A list of resources for UXDI students
##GA Resources ###Student Project Gallery
###Campus Library
###UX Design at GA
###Local Companies Hiring The Chicago job market for design is robust and sometimes difficult to find opportunities because companies post across many job boards in addition to their own sites. These are a few focused places to start looking.
- Built in Chicago
- [AIGA Design Jobs](http://designjobs.aiga.org/#location=Chicago, IL)
- Authentic Jobs
- Angelist
- We Work Remotely
- Chicago Ad Agency List
####A list of Chicago Creative Agencies (linked directly to IxD firms)
##Videos
- Mike Monteiro: Keynote
- It's a Great Time to Be A UX Designer
- The Gap
- The Design Studio Method - Todd Zaki Warfel
- Productivity Future Vision (2011)
- David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
- How Designers Destroyed the World by Mike Monteiro— An AEA Video
- What the #$%@ is UX Design?
- Bill Buxton on sketching experiences
- Startup Lab workshop: User Research, Quick 'n' Dirty
- Start With Why - Simon Sinek TED talk
- Adobe: Five Essential Principles of Interaction Design
- Ling at Handheld
- How to Design an Effective Presentation
- What is UX Design?
- Importance of Design Specifications
- Eric Ries-Building the Minimum Viable Product
- UX: Developing an Information Architecture with Card Sorting
- Series: "In the Empathy Lab". Episode: "Native vs. Responsive Web Design (RWD)"
- The Pros and Cons of Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Website vs. Native App
- What is a Wireframe?
- 002: The What, Why & How of Wireframing
- Google I/O 2015 - Material Now
- The art of choosing
- Prototyping fake it till you make it
- How frustration can make us more creative
- What is the Value of Service Design?
##Books
- You're My Favorite Client
- Just Enough Research
- Design is a Job
- Designing for Emotion
- Atomic Design
- The Shape of Design
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Design for the Real World
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
- Purposely Irregular: Zen, Punk Rock and Ruthlessness in Experience Design
##Articles ###Design Generalists
- Defending The Generalists In The Web Design Industry
- Should You Become A UX Generalist Or A UX Specialist?
- Designing in the Borderlands
- Why the Best Designers Don’t Specialize in Any One Thing
- The Specialist-Generalist Balance
###UX
- Good UX designers must be fighters
- Creating Perfect User Flows for Smooth UX
- The State of UX in 2016
- What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
- UI Design Principles And Guidelines
- The Only UX Reading List Ever
- 10 Questions You’ll Be Asked in a UX Interview
- The hardest thing in UX design…
- A Day in the Life of a Google UX Design Intern
- The Full-Stack Employee
- Q&A with Carolyn Tweedy, A General Assembly UX Student
- A Stakeholder Interview Checklist, Kim Goodwin, boxesandarrows.com
- Most of government is mostly service design most of the time. Discuss.
- Atomic Design
- How To Go From Junior Designer To Chief Design Officer
- Google Ventures On How To Design A Killer Website
- On Surveys
- The Design Process: What is the Double Diamond?
