Director of UX at MailChimp and author of Designing for Emotion (A Book Apart).

Publisher of some really great design and web development books. These books inspired me to write this one!

Co-founder of Dribbble, an online show-and-tell for designers, and SimpleBits LLC web design studio. Dan is an extremely talented designer and offers a great deal of insight into the world of usability and design.

The group hosts an expansive website about the world of design. They also produce an incredible podcast series called “Design Matters,” hosted by Debbie Millman.

User-experience design agency based in Denver, Colorado, that uses Twitter to help folks stay abreast of leading design trends and shifts in the industry. It’s also behind the book Effective UI (O’Reilly), which I used to prepare the section on usability studies.

A world leader in user-centered design that keeps you plugged into emerging trends with supportive articles.

An internationally recognized digital product leader and author of Mobile First (A Book Apart), which makes the case that websites should be designed to be considerate of mobile devices.

Jeff Sauro is the author of Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics of User Research (Morgan Kaufmann) and founder of Measuring Usability, a research firm that helps companies quantify their user experience.

Campbell is a funny and amazingly talented designer. He hosts a motion design website as well as a general design podcast called Greyscalegorilla.

Founded by Jakob Nielson and Don Norman, this group is the leading agency in usability and user-centered design.

Roman is the host of 99% Invisible, an absolutely fantastic podcast series on design.

Editor Stephen Coles on fonts and typography.

A leading research, training, and consulting firm that specialized in UX and website and product usability. It has great suggestions from the entire spectrum of usability concerns.

An online publication about the complex field of user experience. It’s comprised of very talented writers who produce thought-provoking and engaging articles.

With a focus on agility, Balsamiq is a great tool to communicate early mockups, layouts, and design. Balsamiq uses a hand-drawn effect for all of its widgets, which creates an experience that feels conceptual and iterative.

Axure RP Pro provides a great deal of sophistication for a prototyping tool. Axure allows you to use widgets, and by adjusting their sketchiness, you can quickly change the fidelity of your prototype. Additionally, Axure RP Pro provides robust events and conditional framework so that you can set basic actions to occur in response to clicks and key presses.

A magazine that explores design, content strategy, development, standards, and practices. The primary focus is on web development.

Created by the folks at A List Apart, A Book Apart has published a collection of books that focus on topics like HTML5, CSS, content strategy, and more. The best thing about these books is their size and informal tone. They are easy to read and fun!

Devoted to the practice and discussion of design, interaction design, information architecture, and the business of design.

.net is a magazine for web designers and developers. Topics range from tutorials on the latest design trends to interviews with the Web’s biggest designers.

One of the world’s leading online publishing companies in the field of web design and web development. This website is a culmination of daily articles and tips from leading experts in the UX design industry.

Authored by Jakob Nielsen, one of the foremost experts in the field of usability and user experience. The site is full of articles with his opinions on the latest design trends. If you want to be where the usability discussion begins, this is the place to be.

Provides insights and inspiration to professionals at every level as they journey through the world of user experience.