User Experience

  Books : Don Norman - The design of everyday things; Things that make us smart Ed Hutchins - Cognition in the Wild Herbert Simon - Science of the Artificial Jennifer Tidwell - Designing Interfaces Robin Williams - The Non-designer's design book Luke Wroblewski - Web form design Kevin Mullet & Darrell Sano - Designing Visual Interfaces Design courses:  https://www.interaction-design.org/join https://syntagm.co.uk/design/cardsorting.htm (Design for Usability) UX Articles: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/fittss-law-and-user-experience/ https://www.usertesting.com/blog/2014/08/26/the-18-blogs-every-ux-pro-should-follow/  http://www.creativebloq.com/navigation/design-better-faceted-navigation-your-websites-41411437 (Web Design - Faceted Navigation) Other useful links : https://uxmastery.com/resources/books/

Analysing other sites and looking for issues is a good practice that helps you prevent mistakes in your UX job, learn about new concepts and come up with new ideas for your own sites. This is an analysis of 2 popular job seeking sites regarding design and UI elements. Job seeking sites: - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/index.htm - https://www.indeed.co.uk/  Questions (topics): 1. What’s an example of how the language choice, visual design, and/or interaction flow convey a different feel across the two sites? How do they beacon what kind of behavior is expected? . Glassdoor has a very informative and interactive landing page. It displays the main topics people looking for a job are interested in: jobs, company reviews, salaries and interviews. It uses catchy phrases that give the users the impression they are in good hands : 'Find a job that fits your life'. Glassdoor uses very strong visual elements like highlighted buttons, grids, text left alignment, large i...