UI / UX Design for Developers

As developers we are almost always trained in software development, programming languages, databases, software design etc only but we hardly ever get any training related with UI/UX design. We do know how to build frontends but don’t know the UI/UX principles behind building great UI/UX. Hence most of us developers rely on designers for UI/UX design work.

I have put together following list of my favorite resources about UI/UX design for developers so developers can learn about design and hopefully start implementing these principles in their projects and products.

Basic UI/UX design principles and mostly enough for most of us:

• Shift Nudge (Video Course) - https://shiftnudge.com/
• Refactoring UI (Book) - https://www.refactoringui.com/
• General UI/UX principles: https://component.gallery/
• Hack Design (Email based course) - https://hackdesign.org/
• Badass: Making Users Awesome (book)
• Christopher Alexander: A primer by Ryan Singer - https://www.feltpresence.com/christopher-alexander-a-primer/

For inspirations on how others build UI/UX:

• Design systems: https://www.designsystems.com/open-design-systems/
• More design systems: https://github.com/saadeghi/design-systems
• Bunch of more design patterns: https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems/

If you want to know more and want to learn more I recommend:

• Creating Passionate Users (Blog) - https://headrush.typepad.com/
• Getting Real (Free book): https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/getting-real.pdf
• Shape Up (Free book): https://basecamp.com/shapeup
• A book a part book: https://abookapart.com/collections/books.html
• Mozilla Design for Developer Resources - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/core/design-for-developers/
• Don't Make Me Think (Book)
• All books of Christopher Alexander specially Pattern Language (Pattern Languages teaches you how to design houses or streets etc. but those principles apply to UI/UX as well)