risk of targeting a phantom or overserved market as it directs the user to define a market around an underserved job.

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David Airey

Unlike other dry business books, this refreshing, straightforward guide from Logo Design Love author and international designer David Airey answers the questions all designers have when first starting out on their own: How do I find new clients? How much should I charge for my design work? When should I say no to a client? How do I handle difficult clients? What should I be sure to include in my contracts? Designers just starting out on their own will find this book invaluable in succeeding in today’s hyper-networked, global economy.

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Netflix

An in-depth look into computer design and modern contemporary design with some of the world's most highly regarded designers.

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Tom Stevenson

In this article, Tom Stevenson shares some of the tips and tricks he used to move his blog from a few people reading it every day, to over 2,000 today.

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Campaign Monitor

A complete breakdown of the CSS support for the most popular mobile, web and desktop email clients on the planet.

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Sara Soueidan

SVG graphics can be animated using animation elements. A lot of very impressive effects can be created, especially ones involving morphing and transforming shapes. The sky’s the limit.

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Shay Ho

Becoming a Senior Product Designer may be different from you think.

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James Clear

People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions – doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call.

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Issara Willenskomer

The following manifesto represents my answer to the question - "As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion to support usability?"

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Webflow

Learn web design, development, and even bold text — visually.

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Robert Mohns

Picking a font size for the web used to be really easy. 16 points and you’re done. You could feel confident that your content would be decently readable on PC or Mac, Netscape or IE. Man, have times changed.

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Sensinum

Proof of concept in software development is a controversial topic. The person that came up with a software idea is usually convinced of its relevance. And stakeholders usually don't want to spend time on something that is not even going to be included in the final product.

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Khoi Vinh

Wireframe reveals the stories behind user experience design and how it helps technology fit into our lives. It’s a unique, highly produced podcast for UX/UI designers, graphic designers, and the design-curious. Hosted by Khoi Vinh, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.

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Adobe

An overview of accessible PDFs and how to create them using Adobe products.

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Mike Monteiro

A design ethics and activism book by Mike Monteiro.

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Chris Do

Before you go hire a business coach or sales person, enrol in an online course, follow a get rich quick scheme, do this first. Warning, this is a long list of things to do. No easy answers, no quick fixes, but the bare minimum of what you need to do before looking for more help. Remember, people hire who they know, who they like and who they trust. So time to get known.

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Nathan Curtis

This article proposes a visual vocabulary of brands, systems, and products. The vocabulary denotes a design system’s varying outputs, documentation, adoption, and organizational boundaries. To conclude, the vocabulary is illustrated via complete, scenario-based example.

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Kip Knight

Not sure how to enable your employees to develop their career and professional capabilities over time? Here's an easy way to get started with a proven process that works regardless of the age or size of your company.

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Margo Aaron

Learn how to write better newsletter to improve your conversation rate.

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Various

Complete courses about the best tools and design systems. Prototype and build apps with React and Swift.

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Sheri Byrne-Haber

A candid and practical handbook for designers.

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Matt Cilderman

This kit is designed to launch you into the next level of inbound online marketing, complete from mindset to execution.

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Adam J. Kurtz

From the creative mind and heart of designer Adam J. Kurtz comes this upbeat rallying cry for creators of all stripes. Expanding on a series of popular essays, this handwritten and heartfelt book shares wisdom and empathy from one working artist to others in his signature tone: empathetic, vulnerable, inclusive, and conversational. Perforated tear-and-share pages make it easy to display the most crucial reminders or to pass a bit of advice on to someone who needs it.

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Taras Bakusevych

Visualize data in applications better with these tips.

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Josh Spector

Six interview questions that reveal more than a resume. Most job interviews are a waste of time. That's because most interview questions simply invite candidates to regurgitate their resume or offer generic answers about how their biggest weakness is that they "care too much" or "work too hard."

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Matt D. Smith

Shift Nudge is a new online course that teaches the intricate skills of designing visually beautiful interfaces, while balancing functionality and accessibility.

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Elliot Dahl

What's the 8-Point grid system and why you should use it in your designs.

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Nick Babich

In this article, we’ll define a general UX design process, as well as the order in which specific UX phases should be taken. We will also see what methods can be used by UX designers during each phase.

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Kayla Lee

If you want high-ticket clients, proposals make or break your business. Learn how to write a winner. Most of the time, people don't believe me when I tell them that it's 100% possible to close 80% (or more) of the deals you write proposals for.

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Jonathan Courtney

Lightning Design Jams: the exercise that will solve all of your problems

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Alexander Lindqvist

The power titles used to come with are slowly fading away in the modern business world. There is also a trend right now where companies and individuals create their own titles to hype their brands in marketing channels.