- An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
- Paper prototyping is a waste of time
- 9 basic principles of responsive web design
- Design user research explained for everyone
- The Ten Commandments Of Efficient Design In Axure
- The 10 Commandments Of User Interface Design
- The Dribbblisation of Design
- 7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility
- Build It With The User in Mind: How to Design User Flow
- Streamlining the Design Process: User Flow to Final Design using Sketch
- Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows
- The 30 Minute Business Plan: Business Model Canvas Made Easy
- Agile vs. Lean vs. Lean Agile
- Presumptive Design: Design Research Through the Looking Glass
- The Lean UX Manifesto – Principle Driven Design
- The startup that died so Instagram could live
- The Story of Flickr
- 11 Startups That Found Success By Changing Direction
- The 8020 Rule Applied to Web Design
- Steve Jobs: Innovation is Saying "No" to 1,000 things
- Google designers had an ‘almost hallucinatory moment’ when Larry Page finally said that products needed to look beautiful
- Designing the new Foursquare
- Watching Them Struggle
- How to Design a Pitch Deck: Lessons from a Seasoned Founder
- Making Your Product a Habit: The Hook Framework
- Getting Traction: How to Hook New Users
- Language as Interface: A Voice and Tone Guide for Your UX Design Project
- Tone and Voice: Showing Your Users That You Care
- The Next Big Thing In Design? Less Choice
- Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
- Decision fatigue
- Partnering with Key Stakeholders in UX Strategy
- 6 common challenges in managing UX projects and how to overcome them
###Research
- Seeing the Elephant: Defragmenting User Research
- When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
- Interviewing Users: Uncovering Compelling Insights
- On Surveys
- UX Strategy: Chapter 4. Conducting Competitive Research
- Connected UX
- A Five-Step Process For Conducting User Research
- The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love
- Dos and Don’ts of Interviewing Users
- Personas Make Users Memorable for Product Team Members
- Five Approaches To Creating Lightweight Personas
- New MailChimp: User Persona Research
- Interviewing Users: Spinning Data Into Gold
- Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
- How To Write a Good PRD
- Minimum Desirable Product
- How to Use Dot Voting Effectively
- MOSCOW METHOD
- #now, #next, #later: Roadmaps without the Drudgery
- Example of A Design Specification
- Trust Nothing, Murder Most
- Sitemaps – The Beginner’s Guide
- Tree Testing
- Information Architecture mistakes and remedies
- 5 Common Information Architecture Pitfalls
- Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner’s Guide
- Information Architecture Heuristics
- Make Sense: Information Architecture for Everybody
- Card sorting: a definitive guide
- Why card sorting loves tree testing
- Design for Continuous Experimentation
- Avoid these Mistakes..Or Your Usability Testing Results Will Be Worthless!
- Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping
- Usability Pro-Tips
- A Guerilla Usability Test on Dropbox Photos
###Production
- Modern Design Tools: Adaptive Layouts
- Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes
- Common Misconceptions About Touch
- Touch Target Sizes
- 6 UX Mistakes to Avoid When Designing a Native Mobile App
- 5 Reasons to Use UI Patterns in Your Design Work
- Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices
- Writing Smart Annotations
- 8 VISUAL DESIGN TIPS FOR UX DESIGNERS
- Design Principles: Dominance, Focal Points And Hierarchy
- Design Principles: Visual Perception And The Principles Of Gestalt
- 20 Typography Mistakes Every Beginner Makes
- Designing a Good Mobile App Interface
- Integrating Prototyping Into Your Design Process
- See Also: (More) thoughts on design tools
- Origami and Material Design: Getting a better understanding of both
- The 3 laws of effective notifications
###Building a Portfolio
- How To Build A World-Class Design Portfolio
- 10 Steps To A Perfect UX Portfolio
- How Much UX have You Put into Your UX Portfolio?
- Creating Better UX Portfolios: 4 Do’s and Dont’s
###Job interviews
- How top startups pay designers
- How to Ace Your Portfolio Presentation
- How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise
- Why A Career In UX Design Has A Low Barrier Of Entry … Sort Of
###Growing as a Designer
- Hey Designers: Stop Being An Afterthought
- How to be an amazing designer: the excellence bar
- UX Is a Canary in a Coal Mine
##Design Blogs
- A List Apart
- Smashing Magazine
- Dear Design Student: Advice on design from people who work for a living.
- GV Library: Design
- Webdesignersdepot.com
- FROONT Open Desing Blog
- The Secret Handshake®
- Google Design
- Wired Design
- Fast Co. Design
- Designer News
- UX Switch: Career Advice
##Tools ###Research ####Survey
####Usability
####A/B Testing
####Analysis and Feedback
####Screensharing
####Screen Recording
###Wireframing
###Service Design
###Prototyping
- Designer’s Toolkit: Prototyping Tools via Cooper.com
- POP
- Invision
- Marvel
- UXPin
- Flinto
- Axure
- Proto.io
- Frontify
- Bubble
###Animation/Interaction
###Visual Storytelling
###Visual Design
####Visual Design Resources
####Sketch Resources
#####PLUGINS
####Articles
- iOS Dev in Sketch (Managing Workflow)
- How to Wireframe in Sketch
- How to Switch From Photoshop to Sketch
- Hidden Features in Sketch
###Front-End ####Learning
####Resources
####Frameworks
####Tools
####Visual Website Builders
###File Storage
##Reference
##Organizations
##Case Studies / UX Design Portfolios ###Case Studies
###Portfolios