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10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called “heuristics” because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
Accessible colors
We evaluate your color combination using the WCAG 2.0 guidelines for contrast accessibility.
Adobe Color
Discover popular color from the Adobe Color community and search for themes by name, mood, keyword search
Adobe XD
Part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Adobe XD is a powerful tool for designing and prototyping user interfaces and experiences. It offers integration with other Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator
Behance
A platform where designers showcase their work. It’s a great place to get inspiration for your portfolio layout and presentation. You can also use it to host your portfolio.
Carbon Design System
Carbon is IBM’s open source design system for products and digital experiences.
CareerFoundry
Specializes in immersive UX design bootcamps that include mentorship and job placement assistance. Courses are designed to take you from beginner to job-ready UX designer.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue.
Colorhunt
Discover the newest hand-picked color palettes of Color Hunt. Get color inspiration for your design and art projects.
ColorSpace
Never waste Hours on finding the perfect Color Palette again! Just Enter a Color! and Generate nice Color Palettes
Contrast
Ensures that the color combinations used in digital interfaces meet accessibility standards, particularly concerning readability for users with visual impairments
Coolhue
Get coolest handpicked gradient colors collection palette for your next project, alternatively copy css or download as image too.
Coolors
Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.
Coursera
Offers various UX courses from universities and industry experts, such as Google’s UX Design Certificate, which includes interview prep.
Creativism
“Creativism – Doodle, Design, Deliver” is a visual memoir spanning 25 years in the design industry, offering a historical perspective on Zimbabwean design and paying tribute to the individuals who have been instrumental in the journey.
CSS Gradient
CSS Gradient is a designstripe project that lets you create free gradient backgrounds for your website.
Designing complex application
5 different sources of UX complexity help explain and analyze the special design issues in complex applications.
Devign Intervention: How to shape a successful career in design.
With this inspiring and practical guidebook, you will be able to tap into your creativity and launch an extraordinary design career. As aspiring designers, seasoned professionals…
Dive club
Dive is where designers never stop learning
Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability,
The book covers the principles of navigation and information architecture in a way that’s funny and down to earth.
Dribbble
A popular platform for designers to share their work. Dribbble is excellent for finding inspiration for UX portfolios, especially for clean, visual presentations.
edX
Provides UX courses from universities and institutions like MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft. Many courses are free to audit, with the option to pay for certification.
EstiMate – Your ultimate tech pricing companion
EstiMate is a free online project pricing tool that helps you calculate the cost of tech projects quickly and accurately.
EU Remote Jobs
100% remote full-time and freelance from global companies hiring remotely
Everything I Know (So Far) On Landing a Lob in UX with Jason Ogle
After nearly two years of planning and almost two months of recording and editing, this episode covers everything I know so far about landing a job in UX. I hope it’s not only helpful for you or anyone seeking their first (or next) UX job, but also inspirational and potentially life-changing.
Excalidraw
Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
femke.design
This channel offers valuable insights and experiences from a seasoned designer, covering topics such as UX Design, User Research, Prototyping, and Product Development.
Figma
Figma is a browser-based web design tool that lets teams of users collaborate on projects to build interactive user interface prototypes.
Figma YouTube Channel
Dive into a comprehensive collection of tutorials designed to help you master Figma’s features.
Flaticons
Download Free Icons and Stickers for your projects. Resources made by and for designers. PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and CSS formats.
Fontawesome
Take the hassle out of icons in your project. Font Awesome is the Internet’s icon library and toolkit, used by millions of designers, developers, and content …
Freepik
Find & Download Free Graphic Resources for Logo. 14339000+ Vectors, Stock Photos & PSD files. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ High Quality Images.
Future Learn
A UK-based online learning platform that partners with universities and organizations to offer a wide range of courses, programs, and degrees online.
Google Fonts
Google Fonts makes it easy to bring personality and performance to your websites and products. Our robust catalog of open-source fonts and icons makes it easy ..
Gradient Buttons
Hundreds of CSS gradients buttons. One click copy to clipboard.
Gradient Hunt
Gradient Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-made color gradients
Gumroad
A basic set of styles and components following Gumroad’s neubrutalism design.
Haus Ethnik Dingbats
by Baynham Goredema
High Resolution
Bringing clarity to how the best companies approach, communicate, and deploy design. Hosted by Bobby Ghoshal & Jared Erondu.
How to Build a Brand
“Building a Brand” is a series where we take you behind the scenes as Blind helps to rebrand Hamilton Family Brewery.
