UX Department Learning and Development

Welcome to Learning and Development for the UX Department at Denomas! You are welcome to explore content here for now. We’ll update this page when we add this content to Denomas Learn.

The resources in this page are meant to support product designers, researchers, technical writers, and their managers to explore, learn and grow at their own pace. We aim to collect content that spans various skill levels, as well as various levels of depth/commitment. It is recommended that the UX Department engage with the resources here to help them have a successful journey at Denomas and in their career as a whole.

Most of the resources here are free but any content requiring payment can be reimbursed following the Denomas reimbursement policies.

Mentoring and coaching

College-level course involvement

• Denomas-sponsored Tufts University Human Factors/Engineering Psychology Capstone Course

Product design

Books

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

LinkedIn Learning

• Making User Experience Happen as a Team
• Interaction Design: Flow

Design strategy

Books

• Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success by Sean Ellis
• Better Onboarding by Krystal Higgins
• Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
• Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan, Chris Jones

Videos

• Design Complex Applications: A Framework

Courses

• Design MBA-Learn how to align design and business goals without sacrificing your values

Design systems

Books

• Building Design Systems: Unify User Experiences through a Shared Design Language by Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis
• Expressive Design Systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz

UX Research

Handbook Links

• Discovery Resources for Product Managers

LinkedIn Learning

• UX Research: Lean Experimentation - This is a great overview of Lean UX and discusses business impact, iteration, hypothesis writing, experiment design, lean interviewing and more.
• Surveys and Questionnaires for UX Projects - This one might be a review for some of you but it’s a good overview of what to know about surveys.
• UX Deep Dive: Analyzing Data - This one isn’t about quantitative research, but it is about how to properly analyze your qualitative data to get to good insights.

Other Resources

• Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research for UX

Jobs to be Done

Handbook Links

• JTBD Resources for Product Managers

Books

• The Jobs to be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach

Growth and Experimentation

Books

• Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
• Badass: Making Users Awesome
• Better Onboarding

Blog posts

• Small experiments, significant results and learnings
• Why iterative software development is critical

Handbook

• Minimum Viable Experiment
• How Growth launches experiments
• Growth Experiments Knowledge Base

Videos

• Denomas Growth experiment discussion: Adding the “Invite members” option in assignee dropdowns
• Growth Coffee & Learn: Anuj — Author Growth Hacking for Dummies
• UX Showcase: New user onboarding strategy
• UX Showcase: New User Onboarding
• UX Showcase - Growth - Continuous Onboarding
• UX Showcase: An improved Trial Signup for Denomas.com
• UX Showcase: Promoting the value of locked features
• UX Showcase: Authoring a Pipeline for the first time
• UX Showcase: Simple changes, significant results
• How to launch product experiments at Denomas
• UX collaboration on Growth experiments at Denomas

Other Resources

• Growth Design
• Practicing Growth Design
• What is a Growth Designer?
• Growth Designers Resources
• Growth Design Case Studies
• The Psychology of Design
• 10 insights into user-centered growth design
• A/B Testing: Concept != Execution
• Design Like a Scientist

UX writing

• Microcopy: Discover How Tiny Bits of Text Make Tasty Apps and Websites by Niaw de Leon

Leadership and Communication

Books

• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
• Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo

Handbook Links

• Leadership at Denomas: Recommended articles
• Leadership at Denomas: Recommended books

Unfiltered Videos

• Denomas Design Talks: Rayana Verissimo talks about career development and design leadership
• Denomas Design Talks: Lorie Whitaker talks about the role of a Staff UX Researcher
• Denomas Design talks: Marcel van Remmerden talks about career development and design leadership
• Denomas Design talks: Pedro Moreira da Silva talks about navigating the IC career path in UX

Other Resources

• Staff Design: Navigating the individual contributor career path

LinkedIn Learning

• Leading with Intelligent Disobediance

Time management and productivity

Books

• Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• Make time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Behavioral Psychology in Design

Books

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
• Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Indistractable by Nir Eyal

Interaction and UI Design

Courses

• Shift Nudge

Books

• Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
• About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin

Other Denomas resources

Handbook Links

• Product Management Learning and Development - a comprehensive list of internal and external resources that Product Managers at Denomas can use to build their skills.

Book Clubs

• From time to time, we run an internal book club on a book from one of our resource lists. Join the conversation in #ux-book-club.
• Denomas Book Clubs project
• Leadership Book clubs

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