Reading

UX Competencies

• 8 Competencies of UX Designers

Books

• 33 Books Every Designer Should Read
• Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Articles

• 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design - Refactoring UI - Medium Post
• Empty States in Design - Medium Post
• Generative vs. Evaluative Research
• Why Design Principles Shape Stronger Products
• Open Source Design Principles
• Design Better Forms
• Designing More Efficient Forms: Structure, Inputs, Labels and Actions
• 7 Usability Heuristics all Designers Should Know
• What is This Thing Called Design? A Primer on UX/UI Design
• Using Sketch for Responsive Web Design
• A List Apart: Responsive Web Design
• A List Apart: Organizing Mobile
• How to Conduct a Content Audit
• NN: When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods
• The 8 Competencies of User Experience
• Learning to See
• A Dao of Web Design

Coding

• CSS Tricks

Podcasts

• Freelance Transformation

Extra Resources

• Smashing Magazine - online magazine for professional web designers and developers
• Nielsen Norman Group - Veteran UX firm offering a huge collection of ‘evidence-based’ research, articles and reports.
• A List Apart - This popular site explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
• UXDesign.cc - incredibly useful site has a collection of links, blogs, books, methods, events and tools
• Medium - Embraced by the design community as blogging platform
• Sidebar - 5 curated design links every day.
• UsePanda - An easy way to keep up with industry news and inspiration from a variety of sources in one interface.
• Dear Designer - We’re a community here to help you figure out your next steps in becoming a better designer from folks a few steps ahead of you.
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World - YouTube Video