Tools, podcasts, books, and more that make me a finer interface, interaction, and experience designer.
I don't know yet
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 web 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.
Fun
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.
Inspiration
Ollie Hoff is a clever illustrator and graphic designer with an art direction that tickle my brain.
Pukka is delicious tea with fantastic branding.
Headspace is an app for meditation and sleep, built with high quality craft.
Focus Traveller is an app to focus and get things done, with a traveller to make your own.
Teenage Engineering is a company who make magnificent products for audio engineering.
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.
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.