Here’s a collection of books and other resources I’ve found useful in the practice of user experience (UX) design over the years. This is very much a work in progress. If you have suggestions, please let me know.
Updated 2019-02-23
Quick Reference
- A Good User Interface
- Accessibility
- Android Interface Design Guidelines
- Android Wear Interface Design Guidelines
- iOS Interface Design Guidelines
- Mapping Experiences (PDF Guide)
- Material Design
- Mobile Input Field Design Checklist
- styleguides.io
- Responsive Design
- Techniques
- Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes
- UI Design Patterns
Books
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Cooper, Alan)
- Communicating Design (Dan M. Brown)
- Don’t Make Me Think, 2nd Edition (Krug, Steven)
- Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (Interaction Design Foundation)
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers (Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo)
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld)
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Cooper, Alan)
- The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks, Frederick P.)
- Responsive Design Workflow (Stephen Hay)
- Thinking With Type (Ellen Lupton)
- Undercover UX Design (Cennydd Bowles, James Box)
- UX Pin Design Knowledge (a large collection of free ebooks)*
Stencils & Templates
- Axure Flat UI Kit
- Axureland
- EightShapes Unify
- Konigi for OmniGraffle
- Google Material Design Icons for Axure
- Nick Finck’s Visio Stencils for IAs
- Sketching Templates for Mobile (printable)
- UX Pin Design Knowledge: Libraries tab (a collection of design kits)*
- Yahoo Stencil Kit
* Contributed by Friederike Geiken
Nielsen Norman Group’s Checklist for Designing Mobile Input Fields is something to keep close at hand when creating mobile forms. I’ve added it to my “UX Bookshelf“.
goodui.org has 70 (so far) ideas for improving your interface. A lot of them are common knowledge, and many won’t be applicable to what you’re working on at this very moment–but it’s really great to have all of these on one page when you need a little nudge in the right direction. This link is going on my UX Bookshelf page.