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Krisztina Szerovay

The goal of accessibility is to design & code digital products, services in a way that users with disabilities are able to use them. Your context or temporary condition and limitation also affect the way you use a product.

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Will Fanguy

Microinteractions play a large role in our digital lives, even if we don’t always notice them. From the time your phone’s alarm wakes you in the morning to liking your friends’ posts on Facebook to the notifications about new emails and Instagram messages—we encounter microinteractions all day.

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Alex Chen

Accessibility is the process of removing barriers to meet people’s access needs. It goes hand in hand with usability, affordability, availability, and overall good design. This article focuses specifically on visual barriers in typography.

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Jonathan Courtney

Learn everything you need to start running your own Design Sprints with confidence. From AJ&Smart and Jake Knapp.

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Alex Blumberg

Candid conversations with people who have done hard things: what worked, what didn't and why.

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Jyssica Schwartz

Entrepreneurs are always looking for ways to scale. If you aren't sure what that means, according to Fundable, here are the differences between growing your company and scaling your business: " Growing means you are adding resources at the same rate that you're adding revenue.

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Chris Coyier

The animation property in CSS can be used to animate many other CSS properties such as color, background-color, height, or width. Each animation needs to be defined with the @keyframes at-rule which is then called with the animation property.

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Simon Sinek

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion.

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Josh Muccio

Where real entrepreneurs pitch to real investors—for real money.

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Bill Su

As a free and powerful web analytics tool, Google Analytics is more popular than ever. In fact, W3Techs estimates that about 53% of all websites today uses it — and so should you.

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Debbie Millman

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.

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Stéphane Martin

Designers can have a more significant impact than pushing pixels and can help with the totality of what we produce. But this can only be achieved when product design is implemented from the start, at the strategy level.

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u/malchik23

The EXACT process used to scale SEO from 0 to 200k monthly traffic and beyond.

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Michael Bierut

The first monograph, design manual, and manifesto by Michael Bierut, one of the world’s most renowned graphic designers—a career retrospective that showcases more than thirty-five of his most noteworthy projects for clients as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Yale School of Architecture, the New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the New York Jets, and reflects eclectic enthusiasm and accessibility that has been the hallmark of his career.

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Sizle

Check out the list before for a curated collection of places to list and submit your startup for free.

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Krisztina Szerovay

While interviewing users may seem to be an easy task — “You are just asking some questions, and the interviewee gives some answers, and that’s it, right?” Well, not really.

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Shay Ho

Learn to create UI/IX Flows with Overflow to speed up the handoff process.

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Kassia St Clair

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.

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Krisztina Szerovay

Domain Experts / Subject Matter Experts / Industry Experts have invaluable knowledge that you can (and should) apply during your UX process. Domain expert involvement is not an alternative to UX research, and a domain expert is certainly neither a “user expert” nor a designer.

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W3Schools

CSS allows animation of HTML elements without using JavaScript or Flash!

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Abstract

A home for all things design process.

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Nathan Curtis

Everyday digital interfaces include a rich variety of images, visualizations, and other pictures. However, more than anything else, they are made of words. Oh so many words. As we equip teams to design and code usable, consistent, beautiful interfaces using systems, it’s essential that words depend on a strong foundation of typography.

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Zoltán Gócza and Zoltán Kollin

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.

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Atlassian

Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches. Instead of betting everything on a "big bang" launch, an agile team delivers work in small, but consumable, increments. Requirements, plans, and results are evaluated continuously so teams have a natural mechanism for responding to change quickly.

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Obys Agency

More complex work with typography is becoming popular in web and web design is becoming more like posters and graphic design. Check out these principles of working with typography.

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Shay Ho

Tips for working with Designers, from a Designer.

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Jon Yablonski

Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.

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Havana Nguyen

Could IX Flows be a key to smoother design/dev handoffs?

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u/digitalsathish

Some of the basic websites and technical SEO checklists that the author follows.

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Maxime Blondel

100 tools to launch & grow your start-up without web developer, without graphic designer and (almost) without money

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Bidsketch

Follow proven formulas to land more clients and simplify your proposal-writing process. Tested in the real world. Yours for free.

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Roman Mars

99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.

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John Warren Hanawalt

This is the third in a multi-part series on LGBTQ+ inclusion in design. Check out the first two articles on why LGBTQ+ inclusion in design matters and how bias manifests in design organizations.

