
Ben Judy builds and leads human-centered design teams
Head of Design • User Experience Strategy & Ops • Remote collaboration • Designing digital things since 1999
My curated list of helpful articles, templates, tools, and other things for user experience practitioners.
RESOURCES
Accessibility
Agile
Blogs
- UX Collective - an independent design publication and blog built to help designers think more critically about their work.
Bookmarks
Books
Branding & logos
Career advice
For job seekers
For hiring managers
Career sites
Cognitive bias
Customer experience
Customer journeys
Dark mode
Data visualization
Design systems
Emotions
Empathy maps
Ethics & inclusive design
Expert users
Facilitation
Figma
Flow diagrams
Fonts
Grids
Icons
Illustrations
Interaction design
Metrics
Mockup generators
- artboard.studio - Design, animate and present your projects with an extensive library of mockups right inside the browser with your team.
- previewed - The simplest way to create device mockups.
Networking
- NoCode Portal - 100+ no-code/low-code tools and development platforms
Personas
Podcasts
Portfolios
For design contributors - articles and advice
For design contributors - example portfolio sites
- Stephanie Walter - fantastic site design, content, and work samples; overall the best designer portfolio site I've ever seen
- Beth Culp - excellent synopses of case studies on the home page "My Work" section - very simple, clear, yet detailed descriptions of what I'll find if I open one
- Severino Ribecca - great example of a professional / portfolio site for a specialist designer with a skill set that is narrowly focused and specific; excellent "Technical & Software Skills" section as well
For design leaders - articles and advice
For design leaders - examples portfolio sites
Practice maturity
Principles
Product management
Recruiting
Salaries
Skills
UX skill maps & assessments
Design vs. development skills
Strategy
Storyboards
- Scenes - a tool and a method to create storyboards about products and services fast, collaboratively and iteratively
Trends
User interface design
User research
Methods & Tools
Interviews
Synthesis & Reports
Vector drawing