Awesome Product Design

A collection of bookmarks, resources, articles for product designers.

Digital product design is an iterative design process to solve a functional problem with a formal solution. A digital product designer identifies a real problem, offers the best possible solution, and launch it to a market that is showing demand for that particular solution.

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Contents

• Research
• UX
• UI
• Visual
• Prototype
• Accessibility
• Writing
• Data
• IoT

Research

Methods

Decision Making

• Untools - Thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Research Plan

• Smashing Magazine - The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love.
• NN Group - Project Management for User Research: The Plan.
• Interaction Design - One Page User Research Plan.
• Branding5 - Make a brand positioning as a basis for your designs.

User Interview

• NN Group - Despite many weaknesses, interviews are a valuable method for exploratory user research.
• UXDesign.cc - How to Get the Most Out of User Interviews.

Stakeholder Interviews

• Boxes and Arrows - Cheat Sheet For Interviewing Stakeholders.
• UX Apprentice - Stakeholder Interview Template.
• Interaction Design - Preparing for UX Stakeholder Interviews.

Research Synthesis

• UX Movement - How to Turn User Research into Usable Data.
• SlideShare - Design Research Synthesis.
• Medium - Using Trello for User Research Synthesis.
• Tuts+ - How to Prepare and Use an Affinity Diagram.
• Medium - Affinity Diagrams: Tips and Tricks.

Competitive Analysis

• Xtensio - How To: Create A Competitive Analysis.
• Hootsuite - Competitive Analysis Template To Help You Outsmart The Competition.

Job to be Done

• Intercom - Designing features using Job Stories.
• JTBD - Replacing The User Story With The Job Story.

Personas

• Usability.Gov - The purpose of personas is to create reliable and realistic representations of your key audience.
• UX Mag - Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience.
• Tuts+ - Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design.

Empathy Map

• UX Pin - The Practical Guide to Empathy Maps: 10-Minute User Personas.
• Boagworld - Adapting empathy maps for UX design.

Storyboard

• UX Magazine - Storyboarding in the Software Design Process.
• Medium - Storyboarding in UX Design.
• NN Group - When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps.
• UX Lady - Experience maps, user journeys and more.
• Smashing Magazine - All You Need To Know About Customer Journey Mapping.