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