The Best Articles in UX

The most useful articles in UX from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 UX Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in UX by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. Removing uncertainty: the tip of the iceberg
  2. Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
  3. Navigating the Discovery Phase
  4. The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites
  5. Reversing UK mobile rail tickets

Videos

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Short Articles

Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in UX—all under 10 minutes.

Long Articles

These are some of the most-read long-form articles in UX.

Related Topics

Thought Leaders

We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in UX, including:

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Ryan Singer

Software designer, builder, product strategist, advisor. Author of Shape Up. Prev: 37signals. Email rjs@hey.com

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Meng To

Founder at @designcodeio. I teach designers code and developers design.

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zeldman

Author. Designer. Web Standards Godfather. Employer Brand at @Automattic. Publisher @AListApart + @ABookApart. Ava’s dad. Pete’s brother. He/him.

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Brad Frost

Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Author of Atomic Design. Mastadon: http://mastodon.social/@brad_frost

Publications

We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in UX, including:

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UX Collective

Curated stories on user experience, usability, and product design. By @fabriciot and @caioab.

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Nielsen Norman Group

User advocates offering evidence-based user experience (UX) research, training, consulting. Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, Tog, and colleagues.

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UX Planet

http://uxplanet.org official twitter account

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UX Magazine

Defining and informing the complex field of user experience (UX) through frequent publication of high-quality articles for experts and newcomers alike.

What is Refind?

Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Picking only a handful of links means focusing on what’s relevant and useful. We favor timeless pieces—links with long shelf-lives, articles that are still relevant one month, one year, or even ten years from now. These lists of the best resources on any topic are the result of years of careful curation.

How does Refind curate?

It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:

  1. We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
  2. In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
  3. Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
  4. Our community of active users gets the most relevant links every day, tailored to their interests. They provide feedback via implicit and explicit signals: open, read, listen, share, mark as read, read later, «More/less like this», etc.
  5. Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
  6. In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.

The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.

How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?

We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.

How many sources does Refind monitor?

We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.

Which sources does Refind monitor in UX?

We monitor hundreds of sources in UX, including UX Collective, Nielsen Norman Group, Smashing Magazine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ, UX Planet, UX Magazine, and many more.

Who are the thought leaders in UX?

We follow dozens of thought leaders in UX, including Ryan Singer, Meng To, zeldman, Brad Frost, πŸŽ† 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 πŸŒ„.

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