Apologies as most of these do not have links.
Books - Best thing you can learn from usually
- About Face by Cooper
- Thoughtless Acts?: Observations on Intuitive Design
- Design as Art
- Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography
- Thinking in Systems
- Sprint
- Creative Confidence
- MTIV Process, Inspiration, and Practice for the New Media Designer
- The Social Animal
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Learning from Las Vegas
- Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
- How to by Michael Bierut
- The Personal MBA
- Rework by Jason Fried
- The Art of Innovation
- Ogilvy on Advertising
- The Systems View of Life
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
- Compendium For Literates
- Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design
- Writings by Bret Victor
- Design of Everyday Things
Forums
- spectrum.chat
- twitter, I follow some cool folks you might want to
- product hunt
- dribbble
Email Newsletters
- Webdesigner News
- Your Majesty Co. '10 Things'
- UI Movement
- If there's an agency or company you like look into their socials too
- Neilson Norman
- Visual Soldiers' ArmoryFor new tools that could be integral to your process.
- Hey Designer another great general newsletter for product people and designers.
Sites
- UX Design thinking for kids
- The Verge
- Code For America
- CSSDesignAwards
- Muzli
* Kids' Computer Essentials: Graphic Design
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Just read design stuff on medium and it'll recommend you things. You can look at my follower's too. To name a few..
Events
- Creative Mornings (Meh, but can be good)
- TED
- 99U
Podcasts & Video Series
- 99% Invisble
- Getting Real
- Design Details (Great Interviews)
- High Resolution (Even better Interviews)
- Product Breakfast Club
Tools
- MindNode, a great mindmapping tool
- Creating easy simple diagrams
- Whimsical for flow charts and mind maps between people
- pencil and paper, I like the panobook a lot
- Understand the structure of a website through a generated site-map usingVisualSiteMaps
- Cleanshot, an easy and better alternative to taking screenshots
- Pixelmator Pro, a better alternative to photoshop when you don't want to spend hours learning to do something simple.
- Sip, the best color picker ever
- Contrast, the best contrast checker out there
- Figma
- Metatags.io, an easy and pretty metatag checker and preview site.