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125+ resources and tools are listed in 5 categories: UX Research, UX/UI Design, Optimization, UX Career, UX Training, UX Events & UX Books

** UX Research **

Information Architecture

Online card sorting tool preferred by information architects.

Usability testing tool you can use to test your IA without visual distractions.

Free card sorting application for Mac OS X

Design Research

Build mobile friendly, next-generation online forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages.

User Interviews is the fastest way to recruit participants for product tests and market research.

Webnographer helps companies understand User Behaviour on websites

Slip into your customers’ shoes, research customer experience of the entire customer journey in real-time — across all online and offline channels.

Good solution for for mobile diaries, insight communities and bulletin boards.

What is Netnography? In Netnography, online observations and interactions are valued as a cultural reflection.

Usability Test

Usability testing software developed by TechSmith.

Loop11 is a website user testing tool that enables you to identify navigational and usability issues of any website.

Get videos of real people speaking their thoughts as they use websites, mobile apps and prototypes.

Optimize the clarity of your designs by measuring people’s first impressions.

Guerrilla usability testing on the Mac made easy

Mr. Tappy — Mobile UX research made easy.

Fast User Testing: Five Second Test, Click Test and Nav Flow Test

Best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.

** UX/UI Design **

Sketching

Ready to print device templates for UI & UX designers.

Responsive Sketchsheets from ZURB.

Wireframe sketch sheets for web designers

Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique.

Wireframe

Online Mockup, Wireframe & UI Prototyping tool for creating high fidelity, resolution independent SVG mockups and wireframes.

UX Design & Wireframing Tools As Beautiful As Your Work

A wireframing and mock up tool with a high focus on usability.

Sketch — Professional Digital Design for Mac

Prototyping

InVision transform your Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) designs into clickable, interactive Prototypes and Mockups.

Create fully-interactive high-fidelity prototypes that look and work exactly like your app should.

Pixate generates 100% native prototypes, so you can experience your ideas on device as if they’re completely real.

Design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop or the web

Turn sketches, mockups and designs into web, iPhone, iOS, Android and Apple Watch app prototypes.

Napkee makes your Balsamiq Mockups come alive. Import a BMML and export to web or flex code in a few clicks.

UI designer need rapid, easy-to-learn, familiar tools to animate static designs. This article shows how to use Apple Keynote to achieve just that.

Style Guides / Design Guides

Patternry makes it simple to build style guides, design pattern libraries, complete front-end resources or anything in between.

Software for brand style guides, design workflows & visual collaboration.

Inspiration

Designers’ Secret Source: all the design inspiration you need.

Panda makes it easy for designers, developers and entrepreneurs to discover great useful content.

Daily dose of design inspiration.

The 5 best design links, every day

Useful resources directly to your inbox. Your weekly UX Reading List with interesting resources, published every Friday and sent directly to your inbox.

Get a hand picked list of the best user experience design links every week.

Showcase and discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries

Dribbble is show and tell for designers.

MaterialUp curates the best of Material Design inspiration, tools and freebies

Pttrns is the finest collection of design patterns, resources and inspiration.

User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers

The 75+ GoodUI ideas that they are about to show you, are being actively A/B tested.

Pattern Tap is ZURB’s gallery of specific design and interaction patterns meant to inspire your design work.

A video gallery for mobile onboarding design inspiration

Design Work

UI design plugins for Sketch and Photoshop powered by real data

** Evaluation/Checklists/Optimization **

Heuristics/Checklists

Jakob Nielsen’s 10 general principles for interaction design.

UX Check is a Chrome Extension that helps you identify usability issues through a heuristic evaluation.

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice.

HCI Guidelines

Provides guidelines for designing the user interface of an iOS app.

Design basics, guidelines and templates for developers and designers to invent, plan, and build UWP app.

We challenged ourselves to create a visual language for our users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science. This is material design.

Questionnaires/UX Scoring

Collect user feedback and improve your websites, apps and emails with Usabilla’s Voice of Customer Solutions.

Choosing the right UX metrics for your product can be a tough challenge. The HEART framework by Google can help you proceed with confidence.

SUS is technology independent and has since been tested on hardware, consumer software, websites, cell-phones, IVRs and even the yellow-pages. It has become an industry standard with references in over 600 publications.

The Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) is a tool developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland at College Park.

The SUPR-Q is a Rating Scale to Measure perceptions of Usability, Trust, Credibility, Appearance and Loyalty for Websites.

Extensive research has shown that your Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, acts as a leading indicator of growth

A/B Test / Landing Page / Lead Generation

Enterprise-level A/B testing and personalization for the web and mobile apps.

Unbounce lets marketers build, publish and test landing pages without IT or software. A/B testing and lead gen make it a powerful marketing tool.

SumoMe is a suite of free tools that can be used to grow website’s traffic.

Convert more visitors into customers with Hello Bar.

Analytics/Mouse Tracking

Get the data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions with Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is filled with very useful information for UX Strategists defining a baseline and tracking trends in order to define goals, strategies, and concepts for a brighter tomorrow.

See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

Find out by seeing how users click and scroll through your website

Appsee supplies a crystal clear, visual picture of your users’ experiences from beginning to end on mobile devices.

** UX Career **

Portfolio tips for UX professionals

** UX Training **

Online Traning

Learn User Experience (UX) and Design from experts.

Learn UI/UX design through hands-on projects and 1-on-1 mentorship from expert designers. Add design to your resume and level up your career.

Skillshare is a learning community for creators. Anyone can take an online class, watch video lessons, create projects, and even teach a class themselves.

Learn how to design great user experiences — Design that delights users

Take free and premium UX courses from 100+ instructors

Learn the key principles and most powerful techniques. Build your skills and expand your knowledge with expert-led training.

We help UX professionals get started and get better.

Get a course or nanodegree including UX courses.

An easy to follow design course for people who do amazing things.

Joel Marsh created an User Experience course including 31 daily lessons.

Learn how to apply user-centered design principles to improve your website and mobile app design.

In Person Training

NN/g UX Certification both provides a solid foundation and enhances existing knowledge and practical skills in UX design and research.

The User Experience Design Immersive program is crafted by top practitioners in the field, with a specific focus on helping you transition into a UX design career.

HFI offers a variety of UX training courses and two certification tracks for both new and advanced practitioners.

They love brain science, research, and economics.

Camp

For two days UXcamp Europe will host around 500 international UX professionals from diverse UX disciplines.

** UX Events **

Here’s our list of user experience conferences that can’t be missed in 2016!

Upcoming user experience (UX) conferences including design, usability and UI.

A unique UX Conference experience in the most authentic city, İstanbul, Turkey.

UX London. 3 days of inspiration for UX designers

4 days of training and inspiration for UX Pros.

It’s its application-oriented, economic and holistic approach that makes the World Usability Congress one of a kind on a global scale.

501 videos for designers from 67 conferences.

** UX Books **

Unequaled user experience expertise, in print and in person

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

Steve Krug spells out a streamlined approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own Web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don’t Make Me Think, “It’s not rocket surgery”.)

Why do people decide to buy a product online? Register at your Web site? Trust the information you provide? Neuro Web Design applies the research on motivation, decision making, and neuroscience to the design of Web sites.

http://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Web-Design-Makes-Click/dp/0321603605/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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