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Resources & Tools for UX Designers
Research methods, UX laws, flow references and writing guides for designers who own the problem, not just the pixels. Use them to plan studies, map flows, reason about patterns and write interfaces people understand on first read.
Research and Discovery
Plan and run research, synthesize what you learn and keep discovery going after launch.
Methods and Guides
UX Research Field Guide
User Interviews' 10-module guide to planning, recruiting, running, synthesizing and reporting user research.
Product Talk
Teresa Torres on continuous discovery, customer interviews and opportunity solution trees. Reach for it when setting up discovery.
Rosenfeld Media
UX publisher of practitioner books on research, content and design ops, such as Interviewing Users.
Usability Evidence and Tools
Baymard Institute
Large-scale usability research on e-commerce, checkout and mobile UX. Free articles; paid benchmarks and guidelines for audits.
Dovetail
Research repository that auto-tags transcripts, clusters themes and answers questions with cited customer quotes.
Attention Insight
Predictive attention heatmaps for designs before launch. Check whether CTAs and key content actually get seen.
Flows and Patterns
See how real products structure flows end to end, then check your own against best practice.
User Flows
Page Flows (formerly Screenlane)
Recorded user flows and screens from real products, for understanding how UX flows work end to end.
Mobbin
Real-world screens and flows from leading iOS, Android and web apps, searchable by pattern.
Nicelydone
200k+ screens, flows and in-context components from 500+ SaaS apps. Search by on-screen text and export to Figma.
Refero
Searchable reference library of real web and iOS product screens and flows, updated weekly. Has a Figma plugin and MCP.
Checklists and Mapping
Checklist Design
Best-practice checklists for pages, components and flows like login, pricing and payments. Use before handoff or critique.
Autoflow
Draws connector arrows between frames that follow when you move them. The quickest way to map user flows in Figma.
Dashboard Design Patterns
Research-based pattern library for dashboard layout, structure, interaction and data representation. Great for planning.
UX Principles and Case Studies
Shared reasoning to explain and defend design decisions, and teardowns that show it applied to real products.
Laws and Principles
Laws of UX
Jon Yablonski's collection of UX laws and heuristics, each with related articles.
Design Principles
An open collection of design principles from companies and thinkers, for understanding design in depth.
Deceptive Patterns
Harry Brignull's catalogue of dark patterns, the laws against them and enforcement cases. Use it to spot and push back on manipulative flows.
UX Tools
A one-stop shop for UX videos, challenges, tool comparisons and the yearly design tools survey.
Case Studies
Growth.Design
Product psychology tips and insights told through comic-style case studies.
Built For Mars
UX audits, case studies and analysis in bite-sized content.
GoodUX by Appcues
Product UX teardowns plus the Behind the Experience podcast, for telling good UX from bad.
Case Study Club
Curated UX and product design case studies with a weekly newsletter. Use it to benchmark process write-ups and portfolios.
Accessibility and UX Writing
Design for everyone and write interface copy that is clear, consistent and kind.
Accessibility
The A11y Project
Community-run accessibility checklist, patterns and resources in plain language. A fast first stop for a11y questions.
WCAG 2.2 Quick Reference
W3C's filterable list of every WCAG 2.2 success criterion with techniques. The source of truth for compliance checks.
WebAIM
Accessibility nonprofit with practical articles, a contrast checker and the WAVE evaluator. Use it to test and explain issues.
Stark
Accessibility suite with Figma and Sketch plugins and browser extensions for contrast checks, vision simulation and audits.
UX Writing
Mailchimp Content Style Guide
Mailchimp's public voice, tone and writing guide. A proven template when defining product copy standards.
Microsoft Writing Style Guide
Microsoft's guide to clear, friendly UI text, from error messages and word choice to bias-free language.
GOV.UK Writing Standards
The UK government's content design and plain-English guidance. A benchmark for writing to real user needs.
Ditto
Product copy management with AI drafting and style-guide checks, plus an MCP server for AI coding tools.
Keep Learning
Courses and certificates to deepen your UX practice or formalize what you already know.
Courses and Certificates
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
One membership for 40 self-paced UX, UI and AI courses plus master classes and certificates. Strong for team training.
Uxcel
Bite-sized, categorized UX courses tailored to the goals you set during onboarding.
Google UX Design Certificate
Google's UX design program on Coursera. Takes you step by step from foundations to a job-ready portfolio.
Smart Interface Design Patterns
Vitaly Friedman's video course on 100 practical UI patterns with real examples, plus optional live UX training.
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