Resources
Usability and Interaction 'zines
- interactions magazine from ACM; This magazine includes timely articles, stories, and content related to the interactions between experiences, people, and technology.
- Boxes and Arrows
Boxes and Arrows is a peer-written journal devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business
- UX Magazine
UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time.UX Magazine is a collaborative publication by writers, technologists, designers, marketeers & business gurus from around the world.
- UXmatters
UXmatters is a non-profit web magazine volunteer-driven, nonprofit Web magazine that focuses on developing effective user experience (UX) strategies
- A List Apart
A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
- First Monday
First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.
- Adobe Design Center
Regularly updated articles on designers and their use of technology (particularly Adobe technology).
Design 'zines
- Smashing Magazine
This 'zine's aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development; regularly updated with lots of tutorials and high quality downloads.
- Core 77
News site for design, with an emphasis on industrial and product design.
Usability, Interface and Interaction Design Sites
- Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug's site with opinionated essays
- Designing Interfaces
Designing Interfaces is an online book constructed using excerpts from O’Reilly’s Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design.
- useit.com
useit.com is the website of Jakob Nielsen, a leading expert on usability. Check out the Alertbox section, a bi-weekly column about current issues on usability.
- Usability.gov
Usability.gov is the primary government source for usability and user-centered design by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You can read about the basics of usability and usability methods on the site.
Web Pattern Archives
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Designing Interfaces is site for the book by Jennifer Tidwell about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.
- Welie.com
Welie.com’s Interaction Design Pattern Library shares design patterns in interaction design. You can find design patterns such as Breadcrumbs, Tabs, and Comment Box as part of the library.
- UI-patterns
UI-Patterns.com is a user-created library of uploaded screenshots of solutions to common web interface design problems.
- UI Pattern Factory
Another user-created library using FLickr.
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
The Yahoo! Developer Network has a growing design pattern library called Yahoo! Design Pattern Library that showcases common design patterns in User Interface design.
- Pattern Tap
Not so much a set of patterns as solutions, but a library of patterns for inspiration.
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