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
  • WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
  • The Paciello Group’s Colour Contrast Checker
• 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
  • Am I Responsive?
  • This is Responsive (patterns)
  • Tablesaw (flexible tool for responsive tables)
• Techniques
  • Core Model
  • Top Task Analysis
• 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