A list of design concepts every UX/UI designer should learn

It is important for every new UX/UI Designer to know the key words of their profession and what they mean, as it can help them understand the value of Design and the mechanics of the design as a craft.

So here I am sharing the list of UX/UI Jargons that every aspiring or new designer should know and learn.

Note: Credits goes to all those people who have written these beautiful blogs to share their knowledge with the world. 👏 👏

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📚 📝 UX Terms

UX Pyschology

Home | Laws of UX

The Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know

Gestalt principles - Scholarpedia

User Research and Psychology by Mona Patel - Mind the Product

How people make decisions | Designing for Tomorrow - A Discussion on Ethical Design | 7 steps to…

How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Former Insider

Behavior Model

Digital Psychology

UX Methods

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Most Common UX Design Methods and Techniques

How to simplify your design

UX Design Framework

UX Strategy

The Experience Vision: A Self-Fulfilling UX Strategy

The 11 Minute Guide to Bulletproof UX Strategy

The Importance of UX Strategy

Design Process

The UX design process in 6 stages | Inside Design Blog

The Design Sprint - GV

Human-Centered Design process diagram

Design Thinking 101

Design Thinking: A Method for Creative Problem Solving

Building Better Products by Exploring Workflows and Design Processes

Delicious Digital Design Process

Design Is a Process, Not a Methodology

How to apply a design thinking, HCD, UX or any creative process from scratch

Design Research

The 9 Rules of Design Research

An introduction to guerrilla research

Top Questions To Ask Before Designing Anything

Are You Solving the Right Problems?

Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design Principles

Inclusive Design Part 1

Inclusive Design Part 2

Inclusive Design Principles

Universal Design

The 7 Principles | Centre for Excellence in Universal Design

Readability Test Results for universaldesign.ie/What-is-Universal-Design/The-7-Principles/

Accessibility

How to Create Interfaces that Benefit All: Accessibility Testing and Inclusive Design Principles

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

Designing for accessibility is not that hard

WAVE Web Accessibility Tool

Empathy Mapping

Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking

User Research

Humans, not Users

Quantitative User-Research Methodologies: An Overview

The Art of the User Interview

Seeing the Elephant: Defragmenting User Research

The ultimate guide to stakeholder interviews: understand your clients

How to run remote user research (like a boss!)

UX Research Cheat Sheet

UX Worksheets

User Interviews

User Interviews: How, When, and Why to Conduct Them

User Journey

A Beginner’s Guide To User Journey Mapping

The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love

Mental Models

Designing for the mental model

Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways

Leveraging Mental Models in Product Design

User Personas

What are & How to Create Personas: Step-by-Step Guidelines of Everything

Kill Your Personas

Affinity Diagram

Affinity Diagramming: Collaboratively Sort UX Findings & Design Ideas

UX Microcopy

My favourite microcopy

How to build a better product with UX writing

The microcopyist: cancellation, confirmation, conflagration

Gamification

Gamification: Understanding The Basics

Dark Patterns

Dark patterns in UX: how designers should be responsible for their actions

Dark Patterns

UX Deliverables

The 10 UX Deliverables Top Designers Use

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💻 🎨 UI Terms (Visual)

Visual Design

Visual design elements and principles - Wikipedia

Crash Course: UI Design

10 Basic Principles of Visual Design

7 Basic Design Principles We Forget About

Design System

Eight Things You Need To Know About Design Systems

How to construct a design system

Design System Fundamentals

Micro Design Systems — breaking the monolith

Adele - Design Systems and Pattern Libraries Repository

How to Build a Design System with a Small Team

EightShapes

Grids

8-Point Grid: Borders And Layouts

Intro to The 8-Point Grid System

Space in Design Systems

Information Architecture

How to Create Information Architecture for Web Design

Information architecture: a UX designer’s guide

UI Icons

Hopefully, the Ultimate Guide to an Interface Icon Set

Solid Vs. Outline Icons: Which Are Faster to Recognize?

Typography

Getting Typography Right in Digital Design

Typography In Mobile Design — 15 Best Practices To Excellent UI

Interaction Design

Principles of Interaction Design: What It Takes to Create Positive Human-Computer Interactions

AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design

Heuristic Evaluation

10 tips on how to conduct a perfect Heuristic evaluation

Heuristic Analysis for UX: How to Run a Usability Evaluation

7+ Sample Heuristic Evaluations - PDF, Word

Empty states

Empty States? More like You-Have-No-Idea-How-Much-Work-Goes-Into-Those States, amirite??

Motion Design

Adding value to your design by understanding motion and its tools

Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto

Disney’s motion principles in designing interface animations

The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX

Motion Design Doesn’t Have to Be Hard

Adding value to your design by understanding motion and its tools

Get started with motion design in 9 steps

Prototyping

Why prototyping is a must for designers

App Design

Why 7 seconds could make or break your mobile app

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🌎 Other Useful Design Words

Conversational Design (VUI)

Designing a VUI — Voice User Interface

Learn about conversation - Conversation design

Voice Principles | Clearleft

Principles of Cortana skill design - Cortana

Get Started with the Guide | Alexa Skills Kit

AI in UX

Design makes AI smarter

You can be an AI designer

Human-Centered Machine Learning

An intro to Machine Learning for designers

Experience Design in the Machine Learning Era

Designer-friendly Resources to Study AI and Machine Learning

Autonomous Design

AI visual design is already here — and it won’t hesitate to take over your petty design job

Design Documentation

Designing Better Design Documentation

Design Ethics

A Designer's Code of Ethics - Mule

A Designer’s Code of Ethics

Soft Skills in Design

Storytelling: the ultimate UX skill

Work skills for the modern design workplace

Whiteboard Challenges

Practical whiteboarding for UX designers

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📘Worth Reading Design Blogs

Understanding Product/Market Fit: From Start to Finish

Design should be for people, not for designers

The Issue Behind Any Design Process

100 example UX problems

Optical Effects in User Interfaces: An Illustrated Guide

Design Thinking vs Design Sprints, what’s the difference?

These are some of the words that I have collected and studied to get into the space of design and I hope this list could also help any other design beginner or any aspiring designer to get into this beautiful space of design.

This is not a complete list of design words, There is always a need of update and I would update this list once I find new words. You can also suggest words that you have studied, I would love to add them into this list.

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