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What are your favourite resources to learn about UX/design? Doesn't have to be web-related.
Refactoring UI ( https://www.refactoringui.com ) is a fantastic resource, and we’ll worth the price in my opinion. I refer to it again and again. You can also find videos on YouTube of the author doing “live” UI redesigns/refactorings, and those are also very useful.
In many of the visual examples, the recommended approach looks worse than the criticized approach, and in some cases is much less parsable. A phrase like "Use more whitespace" isn't some simple-yet-woke millennial web mantra, it's just crappy advice, too vague to be useful and vague enough to be harmful.
Truly, some of these examples are the antithesis to good design. The chapters of the book seem highly opinionated and forcing a particular set of (unvalidated) opinions upon me instead of generalized, objectively applicable tools.
Refactoring UI ( https://www.refactoringui.com ) is a fantastic resource, and we’ll worth the price in my opinion. I refer to it again and again. You can also find videos on YouTube of the author doing “live” UI redesigns/refactorings, and those are also very useful.
Is this book the reason I see such bad UX trends across the web? In many of the visual examples, the recommended approach looks worse than the criticized approach, and in some cases is much less parsable. A phrase like "Use more whitespace" isn't some simple-yet-woke millennial web mantra, it's just crappy advice, too vague to be useful and vague enough to be harmful. Truly, some of these examples are the antithesis…
Refactoring UI ( https://www.refactoringui.com ) is a fantastic resource, and we’ll worth the price in my opinion. I refer to it again and again. You can also find videos on YouTube of the author doing “live” UI redesigns/refactorings, and those are also very useful.
Then there are the publications from people in the industry that can be interesting, but that's case by case. You'll have better results for specific problems like building and maintaining a design system.
You also have the UX collective (http://uxdesign.cc/) but their articles are hit or miss. Good ones at least provide references for you to explore deeper.