How to Conduct Better Hiring Interviews for UX Teams
Learn how structuring your hiring interviews can help UX teams strike gold by identifying high-performing and diverse hires with a less biased process.
Hugeicons
Discover a new styles of extraordinary experiences. Plus better ways to design
Iconfinder
Millions of graphics for your design projects. Created by independent designers.
Iconscout
4.1 Million+ High-Quality Icons, 3D Illustrations, Lottie Animations & more. Download & Customize Design Assets without leaving the tools you love.
Interaction Design Foundation
Offers online courses on UX design, including sections on portfolio building and interview preparation.
Interview Preparation
These question provides employers with an early preview of your core skills, your personality and your ability to respond to an unstructured question.
Interviewing.io
A platform for mock technical interviews, but useful for practicing behavioral and problem-solving questions related to UX.
InVision
A digital product design platform that enables designers to create interactive prototypes, collaborate with team members, and gather feedback. It also offers design system management tools.
Iwaria
Discover Iwaria, the largest source of images entirely dedicated to Africa. You will find free, authentic, and high quality photos for all your projects.
LinkedIn Learning
Offers a broad selection of UX design courses, including courses on UX research, UI design, and design thinking. The platform provides certificates that can be displayed on your LinkedIn profile.
Lookback
Facilitates user interviews and usability testing, allowing real-time or recorded sessions to gather in-depth insights.
Lottie Files
Discover a vast collection of free Ui animations at LottieFiles. Enhance your projects with high-quality, downloadable Lottie JSON, dotLottie, MP4, and GIF formats.
Madimi One
Taurai Valerie Mtake, Mirko Velimirović
Maze
A rapid testing platform that integrates with design tools to quickly gather and analyze user insights and validate design choices.
Miro
An online collaborative whiteboard platform that is useful for brainstorming, wireframing, and user journey mapping. Miro is excellent for team collaboration on UX projects.
Nappy
Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
No desk
NoDesk informs about remote work and connects the global workforce.
Pexels
Download and use 2000+ Logo stock photos for free. ✓ Thousands of new images every day ✓ Completely Free to Use ✓ High-quality
Pixabay
Find your perfect royalty-free image or video to download and use. ✓ Royalty-free ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.
Pramp
Offers free mock interviews with peers in various fields, including UX/UI design.
Propel
Propel is a platform that helps you find tech jobs, access finance, and enjoy benefits through your Community.
Remotists
Remotists is a SaaS service that provides a platform for candidates and companies to find and post remote jobs across various industries.
Sankofa Display
Batsirai Madzonga
Shadcn UI Design System
Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.
Sketch
A vector-based design tool primarily for macOS, Sketch is popular for UI/UX design and prototyping. It’s known for its simplicity and a strong ecosystem of plugins.
Stark
A suite of accessibility tools that integrates with design tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD to check for color contrast, simulate color blindness, and more.
Streamline
Unlock Streamline’s vast vector library: 235,000 Pro icons, 32,000 illustrations, and 13,000 vector elements.
Tajamuka Script
Fonts by Bayhaus
The current state of UX design in Zimbabwe
Article by John Banda
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman coined the term “user experience” in the original 1988 version of this book.
The making of a UX community in Zimbabwe
I first came across the term UX (User Experience) Design back in 2015 when I was part of a start-up community in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. At that time I was a computer…
Toptal
Browse and discover beautiful color combinations
Udemy
A popular platform with a wide variety of UX courses taught by industry professionals. Courses range from short introductory lessons to in-depth bootcamps covering specific tools like Adobe XD and Figma.
Uizard
Uizard is an AI-powered design tool that transforms the process of creating user interfaces for apps, websites, and software.
Universal Principles of Design
Universal Principles of Design is the first cross-disciplinary reference of design.
Unsplash
The internet’s source for visuals. Powered by creators everywhere.
UsabilityHub
Offers quick testing tools like five-second tests and preference tests to validate design decisions with real users.
UserTesting
Enables real-time video feedback from users interacting with your product to identify usability issues and validate design decisions.
WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)
A web accessibility evaluation tool that provides visual feedback on the accessibility of your web content by injecting icons and indicators into your page.
Webgradients
Easy copy CSS3 crossbrowser code and use it in a moment!
Whimsical
Align on your next build faster with Whimsical docs, flowcharts, wireframes, & mind maps. Generate AI diagrams and access templates from product leaders