Intro to Design

Resources

Articles and Presentations

• Joe Gilbert, “Elements of User Experience Design”
• Ethan Marcotte, “Responsive Web Design”
• Donna Spencer, “How I Draft an Information Architecture”
• Luke Wroblewski, “Visual Narratives”
• Jeffrey Zeldman, “Understanding Web Design”

Books

• Dan Brown, Communicating Design
• Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design
• Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience
• Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach, Content Strategy for the Web
• Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type
• Dan Roam, Back of a Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
• Luke Wroblewski, Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability
• 37 Signals, Defensive Design for the Web

Ideas and Inspiration

Magazines

• A List Apart
• Boxes and Arrows
• Contents Magazine
• Smashing Magazine
• Wireframes Magazine

Design Galleries

• CSS Mania
• Design Snips
• Media Queries
• Pattern Tap