Resources for UX Designers

Articles

To get started in the field:

• What a UX Career Looks Like Today

• How to Become a UX Designer

• What Is a User Experience Designer? Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

To learn the basics of UX design:

• 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

• Design Patterns Articles and Videos from the Nielsen Norman Group

• Design Process Articles and Videos from the Nielsen Norman Group

• Web Usability Articles and Videos from the Nielsen Norman Group

Books

Books that give a great introduction into the field:

• UX for Beginners

• Don't Make Me Think (I think it's good practice for UX designers to know a bit about UX research.)

Books that provide great overviews of UX design and communicating UX design systems:

• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

• White Space Is Not Your Enemy

• Universal Principles of Design

• Universal Methods of Design

• Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

• Communicating Design

Books I haven't read, but they look like they would be useful:

• How to Get a UX Design Job

• Laws of UX

• A Project Guide to UX Design

• Solving Product Design Exercises

Websites

• Nielsen Norman Group (They've done all kinds of research on usability patterns and web design and usability testing, AND they offer all kinds of how-to articles and videos! I've always wanted to attend one of their conferences!)

• A List Apart

• Intechnic

• Boxes and Arrows

• UX Magazine

• UserTesting

• UX Matters