For schools, take a look at https://www.hyperisland.com/ (various locations) and http://thenewdigitalschool.com/ (Portugal)
Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#152(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…
Any insight into the trend of UX designer --> Product designer? I see this transition in titles all over the place at big SF companies like Adobe, which is disheartening because now I'm expected to have a dribblesque visual/graphic design skill set (least interesting aspect of design imo) with less emphasis on design thinking, more on delivering assets, front-end code and letting UX researchers focus on generative (m…
> the flashy, material designed dribble UI polish that is largely an exercise in branding, typography, and basic color theory than actually understanding user needs through traditional UX methods based on best practices.
Material Design is especially bad on just about every level, including taste and animation accessibility. (People should do more research on animation accessibility before making things move on the page.)
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#153I recently read Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter - Had some great practical advice and examples from Basecamp, Trello , Mailchimp e.t.c Great balance of theory and practical tidbits
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
And tea pots that leak! It was supposed to do one thing ...
How about kettles? A container that whistles when your water boils. The never-ending list of errors: handles that are in the wrong place, whistles that don't whistle, underside heat distribution plates that come apart, lids that become wedged tight. After the centuries we've had to perfect kettles, you'd think a reliable design could have emerged by now.
Can’t wait till we can mass produce open sourced objects. E.g. 3D print on demand a kettle
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about kettles? A container that whistles when your water boils. The never-ending list of errors: handles that are in the wrong place, whistles that don't whistle, underside heat distribution plates that come apart, lids that become wedged tight. After the centuries we've had to perfect kettles, you'd think a reliable design could have emerged by now.
Can’t wait till we can mass produce open sourced objects. E.g. 3D print on demand a kettle
I'd like to pre-order! Make mine this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#156I had the goal of learning UX basics in as little time as possible.
I took a 2 hour General Assembly course and found it incredibly useful - it sounds crazy but I feel like I learned 50% of what I needed to know about UX in just those 2 hours.
I asked some UX peeps what books they recommended and I purchased 2 and never read a single page (they were The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Sprint by Google Ventures).
For web app UX, I found this 30 minute video extremely useful (great to see how a non-design person might make something, then how that same non-design person can change the primitive app they made into something very nice!).
Design for Non-Designers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21byk2WWz3k
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#157I had the goal of learning UX basics in as little time as possible. I took a 2 hour General Assembly course and found it incredibly useful - it sounds crazy but I feel like I learned 50% of what I needed to know about UX in just those 2 hours. I asked some UX peeps what books they recommended and I purchased 2 and never read a single page (they were The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Sprint by Google Ventures). For we…
What was the course you're referencing in GA? Was it free?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#158Very late, but Designing for the Digital Age - Kim Goodwin
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Digital-Age-Human-Centered-...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#159I had the goal of learning UX basics in as little time as possible. I took a 2 hour General Assembly course and found it incredibly useful - it sounds crazy but I feel like I learned 50% of what I needed to know about UX in just those 2 hours. I asked some UX peeps what books they recommended and I purchased 2 and never read a single page (they were The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Sprint by Google Ventures). For we…
What was the course you're referencing in GA? Was it free?
I just checked, and when I did it it was free, although I think that's because GA were on a marketing blitz (I think their 2 hour courses are typically ~$80 - money extremely well spent in this case).
This is the link to the course; it was called 'Intro to UX Design'
https://generalassemb.ly/education/intro-to-ux-design-247ed3...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
#160(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…
Any insight into the trend of UX designer --> Product designer? I see this transition in titles all over the place at big SF companies like Adobe, which is disheartening because now I'm expected to have a dribblesque visual/graphic design skill set (least interesting aspect of design imo) with less emphasis on design thinking, more on delivering assets, front-end code and letting UX researchers focus on generative (m…
Getting a PhD would require doing a lot of scientific research, but it sounds to me that you may be more interested in doing product innovation.
Having said that, I know folks with master's degrees and PhD degrees who are great UX and product designers doing cool work on autonomous vehicles, drones, etc, so the path really depends on what you're most interested in as well as how lucky you are in finding a good match.