Tools, podcasts, books, and more that make me a finer interface, interaction, and experience designer.
Tools, podcasts, books, and more that make me a finer interface, interaction, and experience designer.
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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
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 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 an illustrator and graphic designer.
Pukka is tasty herbal tea.
Tip Top Software 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 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.
Museum of All Things is an interactive museum for MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
Morten Kantsø is an illustrator.
Simple Bits is a tiny type foundry, goods shop, and design studio who make handmade letters and numbers.
IORAMA makes apps inspired by musical instruments and video games.
Indiana-Jonas is a cartoonist and game designer.
Mum Not Proud is an indie game development and digital studio.
Hardware
Hardware
Pen. I like Copic Multiliner SP 0.5.
Paper.
Tablet computer. I like iPad.
Stylus. I like Apple Pencil.
Computer. I like MacBook.
Software, Apps, Web apps
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.
Ghost House is a 2D design tool for animation that interpolates frames between one shape and another.
Learn
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
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
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.
Mindful Design is the responsible designer’s survival guide.
Product Thinking
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
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
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
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
Color
Inclusive Colors is a website that uses HSLuv to explore WCAG compatible accessible color combinations.
Icon, Logo, Illustration
Icon, Logo, Illustration
Logo Design Love is a book with logo design.
Streamline icons is a collection of icon design guidelines.
Nintendo Icons is a collection of all the Nintendo DS, 3DS, PSP, and PS Vita icons shown at the system's home screen.
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