UX Resources
- Hilary Nguyen (Unlicensed)
Accessibility
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Practical approaches to Universal Design for making your website or app accessible to everyone | |
Calculate the contrast ratio of text and background colors for WCAG compliance and assistance choosing more accessible color combinations | |
Free accessibility course for beginner and advanced web developers | |
A candid and practical handbook for designers in written and audio versions | |
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorblindly/floniaahmccleoclneebhhmnjgdfijgg/related | A Google Chrome extension that simulates colorblindness in your web browser, with 8 different settings |
Input your theme color to find the closet contrasting variations |
UI Design
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Apple’s first official design kit for Figma contains a comprehensive set of components, views, system interfaces, text styles, color styles, materials, and layout guides. All the core ingredients you need to quickly create highly realistic iOS and iPadOS apps designs. | |
A collection of bitesized UX interactions, curated to inspire and help you tune into what great UX looks like. Updated every few days. | |
A go-to platform of tools and resources for designers curated by Jess Eddy | |
Download 59 free Mockups design for your next projects - uistore.design | 600+ free handpicked design resources for Sketch, Figma, Webflow, Adobe XD, InVision Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator |
Typography
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Font Matrix – See & Pair Typefaces Like Never Before - Pimp my Type | The Font Matrix is a different way of seeing typefaces. Knowing about it earlier would have saved me a lot of time and guessing, when it comes to choosing, but especially to combining typefaces. It is based on the work of Indra Kupferschmid, and helped me to finally make more sense of type categorizations. |
https://typefully.com/DanHollick/the-role-of-x-height-in-typefaces-9p1b5IsMqv8X | Why are some typefaces harder to read than others at the same font-size? - by Dan Hollick |
UX Research
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A curated collection of 250+ resources & tools dedicated to user research to incorporate into your design practice | |
🧠Psychology of Design: 106 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX | 106 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX |
A free library of 1,500 research-based articles including guidelines and UX methods to help designers and teams improve user experiences | |
https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/the-beginners-guide-to-capturing-ux-requirements/ | Article describing the types of UX design requirements, how to capture them, and best practices |
Handcrafted “recipes” to get you started with UX - user research, design, usability testing, and more created by the UX team at the University of Arizona Libraries and members of the UX@UA community |