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Yes, now, we’ve compiled them just for you 💎! I’ve open-sourced my design playbook to help designers boost their skills, frameworks & knowledge with 500+ design resources, 80+ learning videos, and 1,000+ UI templates (plus even more via Twitter).

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📖 Recommended Books

• Design of Everyday Things — famous for explaining usability with lots of great practical, real-world examples

• Don’t Make Me Think — a classic for web design

• One Minute Manager — on delegating well

• Radical Candor— on giving feedback

• Universal Principles of Design — a great guide to keep around

• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to know about People — on Psychology

• Thoughtless Acts?: Observations on Intuitive Design — just a fun one

• Steal Like an Artist — nothing is original

• Thinking with Type — great for typography basics

• Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Tufte classic

• More management books here and in 3 tools for design managers

📺 Documentaries and videos

• Objectified, Helvetica, Urbanized, and probably any future Hustwit films

• IDEO shopping cart video — the masters of the design process

• Netflix’s Abstract Series — fun and covers a wide range of topics

• High-resolution video series— 25 interviews with product designers

🔮 News, Updates, and Inspiration

• Twitter— my primary source for design news.

• Dribbble — visit daily for visual inspiration

• Sidebar.io— best aggregation/summary of top 5 articles per day

• Design Details Podcast — keep up listening to many other podcasts

• designernews.co — stay up to date with trends.

• producthunt.com — new products/inspiration

💎 UI Pattern Libraries

• UI Garage

• ui-patterns.com

• Mobbin.com — specifically great for mobile design inspiration

• mobile-patterns.com

• pttrns

• Useful Sources for Design Patterns and Wireframes Guides

• The Design Pattern & Wireframe Libraries Guide

• UX Archive

• UI Movement — library specifically for UI motion and animation

• Design Patterns for Mental Health — pattern library for digital mental health services.

If you have any other amazing resources or templates you regularly use across design or product, please shoot them over. I’ll use this post as a living document of the best design resources.

That’s it for this week 🙏!

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