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(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute) For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world, and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips. For tools, the best is paper prototypi…
(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute) For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world, and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips. For tools, the best is paper prototypi…
[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/don_norman_on_design_and_emotion/u...
Personally, I'm mostly using the `material-ui`[2] package for React use, but you'll find other material based libraries for any number of frameworks and platforms. In general, I've been sticking to the overall guidelines with a few tweaks, and the responses in general for the application I'm currently working on have been incredibly positive.
[1] https://material.io/design/ [2] https://material-ui.com/
(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute) For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world, and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips. For tools, the best is paper prototypi…
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Don Norman's book The Design of Everyday Things has indeed altered how I look at the world from a design perspective. It teaches you design awareness, and you'll find yourself noticing and understanding design elements all around you, that you didn't before. Even though it might seem a little old, the information presented in there is timeless, so I highly recommend it as well. It is in fact the first book I would su…
That book made me start getting annoyed at bad design like Norman Doors (doors that require a "push" or "pull" label instead of being intuitive).
https://refactoringui.com/ Just came out yesterday, doesn't necessarily teach 'from scratch' UI, but a great aide.
I saw this advertised on product hunt. Apparently it's a good thing that you can read it in 1.5hrs. Maybe but not with a $79 price tag for a PDF.
You can get a lot of his tips for free here in this curated Twitter Moment: https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832
Ways to Connect: On Interface and Product Design, Ryan Singer
Something on color theory
Design language books (Bauhaus, etc)
The entire Google design team has quite a few open resources: https://material.io/design/ and https://design.google
https://refactoringui.com/ Just came out yesterday, doesn't necessarily teach 'from scratch' UI, but a great aide.
I saw this advertised on product hunt. Apparently it's a good thing that you can read it in 1.5hrs. Maybe but not with a $79 price tag for a PDF.
I'm mostly a backend guy who does the Bootstrap thing. The techniques and examples in the content are gold for someone like me.
(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute) For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world, and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips. For tools, the best is paper prototypi…
Its a short and easy 2 hour read but the level of paradigm change you receive if you're being exposed to hci for the first time is immense.
I even found its thinking useful from the developer side of things, as in, writing software libraries that were obvious and easy to use.