Getting Started in User Experience: Online UX Resources
In the last post, we looked at User Experience and Usability books to get started in User Experience. This post is a continuation, looking at UX sites and online resources that can help someone getting started in the field. The next post will continue with UX associations, training and certifications.
Online UX Resources
- Usability.gov (http://www.usability.gov/) – this is a good starting point covering the basics, templates and guidelines.
- Useit.com Alertbox (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/) – a bi-weekly column by Jakob Nielsen is a good way to keep up with current issues in web usability. The archives are a good place to dig up useful columns from the past.
- Luke W’s Writing (http://www.lukew.com/ff/) – apart from his own speaking and writing, Luke W does a great job posting notes from events, and conferences he attends.
- Smashing Magazine’s UX Design (http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/) – an online magazine for beginners and experienced practitioners. Disclaimer: I have been published on this site in the past.
- UX Booth (http://www.uxbooth.com/) – another online magazine to keep up to date.
- A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/) – dig into the design, process, and user science areas.
- UX Magazine (http://uxmag.com/) – yet another online UX magazine.
- Johnny Holland (http://johnnyholland.org/magazine/) – one more online magazine for your reading list.
- 52 Weeks of UX (http://52weeksofux.com/) – something new each week.
- UX Matters (http://uxmatters.com/) – enough said.
- Boxes and Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/) – get to this site after you get your feet wet.
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