GENERAL: Places that offer courses, tips, and case studies

43 Tools to Optimize Your Product Designs

Best design practices—DesignBetter.Co
Coursera UX courses (free if you sign up to audit only), registration is free for certain courses +
specializations with access to a .edu email until the end of July.
Design Better’s Free eBooks
Design Kit (shows case studies)
Interaction Design Foundation
Mentor Cruise
Nielson Norman Group (also has events)
Step-by-Step Guide on How to Build a Design System
Students who design
The Inclusion & Diversity Compendium for Designers
UX 101 Reading List
UX Beginner
UX Beginner: Become a UX Designer
UXq crash course
User Experience Design Learning Path | Springboard
User Experience Stack Exchange
UX glossary
UX Mastery’s List of UX Tools
Humane by Design

UX EVENT CALENDAR
CPHUX UX Events
UX Meetups

DESIGN PRACTICING + INSPO

10 mood boards to inspire your UX designs | Inside Design Blog
Adobe/Khan Education Exchange + Create Activities
Behance
Can’t Unsee (A game that helps you practice your attention to design details)
Design mockups
Figma course
Figma resources and UI kits
Google Material Design/Icons
InVision app tutorials
https://mobbin.design
Pinterest (for project ideas)
UX/UI challenges:
- Figma design exercises
- Figma 31 day Daily UI challenge
- 100 day daily ui challenge newsletter
Weekly ux product design exercise (newsletter)
http://www.uxchallenge.co
SHARPEN

FREELANCE/PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES
Side Prjct
Upwork
UX Rescue (Volunteer, non-profit)
Angel.co (startups)

NETWORKING/COFFEE CHATS
UX Coffee Hours
Lunch Club

YOUTUBE CHANNELS
Chunbuns (UX design + career playlist)
Envato Tuts
Figma YT channel
Thefutur
UX Research/Design & Music Youtube Channel
hello, I’m Alexa
LindaAhn

APPS WIREFRAMING, MOCKUPS & PROTOTYPING

Adobe XD
Figma
Flinto – The App Design App
InVision - MockUp, Layouts, Designs, Prototypes
Miro | Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration
MockFlow - browser-based wireframing tool
Sketch app for Mac
UXPin - Docs | Design Systems
Xtensio for UX Design teams | Xtensio

ARTICLES
47 Key Lessons for UI and UX designers
7 Tips to Improve Your Design Practice
How a cold email got me a breakfast with a Designer at the Google Office
How I landed a job in UX Design with no degree or work experience
How to build a UX research portfolio
Overcoming Challenges as an Aspiring UX Researcher
UI Cheat Sheet (Medium)
UX collective (Medium)

RESEARCH

Best digital tools for UX researchBest UX tools for user research and user testing
Design research techniques
Design better
The Moderators’ Survival Guide: Handling Common, Tricky, and Sticky Situations in User
Research
Tools I use as a ux researcher
UX research tools
UX studio team (ux research tools blog)
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods