Resources

General

  • A List Apart - A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

Usability Websites

  • Usability Geek - created by Justin Mifsud as a means to bridge theory and academic research with practical and personal recommendations on how one can improve website usability.
  • User Interface Engineering - Founded by Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability.
  • User Testing - User Testing helps companies eliminate badf user experiences.
  • Baymard Institute - Baymard conducts original large-scale research studies on e-commerce usability.
  • Human Factors - UX training and certification

Accessibility Websites

  • Web AIM - Empowering organizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.
  • WAVE Web Accessibility Tool - evaluates your website for accessibility issues.
  • Color Contrast Checker - check the colors on your website to see if they pass the WCAG 2.0 level AA or AAA requirements.
  • Simply Accessible - a lean team of accessibility specialists, led by Derek Fetherstone, changing the perception of accessibility on the web.

User Experience Websites

  • UX Magazine - UX Magazine is a free community resource exploring all facets of experience design.
  • User Experience Magazine - User Experience magazine publishes a wide range of articles dealing with the broad field of usability and the user experience.
  • UX Movement - UX Movement is a user experience blog that shows how good and bad interface design practices affect user behavior.
  • UX Mastery - helping user experience professionals get started and get better.
  • UX Myths - UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.

Personal Blogs by Industry Leaders

Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman

Dubbed "The King of Web Standards", Jeffrey Zeldman publishes A List Apart, co-founded the multi-city web design conference An Event Apart; and founded Happy Cog™, a digital design studio.
Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm is a designer, author, and speaker who co-founded Dribbble, a community for designers, and SimpleBits, a tiny design studio. A long-time advocate of standards-based web design, Dan has worked with YouTube, Microsoft, Google, MTV, ESPN and others.
Luke Wroblewski

Luke Wroblewski

Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed and built software used by more than one billion people worldwide. Luke is the author of three popular Web design books (Mobile First, Web Form Design & Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability).
Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer, author of On Web Typography, co-founder of A Book Apart and founder of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces online.
Cameron Moll

Cameron Moll

Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, author and founder of Authentic Jobs, where companies and creative professionals meet to make a better web.
Mike Locke

Mike Locke

Michael Locke is a instructor, designer, brand developer and creative leader specializing in all areas of the web. He publishes a videoblog on many UX/UI topics.

Recommended Books

A Book Apart series

A Book Apart

A Book Apart publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics.
Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web (and Mobile) Usability.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.
Designing with Web Standards

Designing with Web Standards

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook.

Recommended Events/Conferences

Don't Make Me Think

An Event Apart

Three days of design, code, and content with the sharpest minds on the web.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Usability Week

All-day, immersive training courses teach practical skills and offer design recommendations that you can apply immediately.

Design Inspiration

  • Dribbble - a community of designers sharing their works-in-progress
  • Codrops - a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities.
  • Abduzeedo - a collection of visual inspiration and useful tutorials

Design & Development Tools

UX Tools

  • UX Kits - Beautiful deliverables for creative professionals by Eric Miller.

HTML/CSS Frameworks

Icons

Stock Photography

Colors

Plugins

Typography

Testing

Contracts/Legal

Miscellaneous

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