Design Pitfalls VS Built for Mars

I found Design for Hackers[1] to be an incredibly informative book; it provides a great deal of insight into UI patterns, color schemes and selections, and overall UI design. It's definitely more oriented towards graphical UIs but provides enough general insight into design considerations that you could generalize it for TUIs and CLIs if needed. [1]: https://designforhackers.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Looking at what other people are saying and your responses, it sounds like your actual question is more like "is it possible that I'll end up doing (stuff I'm not practiced at)?", which, maybe! Maybe you'll get hired at a smaller place than you expect, and will be doing more design work than you planned. Maybe you'll want to be able to explain to the designers that you can't do X because Y, but you can suggest Z... Source: over 1 year ago

Try these: https://designforhackers.com/ https://www.interaction-design.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Sounds like you want to learn more about design. Checkout Design for Hackers and The Non Designer's Design Book for some design fundamentals. Source: about 2 years ago

Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places but I’m tired of seeing numbered lists of “Design trends to look out for in 202X” with 4 sentences of text between them. I crave longer forms of writing that explains the design aspect of this field. (The only resource I’ve found satisfying was Built for Mars ). Source: over 1 year ago

Some other recommendations: Don’t Make me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug https://builtformars.com/ UX case studies https://www.nngroup.com/ UX analyses and articles Coursera has some UX courses you can audit for free. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Consider that even if you don't have a big portfolio of work, you can do analysis of existing apps / websites / experiences, even a game. Take a look at the case studies here: https://builtformars.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

You might enjoy these case studies: builtformars.com They are slides + articles instead of video but very interesting and entertaining. Source: over 1 year ago

There are also nice walkthrough websites you can learn a lot from: Growth.design Built for Mars. Source: almost 2 years ago