User Experience Related Links

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. - Charles Mingus

The following are my favorite user experience related links. UX blogs keep me updated about what's happening in the design industry and in academic research. Design reference links includes some handy design websites that I often visit. UX communities are places where we share our passions and sweet and bitter creative experiences together.

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  • Basement.org by Rich Ziade

    This is my favorite blog. This blog talks about Web 2.0 technologies and the importance of good experience design. The blog has influenced a lot on the way I'm thinking about design and how technology trends influence our lives. One nice feature of the blog is that the author has a column which provides a brief description of cool design tools and news from other blogs.

  • Functioning Form by Luke Wroblewski

    This is a very visionary blog and a must read among designers. The blog often interviews the experts in interface design and and asks about their design vision. The blog helps me to think about the big picture and the direction of user experience. It also offers very well written articles about technology and design.

  • Adaptive Path Blog and Essay Archives

    Not much description is needed here since Adaptive Path is the UX consulting group in the field. Each designer in Adaptive Path also has a great personal blog.

  • Future Perfect by Jan Chipchase

    "A picture is worth a thousand words." The old saying would be the best description for the blog. Jan is a user researcher at Nokia, and he travels all over the world and takes great photos of how people use telephones or just everyday things. An excellent portrait of "design of everyday things." This blog is great to read even on a 30 sec break.

  • Usability In The News by Usernomics

    This blog offers very practical tips on user-centered design and introduces new usability research findings that may surprise us designers.

  • Design Critique: Products for People by Tim and Tom

    This is a podcast blog that consists of reviews of popular products such as IPod, alarm clocks, and etc.

  • Veerlee's Blog by VeerLee

    This is a web design blog that promotes web standards. Veerlee offers a lot of tips on graphics design, using design tools and web standards. I really appreciate her sharing and giving back to the community spirit.

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Design Reference

This section is under development. I'll be adding more links and descriptions to the links soon.

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UX Communities

I am affiliated with the following design communities.

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