Bright Ideas for User Experience Designers

A guided course in interface design built around wireframes, covering controls, patterns, design principles, and templates. Written for people who need to review and discuss UI work without a design background.

Balsamiq Education Team

Follows a product from definition and research through analysis, design, and launch, naming the document produced at each stage. Useful when you know the techniques but not the order to apply them in.

UXPin

An essay on why designers make what they make, covering craft, improvisation, limitations, and storytelling. Less about tools and more about the thinking that shapes good work.

Frank Chimero

A studio handbook on the craft of digital interface work: pixel level detail, colour profiles, accessibility, file organization, and export. Written by a product design team about how they actually work.

Ustwo