10 Excellent User Experience Resources

posted under  on Jan 26th, 2010 with 5 Comments

26 Jan

This is why we've gathered 10 Excellent User Experience Resources that are sure to help you on your next project! If we've missed any, please share with us! UX Booth The UX Booth is a blog dedicated to the User Experience Community. It produces full of useful articles and resources on usability on a regular basis. It's main focus for articles are user experience, and interaction design. InspireUX InspireUX is a great source of UX inspiration with worthy quotations from a variety of leaders in the technological world. This blog features User Experience quotes from practitioners such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and more! All the quotes are always relating to user experience (UX), so you can get a nice kick out of reading them at the same time. UX Magazine UX Magazine was created and developed to house a central place where designers can go and discuss quality tips that enhance user experience. UsabilityPost The Usability Post is a blog about design mainly not about what it looks like, but how a design works. The Usability Post produces relevant resources, tips and insights into good design in order to help you make great products. Signal vs. Noise Signal vs. Noise is the blog of 37signals (a leading developer in tools for designers). Because of their experience with building applications such as BaseCamp and BackPack, these designers surely know about some of the best practices in User Experience. Adaptive Path Blog Adaptive Path creates user driven products that deliver great experiences. Their blog allows them to share what they’ve learned with others. Konigi Tips, tools and techniques that allow you to become a better User Experience designer. Knoigi monitors innovative designers, sites, and applications so that their able to have a good idea of what User Experience techniques work best. Then they blog about it and share it with other designers. Functioning Form Functioning Form is a blog about interface design. That is to say, it is where art and technology emerge as experience, where message and medium meld, and where interactions are useful, usable, and enjoyable. Boxes and Arrows Boxes and Arrows is great resource focused on the practice, innovation, and discussion of design (most importantly, User Experience); topics also include tips on graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business.It started in 2001, and since then it’s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way. UIE Brain Sparks User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability that was formed in 1988. They are not only experts in their niche, but they share their experiences and valuable knowledge with others.

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5 CommentsThoughts from the Community

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  • Jon Follett said Jan 30th, 2010
  • This list is great start. would also recommend 
    http://www.uxmatters.com
     as resource for articles on usability, user interface design, and general user experience topics. Full disclosure: I'm columnist for them.
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  • Kyle B. said Jan 28th, 2010
  • Awesome resources, thanks for the tip's
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  • Ray Mercer said Jan 28th, 2010
  • nice post. I'm pondering on what colors and elements to use on my next desktop app. This should help. thanks
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  • LinktoWebDzign said Jan 27th, 2010
  • One of the best lists for user i've seen in while. lovely site by the way...
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