Handgiving post for someone who wants to be a UX designer

Handgiving post for someone
who wants to be a UX designer.

So, stay with me for a moment

Recently I’ve been asked from where to begin learning UX design. So, I decided to share some useful tips, sources, links, etc. Briefly, here is stuff that works to me.

Some useful tips

– Read UX related stuff
– Learn UX related stuff
– Take UX related courses, classes, etc
– Organise knowledge base via Notion, Evernote, OneNote, etc
– Participate in hackathons
– Challenge your self in real-world projects
– Follow UX related stuff during your routine life
– Do UX activities for knowledge, not for portfolio
– Stay in touch with UX related people

THE POINT: Be a proactive person, not a sloth’s pussy (‘)

Searching phrases

Probably, the next useful step would be sharing some keywords, and phrases for searching.
I guess these ones would enough for beginning:

– What is UX design
– Differences between UX and UI
– Why UX is important for business
– UX Principles
– UX Patterns
– User Needs
– User Research
– Usability Evaluation
– Information Architecture
– Top Platforms for UX/UI designers
– Useful books for UX/UI designers
– Design Systems
– Top Design Systems

THE POINT: Store from 5 to 8 topic-related sources to compare, validate, and prove your vision (x) (x)

Design Portals

The next and most interesting part is design portals. You can find numerous different sources but the quality of content is the priority, so here are some industry leaders.

nngroup.com
The first home page for UX designer
interaction-design.org
The second home page for UX designer
uxdesign.cc
A super-competent UX portal
uxplanet.org
Core UX related stuff
www.uxbooth.com
Core UX related stuff
uxmag.com
Core UX related stuff
ux.stackexchange.com
Q&A portal
uxmyths.com
Top must-know
usabilitygeek.com
Usability related stuff
boxesandarrows.com
Great articles about interviewing
medium.com
Top Case Studies are here
intechnic.com
An additional UX pulp
littlebigdetails.com
UX/UI nerds blog
52weeksofux.com
Similar to previous
pttrns.com
Components, patterns, screens, examples, etc.
mobbin.design
Similar to previous
awwwards.com
About trends and mainstreams
designsystemsrepo.com
Design system repository, examples
material.io
No comments
design.apple.com
Similar to previous

THE POINT: Each day you should spend from 15 to 30 minutes on self-education (⋋_⋌)

My hand books

The final brick in a wall is source materials. So, I want to give you a few that inspired me the most and were read from cover to cover. But you will easily find a bunch of articles with different book lists on the topic.

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Less clicks more affords
Atomic Design by Brad Frost
From small to global and vice versa
The Form of the Book by Jan Tschichold
The composition is provable and readability principles
Less but Better by Dieter Rams
Module forms a quality level
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Don’t think how to open the door, just open
Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
Start from narrow move to wide
UX Storytellers: Connecting the Dots by multiple authors
Design life and establishing processes

Outcomes

In short, it takes a lot of work. A designer is a responsible profession that requires attention to both details and the vision of the global goals of the product/project. This is constant work on updating the knowledge base, and work on errors. It is an endless interaction between users, business and team. This is a way of livin that requires a certain restructuring of own behavior and mindset. The most important to keep in mind is to find the reason, not a problem.

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