📱 User Experience Design Starter Kit
Welcome to the Hack the Gap Starter Kit for User Experience Design! This guide is for current and future User Experience (UX) professionals, organizations and individuals who generally want to learn about UX & Human-Centered Design practices.
📖 Background
The way people experience software is important. The look, the feel, how it flows. Many of these things are shaped by people who work in user experience, product, and design.
"User experience" encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products.
Some terms you may hear when describing these types of roles are User Experience (UX), Human Experience (HX), User Interface (UI), Graphic Design, Strategy, and Product Management. UX/UI design is often lumped together, but there is a key difference: While UI designers develop the basic design elements of a platform, UX designers develop how people (sometimes called users) interact with the platform, and what they take from that experience.
📌 Get Started
You don’t know where to start, and you have curiosity in design, process, or making software that has a better experience.
The difference between UX and UI explained using cereal
A Dummies Guide to UX Basics
🌱 Grow Your Skills
Develop your knowledge and skills in UX. Check out our favorite free resources!
Nielson Norman Group
Resources and insights on usability, user experience (UX) research, and design best practices for enhancing digital products and services.
HX: Human Experience
An approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.
UX Planet
Articles and resources focused on user experience (UX) design, offering guidance and trends for professionals and enthusiasts in the field.
UX Booth
Articles, insights, and resources for professionals looking to enhance digital product usability and satisfaction.
💞 Our Favorite Tools
Mural is a digital collaboration tool that enables remote and hybrid teams to brainstorm, plan, and execute projects on a shared virtual canvas.
Figma is a collaborative interface design tool that allows teams to create, share, and iterate on interactive prototypes and design elements in real-time.
Sketch is a vector graphics editor for macOS, used primarily for UI/UX design, providing powerful tools for creating and prototyping digital interfaces.
✨ Develop A Better Workflow
6 Figma rules to keep your work clean
Share and engage with the Design Sprint Community
UI (User Interfaces) - Smashing Magazine
UX Design - Smashing Magazine
The most insightful stories about UX - Medium
UX Collective
Insights on Usability, Design, and User Experience
Usability Geek - Usability Geek
The Hipper Element
UX/UI Resource Hub Articles - A List Apart
UX Movement
UXPin | UI Design and Prototyping Tool
UX Magazine | The Community Of Over 515,000
🖌️ Hone Your Design Skills
Daily UI Design Challenge, Inspiration, and Resources
FakeClients - Design Brief Generator - Generate Briefs & Prompts
Logo Challenges
Design Buddies
6 Design Challenges For You and Your Team | Vectornator Blog
The Daily Logo Challenge
⚙️ Tools & Resources
From color palette generators to templates, there’s lots of resources to help you get started. Checkout some of our favorites below and find what works best for you.
🌅 Be Inspired
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel! Check out what other designers are doing and learn valuable techniques to take your skills to the next level.
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CharliMarieTV
Hey there! I’m Charli, and I’m a web & graphic designer who’s passionate about helping creative professionals increase their worth by improving their craft and process.
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Design Course
Hi, I'm Gary. I've created close to 100 courses from graphic design to advanced frontend development.
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Dansky
Helping designers level-up their skills with tutorials and sarcasm.
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Caler Edwards
Caler Edwards is a Full Stack Designer making videos to help and inspire creatives. This is a place to learn and be inspired about Web Design, Webflow and UI/UX Design.
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Jesse Showalter
Jesse Showalter shares Digital Design & Web Development videos each week focusing on tools, techniques, projects, and more to help creative people make amazing things.
