6 Favourite Medium Articles for Beginner UX Designers to Read
By: Kazim Cinar
Tags: Articles, UX Design, UI Design, Beginners Guide, Medium Brasil

There are many people who want to learn and work on the User Experience or User Interface Design considering several reasons including its extensity and the need all over the world. There are a couple of ways to learn such as taking online or private courses, reading books or blogs, watching Youtube videos. No doubt everybody has a different learning style and I believe that one must find the best fit method for himself/herself.

As one of those who have graduated from and work in jobs other than digital design but also are changing their roads to design during professional life, I had sorted steps here.

After taking an online course and watching several Youtube videos, I concentrated on Medium articles regarding UX & UI design. The good point is that I could and did read the articles during the inner-city-transportation, waiting times, and any time you in the day, which makes me feel really good that I used the idle time reading articles to create a new career path. Here I want to give my favorite articles giving me an expansive point of view.

1. Top Skills First-Year UX Designers Should Master

Keily Doran, UX Planet

In this article, the writer focuses on the necessary skills for a successful UX designer. According to the writer, within the UX design world, one has to work with others and that’s why interpersonal skills including analytical skills, creativity, collaborative mindset, and empathy to have are significant. On the other hand, “it’s vital for UX designers to maintain industry-specific skills that help them work more efficiently and creatively.” The article is also giving small guidance with regard to UX & UI articles.

2. 52 Research Terms you need to know as a UX Designer

Guy Ligertwood, UX Planet

It is not actually fun to read but gives certain terms of the profession with small but understandable explanations. You may need to read this article a bit slower and repeat it a few times to bear in mind exactly. But that is definitely beneficial especially for those who want to have comprehensive knowledge in the long run. Many words in the list have a relation to other IT spheres such as data analysis or marketing, which increases the remembrance-rate.

You can find a similar model article here in Bootcamp written by Christian Leong.

3. Inclusive UX Education: Designing a Free Online Learning Curriculum

Mitchell Wakefield, UX Planet

In this article, the writer evaluates the online and free courses such that anybody with financial disabilities but desire to learn and be a part of UX & UI design world may attend. With this article, I comprehended that there are many free opportunities in the design world for education. You only need time and passion. But be careful with time and fertility. You have to choose the best fit online course for yourself by comparing them considering their curriculum and content.

4. A guide to Motion Design principles

Micah Bowers, UX Collective

The article gives the idea of dynamic design that possibly takes more attention from the users. The movements are important for digital products because the human brain gets noticed more with the mobile(moving) applications. According to the writer, there are 12 motion design principles for digital products: 1.Easing, 2. Offset and delay, 3. Parenting, 4. Transformation, 5. Value Change, 6. Masking, 7. Overlay, 8.Cloning, 9.Obscuration, 10.Parallax, 11.Dimensionality, 12. Dolly and Zoom. For details click above.

5. Uses of illustration Inside UI Design

UI Blogger, UX Planet

The article focuses on the importance and certain effects of illustrations in UX & UI design projects. Illustrations may create far more impact on the users, which makes the professionals of this field use them to have a better experience. As stated in the article, there are plenty of uses of illustration, but the right choice of illustration depends on the customer firm’s needs and the demand of the users in the sector.

6. What is your UX process?

Nadeeka Athukorala, UX Collective

The writer in this article gives a small brief about the terms of UX and UI and then gives the key characteristics of a UX design process. The steps of design and the structure of the phases are examined in a unique way with her visuals.

Final Words

Here are the articles in Medium I like most within the last month. I strongly believe that there will be written much more high-quality articles about the field. From now on I will more be related to case studies and making my own design patterns, which in turn building my own portfolio.