Subject - Design
Welcome to the UX guide. Here you will find resources that will help you with your study on User Experience.
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eBooks - search these eBook platforms for books that will help you develop your UX knowlegde
Handbooks - Style guides, tips from experts, case studies.
Databases - search reports, thesis, newspaper, magazine and peer reviewed journal articles on UX
eBooks, search on these eBook platforms for books on UX
SEARCH: ("User Experience" OR UX)
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- O'Reilly This link opens in a new windowSearch: ("user experience" OR UX) Add Filters - Topics: Design. You will find titles like Tidwell, J. Brewer, C., Valencia, A (2019) Designing Interfaces, 3rd edition. O'Reilly Media
- Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts This link opens in a new windowSearch: ("user experience" OR UX) in the Bloomsbury Visual Arts collection - you will find Allanwood, G. & Beare, P. (2019) User Experience Design : A Practical Introduction and more.
- ProQuest eBook Central This link opens in a new windowSearch: ("User experience" OR UX) and limit the date range to the last 5 years. You will find titles like Lynch, P., Horton, S. & Marcotte, E. (2019) Web Style Guide 4th ed. Yale University Press.
- Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new windowSearch : ("User Experience" AND UX) We do not have access to all of the eBooks on this platform, the ones that offer 'Download book PDF' are included in our subscription.
Handbooks and style guides
Laws of UX by Publication Date: 2020The principles from psychology most useful for designers - Fitts's law, Jakob's law, and Hick's law.
Web Style Guide: Foundations of User Experience Design (4th ed.) by Publication Date: 2019A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites.
Databases
Here you will find research articles published on User Experience Design, use the refining tools in the database to limit to the past 5 years.
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, eBooks, conference proceedings, theses, reports, technical briefs. Focused on computing, information technology and systems.
- EBSCO - All databases This link opens in a new window
EBSCO provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed full text articles, eBooks, videos and images.
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- UX Search in Proquest: Computer Science DatabaseThe results you will find here are from scholarly journal articles and case studies with a computer technology focus, includes reference to AI, virtual reality, augmented reality, IoT and more.
- UX Search in Communications & Mass Media CompleteThis search (UX OR "user experience") AND design in a database that focuses on communication and mass media, retrieved results that investigate indigenous perspectives to UX research, case studies and more