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Chieh Huang

Think about the most tired you've ever been at work. It probably wasn't when you stayed late or came home from a road trip -- chances are it was when you had someone looking over your shoulder, watching your each and every move. "If we know that micromanagement isn't really effective, why do we do it?" asks entrepreneur Chieh Huang. In a funny talk packed with wisdom and humility, Huang shares the cure for micromanagement madness -- and how to foster innovation and happiness at work.

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Kara Pernice

Affinity diagramming has long been used in business to organize large sets of ideas into clusters. In UX, the method is used to organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops.

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Motion Array

Character animation is one of the trickiest techniques in After Effects. It’s become a very popular technique for all sorts of animations, especially things like explainer videos and shorts. But creating great character animation starts with great character rigging, and this is something that takes a little work.

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Benek Lisefski

Use this 4-part system to generate qualified inbound leads and never have to chase freelance work again.

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Greg Rog

Badass video courses on automating your business. No code.

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Krisztina Szerovay

Information Architects are the Architects of Understanding. They “help users to understand where they are, what they’ve found, what to expect, and what’s around.”

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Laura Martin

Type design may be intimidating to many, with terms such as leading, baseline, kerning, ascender, tail, and many more … The good news is, there are eight basic, universal typographical design elements: typeface, hierarchy, contrast, consistency, alignment, white space, and color. Even a basic understanding of each of these elements can revolutionize any design project.

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Disney Plus

An in-depth look at the history and creation of the Walt Disney theme parks around the world.

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Bree Chapin

When a customer uses a company's products and services to achieve a goal or need, they are going on a journey from point A to point Z. A customer journey map charts the path a user takes from the beginning of this journey to the satisfaction of that need.

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Oyetoke Tobi Emmanuel

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web.

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Ryan Waggoner

Use prospecting, promoting, networking, and thought leadership to never run out of clients.

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Chris Do

A rare opportunity to watch Chris Do speak in front of a live audience and learn how to speak the language of business and creativity in this comprehensive lecture series.

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Joe Leech

Joe Leech offers a rundown on his UX review process, sharing tips about analysing data and creating personas, and setting out findings in a form that benefits clients. From quick wins to workshops, there are gifts here everyone will be grateful for.

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Eric Ries

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

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Google

Primer is a free mobile app from Google that offers quick, easy-to-understand lessons for business owners and anyone looking to grow their business and digital marketing skills.

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Don Norman

The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable.

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Rob Fitzpatrick

How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you.

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Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

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StatCounter

This graph shows the stats of mobile screen resolutions worldwide based on over 10 billion monthly page views.

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Krisztina Szerovay

At the beginning of a UX research and design project a Stakeholder Interview should be conducted to find out the Business Goals, Existing Research including User Research, Competitors and Technological Limitations.

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David Travis

Learn how to build a lean usability test plan.

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Alina Arhipova

The article is devoted to the issue of using various colors in user interfaces and branding design, associations and the influence of color choice on user behavior.

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Austin Kleon

An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.

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Hoa Loranger

Planning a user test? Follow these 9 steps to make sure you are prepared.

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Chris Do

A rare opportunity to watch Chris speak in front of a live audience and learn how to tell your brand’s story through social media.

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Tim Harford

Challenges and problems can derail your creative process ... or they can make you more creative than ever. In the surprising story behind the best-selling solo piano album of all time, Tim Harford may just convince you of the advantages of having to work with a little mess.

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Daniel Sax

From Daniel Sax: "I think it was in the time of spring 2012, when I came across David Shiyang Liu's lovely piece of work about Ira Glass. It was the most inspiring and motivating video I had ever seen in my life. I watched it over and over again, listened to Ira Glass' voice, and told myself, that I am not the only person who is constantly disappointed about the gap between one's taste and one's skills. Later in 2012, I decided to do my own filmed version of Ira's interview - using my own language to tell his message. It took me about a year from concept to upload."

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Xavier Coiffard

A list of places where you can post your project/startup for free.

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Austin Knight

Lean UX emphasizes rapid, iterative UX phases, placing a heavy focus on team collaboration, user input, and measurable results.

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Atlassian

OKR is a goal setting methodology that is designed to push teams beyond their comfort zone. All teams can do OKRs – not just leadership teams!

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Carrie Webster

Information architecture is the process of categorizing and organizing information to create structure and meaning. This article explores not only the basics of information architecture, but also the broader view of the information age, how we use information and how it impacts our world and our lives.

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Various

Join thousands learning to build software. No coding required.

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GV

The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.

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Google Developers

Explore our structured learning paths to discover everything you need to know about building for the modern web.

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Mario Quezada

Quickly build carousels for Instagram in Adobe Illustrator.

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Susan Cain

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.