Top User Interface Design books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of User Interface Design

Understanding the concepts of User Interface Design starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Designing Interfaces

Designing good application interfaces isnâ??t easy now that companies need to create compelling, seamless user experiences across an exploding number of channels, screens, and contexts. In this updated third edition, youâ??ll learn how to navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices as design patterns, this best-selling book provides solutions to common design pr…

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The Elements of User Experience

Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it.
But creating the user experience …

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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect "design" as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don't live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has become widespread. About Face is the book that brought int…

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The Design of Everyday Things

The fault, argues this ingenious -- even liberating -- book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization.

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Design Systems: A Practical Guide to Creating Design Languages for Digital Products

Not all design systems are equally effective. Some can generate coherent user experiences, others produce confusing patchwork designs. Some inspire teams to contribute to them, others are neglected. Some get better with time, more cohesive and better functioning; others get worse, becoming bloated and cumbersome.

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A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field Or in the Making

“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the …

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In my 26 year career as a full stack developer I have been fortunate to develop websites for a large range of companies including Microsoft, Bank of Scotland, BBC, British Medical Association, Heriot-Watt University and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board. I also created websites for ten different agencies of the …

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Hello! I'm a passionate Frontend Engineer with a deep love for mentoring engineers and guiding them through their professional journeys. With extensive experience in front-end frameworks like React and Next.js, I enjoy sharing my knowledge and helping others excel in their careers. User Interface: https://www.frontprep.com/user-interface JavaScript Coding: https://www.frontprep.com/javascript-coding Conceptual: https://www.frontprep.com/conceptual

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Student or Junior UX Designer? I can help you refine your CV and portfolio, create new case studies to showcase your skills, and more generally help you grow as a designer. Additionally, I can share valuable insights and advice to help you navigate the workplace, whether you're just starting or …

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With over 12 years of professional experience, the last 7 working in Corporate America, I have experience as a Presales/Solutions Engineer, Project Manager, and Front-end developer. Throughout my career, I had the opportunity to mentor a diverse range of professionals in technology in the US, Europe and Brazil, especially people …

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Hi there, my name is Soroush Salehian, though I go by Rush. I am a leader, a coach, a mentor and a people person. About me: I have spent nearly 20 years as an engineer working on distributed, world class software that has been used by millions of users around …

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I have over 7+ years of experience as a UX Designer, 3+ years working within e-commerce spaces. Former UX at The Home Depot, Steelcase, and Meijer to name a few. I have over 3+ years of experience leading and teaching designers at the start of their career. I teach students …

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