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UX Learning Resources and Design Guidelines
UX laws, research methods, accessibility standards, writing guides and the public design systems worth studying. Use them to back a decision with evidence, check a guideline before a review, or fill a gap in your fundamentals.
Design Systems: Guidelines and References
Public design systems, platform guidelines and component research. Check them before you name, spec or design a component, and whenever you design for a native platform.
m3.material.io
Google's design system, now with M3 Expressive. Reference for components, color roles, motion and Android patterns.
developer.apple.com
Apple's official guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS. Check it before designing any native Apple experience.
atlassian.design
Atlassian's foundations, components and content guidelines. A strong reference for dense, collaborative SaaS interfaces.
carbondesignsystem.com
IBM's open-source system with deep usage guidance, data viz and Carbon for AI patterns for chat and agent experiences.
component.gallery
60 components compared across 95 design systems, with 2,600+ examples. Research naming and patterns before you spec one.
designsystems.surf
Searchable gallery of real design systems, components and foundations, plus articles. Pro adds templates and audit tools.
UX Fundamentals: Laws, Principles and Patterns
UX laws, design principles, dark pattern references and responsive design basics. Use them to explain and defend design decisions with shared, well-known reasoning.
lawsofux.com
Jon Yablonski's collection of UX laws and heuristics, each with related articles.
uxtools.co
A one-stop shop for UX videos, challenges, tool comparisons and the yearly design tools survey.
principles.design
An open collection of design principles from companies and thinkers, for understanding design in depth.
deceptive.design
Harry Brignull's catalogue of dark patterns, the laws against them and enforcement cases. Use it to spot and push back on manipulative flows.
web.dev
Google's free course by Jeremy Keith on responsive layout, type, images and theming. Solid grounding before designing across breakpoints.
UX Case Studies and Product Teardowns
Product teardowns, UX audits and process case studies. Learn how specific products work and why, and benchmark your own case study write-ups.
goodux.appcues.com
Product UX teardowns plus the Behind the Experience podcast, for telling good UX from bad.
growth.design
Product psychology tips and insights told through comic-style case studies.
casestudy.club
Curated UX and product design case studies with a weekly newsletter. Use it to benchmark process write-ups and portfolios.
UX Research Methods and Usability Guides
Research-backed articles, field guides and usability studies. Use them to plan interviews and tests, run continuous discovery and ground decisions in evidence.
nngroup.com
The best source to learn UX from: research-backed articles every week, plus paid training.
userinterviews.com
User Interviews' 10-module guide to planning, recruiting, running, synthesizing and reporting user research.
baymard.com
Large-scale usability research on e-commerce, checkout and mobile UX. Free articles; paid benchmarks and guidelines for audits.
producttalk.org
Teresa Torres on continuous discovery, customer interviews and opportunity solution trees. Reach for it when setting up discovery.
Accessibility Guidelines and Checklists
Plain-language accessibility checklists, the WCAG 2.2 reference and testing guidance. Use them to design and review for compliance, not only to check contrast.
a11yproject.com
Community-run accessibility checklist, patterns and resources in plain language. A fast first stop for a11y questions.
w3.org
W3C's filterable list of every WCAG 2.2 success criterion with techniques. The source of truth for compliance checks.
webaim.org
Accessibility nonprofit with practical articles, a contrast checker and the WAVE evaluator. Use it to test and explain issues.
UX Writing and Content Style Guides
Public writing and content style guides from established organizations. Use them as a template when you define voice, tone and microcopy standards for a product.
styleguide.mailchimp.com
Mailchimp's public voice, tone and writing guide. A proven template when defining product copy standards.
learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft's guide to clear, friendly UI text, from error messages and word choice to bias-free language.
guidance.publishing.service.gov.uk
The UK government's content design and plain-English guidance. A benchmark for writing to real user needs.
Product Design Podcasts and Video
Interviews with working product designers and design leaders on craft, teams and AI workflows. Good listening between focused work sessions.
dive.club
Ridd's weekly interviews with top product designers on craft, AI workflows and design engineering.
designbetterpodcast.com
Weekly podcast since 2017 with design leaders on creativity, teams and building with AI.
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