User Experience Publications
Aug 18th, 2009
Continuing on my series of answering common questions I have created a post list user experience publications. This is a question that keeps coming up in discussion is about User Experience resources, specifically about publications. So here is a list of industry publications which I read on a semi-regular basis, most of which I subscribe to their feed or email newsletter. I am hoping you find these useful.
The list is grouped into three main sections; Industry Publications (non-corporate ezines and/or printed magazines), Team & Company Publications (multi-author and/or business focused publications), and Personal Publications (practitioners who write). Not listed are my own company’s blog, A Blue Flavored Blog, and my own personal blog of which you are currently reading.
Industry Publications
- A List Apart
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Web Design & Web Development
- For people who make websites. A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
- ACM’s eLearn Magazine
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Academic
- Focus: Education
- eLearn is ACM’s first Web-only publication. It will build on ACM’s reputation by serving as the most accurate and unbiased source for news, information, and opinion on the now-flourishing field of online education and training. It also offers a community hub for e-learning professionals on the Web, providing a wealth of public forums for the free exchange of ideas.
- ACM’s Interactions
- Format: Printed Magazine
- Audience: Academic
- Focus: Interaction Design
- This magazine includes timely articles, stories, and content related to the interactions between experiences, people, and technology.
- Boxes & Arrows
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Academic & Practitioner
- Focus: Information Architecture
- Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Since 2001, it’s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way.
- Core77
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Industrial Design
- Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties, and exhibits.
- Johnny Holland
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Johnny is an open collective talking, sharing and finding answers about the interaction between people and products, systems or processes.
- Smashing Magazine
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Web Design
- Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
- UPA’s User Experience Magazine
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Academic
- Focus: Usability
- User Experience is a magazine by and about usability professionals, featuring significant and unique articles dealing with the broad field of usability and the user experience.
- UX Magazine
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. It is built upon the foundations of ProjectNeo, a global interactive design community.
- UX Matters
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- UXmatters is a Web magazine that delivers compelling content about developing effective user experience (UX) strategies and designing digital product user experiences that optimally serve people’s needs and satisfy their desires.
Team & Company Publications
- 404 User Experience Design
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: Alex Bischoff, Christian Bradford, Jeff Adams, Matt Donovan, Mark Kraemer, and T. Scott Stromberg
- Adaptive Path Blog
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: Jesse James Garrett, Peter Merholz & Team
- BrainTraffic Blog
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Content Strategy
- Authors: Kristina Halvorson & Team
- nForm Blog
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: Jess McMullin, Gene Smith & Team
- OK/Cancel
- Format: Comic & Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Authors: Kevin Cheng & Tom Chi
- Putting People First
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: Mark Vanderbeeken & Team
- UIE Brainsparks
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: Usability & Interaction Design
- Authors: Jared Spool & Team
- UX Booth
- Format: Ezine
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: Redd Horrocks, Matthew Kammerer, David Leggett & Andrew Maier
- Viget Advance
- Format: Blog
- Audience: Practitioner
- Focus: User Experience
- Authors: M. Jackson Wilkinson, Brian Talbot & Jackson Fox
Personal Publications
- 90 Percent of Everything
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Harry Brignull
- Atomiq
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Gene Smith
- Bloug
- Focus: Information Architecture
- Author: Louis Rosenfeld
- Bokardo
- Focus: Social Media
- Author: Joshua Porter
- Brown Blog
- Focus: Web Design
- Author: Matt Brown
- ChangeOrder
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Author: David Sherwin
- Design with Intent
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Author: Dan Lockton
- Done Bright
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Elizabeth Buie
- DonnaM
- Focus: Information Architecture
- Author: Donna Spencer
- Dorian Taylor
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Dorian Taylor
- Engage
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Author: Dave Malouf
- Everyday UX
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Alex Rainert
- Functioning Form
- Focus: Interface Design
- Author: Luke Wroblewski
- Good Experience
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Mark Hurst
- Graphpaper
- Focus: Interaction Design
- Author: Christopher Fahey
- GreenOnions
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Dan M. Brown
- Information is Beautiful/
- Focus: Information Design
- Author: David McCandless
- Inspire UX
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Catriona Cornett
- Jason Robb
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Jason Robb
- Konigi
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Michael Angeles
- Matthew Rea Design
- Focus: User Interface Design
- Author: Matthew Rea
- Personal InfoCloud
- Focus: Social Media
- Author: Thomas Vander Wal
- Pleasure and Pain
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Whitney Hess
- Rands in Repose
- Focus: Management
- Author: Michael Lopp
- The Berkun Blog
- Focus: Management & Innovation
- Author: Scott Berkun
- Semantic Foundry
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Will Evans
- Semantic Studios
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Peter Morville
- Tyesha Snow
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Tyesha Snow
- UI & Us
- Focus: User Interface
- Author: Keith Lang
- UI Scraps
- Focus: User Interface
- Author: Jason Robb
- Usability Post
- Focus: Usability
- Author: Dmitry Fadeyev
- UseIt.com
- Focus: Usability
- Author: Jakob Nielsen
- UserBlog
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Russ Unger
- UX Array
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Sara Summers
- UX Digest
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Verne Ho
- UX Strategy
- Focus: User Experience
- Author: Will Tschumy
About the author
Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has dabbled in the web for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research. Read more
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