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u/granolatron · 9 pointsr/userexperience

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design is a great primer, with lots of "this is how you do it" step-by-step for each step of the process.

Example: http://imgur.com/Sz9j8wR

u/mcdronkz · 8 pointsr/web_design

It's not the advice you are looking for, but I can't stress it enough: design is about problem solving, rather than pure aesthetics.

Sure, making things look pretty is important. However, making your design understandable and easy to use is even more important. It's probably what you should focus on.

You are designing something for real human beings. Your design should solve a real problem in the most elegant way. How? That's something I can't explain in a single comment.

This video series explains it really well. It's not about web applications, but that doesn't matter. The message is the same. You prefer reading? This and this book do an extremely good job of explaining how to design things.

Also, this article explains the point I'm trying to make far better than I ever could. Good luck!

u/Racoonie · 8 pointsr/web_design

https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/1118766571

u/snortlepop · 6 pointsr/LucidDreaming

Maybe look up some info on video-game design and augmented reality. It's all created by human programmers (ignoring AI in recent years), and if someone else can create an entire virtual world from scratch, so you can you! Even better, you don't have to "reinvent the wheel" when it comes to dreams. You can even cut out the death-march of constantly trying to improve graphics software/hardware (unless you really want to spend a few months trying to get rain wetness to "look right") and skip straight to the cool stuff.

I'd recommend starting with something easy and objective, like a Diegetic Interface rather than trying for something subjective which only you can see. Do you have a favorite interface from a video-game that you like? You can image it appearing on a clear piece of glass in front of you. Later on you can try [wearing] the piece of glass and have yourself a old fashioned HUD. Mess around with different ways to display information and maybe even go for a book on interface design like About Face or The Joy of UX.

edit: clarity

u/Wayne_Enterprises_ · 6 pointsr/userexperience

This should get you started :)

Books:

u/davidNerdly · 4 pointsr/web_design

Just some I like:

Dev


  • [You Don't Know Javascript (series)(]https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS). Short and sweet mostly. Well written. Some are still pending publishing but there are a couple available now. I believe you can read them for free online, I just like paper books and wanted to show some support.

  • Elequent Javascript (second release coming in november). Current version here if you are impatient. I have not personally read it yet, waiting for the next revision. I recommend it due to the high regard it has in the web community.

  • Professional JavaScript for Web Developers. Sometimes called the bible of js. Big ole book. I have not read it through and through, but have enjoyed the parts I have perused.

    Design


    (I am weak in the design side, so take these recommendation with a grain of salt. I recommend them off of overall industry cred they receive and my own personal taste for them.)

  • The Elements of Typographic Style. Low level detail into the art and science behind typography.

  • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited. I read the original, not the new one that I linked. It is an easy read (morning commute on the train was perfect for it) and covers UX stuff in a very easy to understand way. My non-designer brain really appreciated it.

    below are books I have not read but our generally recommended to people asking this question

  • About Face.

  • The Design of Everyday Things.

  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum.


    You can see a lot of these are theory based. My 0.02 is that books are good for theory, blogs are good for up to date ways of doing things and tutorial type stuff.

    Hope this helps!


    Battery is about to die so no formatting for you! I'll add note later if I remember.

    EDIT: another real quick.

    EDIT2: Eh, wound up on my computer. Added formatting and some context. Also added more links because I am procrastinating my actual work I have to do (picking icons for buttons is so hard, I never know what icon accurately represents whatever context I am trying to fill).
u/plaka888 · 3 pointsr/CrappyDesign

I lead design teams, and have been a designer of many colors for years. I start EVERYONE that asks this question with Tufte, because he's Not a designer, explores information design (which UI design is largely a subset of, IMO) from various angles, and non-designers have heard of him on NPR or some other bullshit, so they feel "in the know" once they read a book, and get more interested. I don't agree with many of his assertions, but one could start off much worse. Next, Alan Cooper and Rob Reimann's About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design is excellent, also Moggridge's Designing Interactions (dated, but always applicable). There's plenty of other stuff out there, many of the Amazon "people who bought this" recs that show up on Rob's book are solid books by solid designers.

Edit: EVERYONE -> everyone not hired to do design that asks about it at work

Edit 2: There's a 4th edition of About Face, I just noticed. Really anything Alan or Rob do is excellent.

u/gbnikolov · 3 pointsr/design_critiques

Honestly, I don't even know where to start.. No offense intended, but you are in the very beginning of digital design. This is not to say that you don't have the technical skills, but that you should study more visual design theory. Good design has rules, which are learnable. Below is a book list, which I think will be a great value to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Ordering-Disorder-Principles-Design-Voices/dp/0321703537/

http://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/1118766571/

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Beautiful-Web-Design/dp/0992279445/

I don't want to discourage you, your page will look much better if you read only one of these.

u/cheeseballtaco · 2 pointsr/web_design

I think that there are many ways of learning UX. What I have found that I use most often is googling something like "Modern web design UX" and I try and recreate those myself and so my brain just knows what to do. Here are some cool books I have read that I found very useful.
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Designer-People-Voices-Matter/dp/0321767535/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509069574&sr=1-1&keywords=100+Things+Every+Designer+Needs+to+Know+About+People%E2%80%8A%E2%80%94%E2%80%8A+Susan+Weinschenk

and

https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/1118766571/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T2H4X09K5XV9Y2HPT56N

good luck friend

u/tristamus · 2 pointsr/userexperience

Lean UX

About Face - Essentials of Interaction Design

u/ajkandy · 2 pointsr/userexperience

All excellent methodology. I would add, if you need some "book" resources:

u/jtouchs · 1 pointr/IxD

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118766571/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_MRH7BbP7V5K81

u/andreplaut · 1 pointr/learndesign

I would recommend starting with Elements of User Experience. It'll give you a great overview of UX design.

Then, to go into even more detail, I'd recommend About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design. It's much more practical and detailed.

Those were two of the books we used when we built the [User Experience Design Immersive program at General Assembly] (https://generalassemb.ly/education/user-experience-design-immersive)