Recommended resources for beginners

2020. May 29 less than 1 minute read

Books

Recommended books from the Nielsen group’s User Experience Careers report:
- About Face 3
- Don’t Make Me Think
- Design of Everyday Things
- Hooked
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Lean UX
- Sense and Respond
- Sprint

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