Tools, podcasts, books, and more that make me a finer interface, interaction, and experience designer.
I don't know
Design Principles is a website that collects design principles.
Atomic Habits is a book about building habits that sticks with you.
If This Then That is a website to automate and combine tasks in digital applications.
Better Stories is a website with methods for telling better stories.
Fluent Emoji is a GitHub repository with every emoji in the Microsoft Fluent design system.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia on the internet.
A List Apart is a website for people who make websites.
Proton is a Swiss company who make digital products that are open source, encrypted, and respect your privacy.
Fun, Inspiration
Color Match is a browser game where you match colors on time.
Bezier is a browser game that helps you learn the vector pen tool.
Not Boring Software is a company that build fun apps for boring routines.
Drams is a collection of Framer components inspired by Dieter Rams' design principles.
Conversations on Quality is a video series of interviews with designers, hosted by Linear.
Today In Design is a newsletter for designers, sent out every weekday.
Design Notes is a podcast about creative work.
User experience in LEGO interfaces is a web article that explores the various interfaces that exist in LEGO.
Ollie Hoff is a clever illustrator and graphic designer with impeccable style.
Pukka is tasty herbal tea.
Tip Top Software is a company that builds tip top software.
Headspace is an app for meditation and sleep.
Focus Traveller is an app to focus and get things done, with a traveler to make your own.
Teenage Engineering is a company who make hardware products for audio engineering.
Unhinged is an app to journal and track your mood from day to day.
Good Enough is a company who make software that is good enough.
Floor 796 is an animated scene showing the lives of characters from various works on the 796th floor of a huge space station.
The Hardest Working Font In Manhattan is a deep dive article about a font called Gorton.
Shift Happens is a book about typewriters and keyboards.
Hardware
Pen.
Paper.
iPad.
Apple Pencil.
Computer, like a MacBook.
Software, Apps, Web apps
Figma is a collaborative web application for wireframe and prototype design.
Frame0 is a MacOS, Windows, and Linux application to design wireframes.
Affinity Designer is a MacOS, Windows, and iPad application for raster and vector graphics.
Squoosh is a website for optimizing images.
Spline is a collaborative web application for 3D sculpting, modeling, and animation.
Cavalry is a Windows and MacOS application for 2D animation.
Rive is a collaborative web application for 2D animation.
Procreate is an iPad application for raster graphics.
Nomad Sculpt is an iPad application for 3D sculpting and modeling.
Raycast is a launcher application for MacOS and Windows.
CleanShot X is a screen capture application for MacOS.
Tabular is a web application to build responsive emails.
Rotato is a web application to generate 3D mockups with support for animation.
Learn
Visual Design is website book about how to improve your visual design.
Learning Through Play is a website with articles and guidelines for the importance of play, and being playful as a way to learn.
Smart Interface Design Patterns is a course with guidelines and best practices for common components in user interfaces.
Design System
Atomic Design is a free web book on how to build reusable parts, from small to large.
Design Systems Database is a directory of design systems.
Design Systems is a design systems publication by Figma.
Storybook is a web tool to present user interface components for development, testing, and documentation.
Design Thinking
The Core Model is a method for creating digital services and products.
Design Better is a podcast about product design.
99% Invisible is a podcast about how designers see the world.
Untools is a website to learn methods for practical problem solution.
The Design Sprint is a book on how to build and test a prototype in five days.
Product Thinking
Agile Manifesto is how you should develop software.
When Coffee and Kale Compete is a free PDF book on how to find and solve the core problem.
Shape Up is a free web book that makes you stop running in circles to ship work that matters.
User Interface
Practical UI (book)
Refactoring UI is a book about front-end design.
Blocks is a low fidelity wireframe design kit for Figma.
Mobbin is a website with design inspiration for apps and websites.
Layers is a website with design inspiration for apps and websites.
Complementary is a podcast about interface design.
Game User Interface Database is a website with a lot of examples of user interfaces from video games.
User Experience
Laws of UX is a book about the principles of user experience design.
Raut is a Norwegian newsletter about user experience.
Deceptive Patterns is a website that shame deceptive (dark) patterns in user experiences.
Test, Research, Analyse
Rocket Surgery Made Easy is a book about testing what you build with your users, to verify that what you make is usable for your users.
Don't Make Me Think is a book about building usable services and products on a digital screen.
Tally is a web tool for building forms to collect feedback from users.
A/B Test Design is a website with A/B test results from apps and websites.
Color
Inclusive Colors is a website that uses HSLuv to explore WCAG compatible accessible color combinations.
Icon, Logo, Illustration
Logo Design Love is a book with logo design.
Streamline icons is a collection of icon design guidelines.