To keep up with the latest trends and best practices of the field, here are some books, podcasts and websites that I’ve read or follow from time to time.
Books on my shelf:
- Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres
- Don’t Make Me Think Revisited, Steve Krug
- Contextual Design: Design for Life, Karen Holtzblatt, Hugh Beyer
- Understanding Your Users, K. Baxter, et al.
- The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
- Universal Methods of Design, Bella Martin & Bruce Hanington
- Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins, Annette Simmons
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
- Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown
Podcasts I subscribe to:
- UXPodcast, by Per Axbom and James Royal-Lawson
- Awkward Silences, by User Interviews
- Insights Unlocked, by UserTesting
- Design Better
- Learners Podcast
Websites I’ve bookmarked:
- 52 weeks of UX, Joshua Porter & Josh Brewer
- NN/g articles, Nielsen Norman Group
- Measuring U
- Smashing Magazine
- Digital.gov (formerly usability.gov)
- User Interviews Blog
Just for fun, browser extensions I have and love:
- WAVE accessibility checker
- WhatFont?
- ColorPick Eyedropper
- Clear Cache
- Awesome Screenshot
- LastPass Manager
