Before it even started !

Hi there!

Before my course starts October 10th, I thought I should prepare for it and learn as much possible about everything.Yes this sounds vague but at this point I really am overwhelmed by the amount of topics and concepts UX design can refer to; I guess it is normal for an absolute beginner.

Once sure I wanted to do this course I started reading everything I could come across on the internet about UX and decided to divide UX Design into topics and then read the most relevant book or resource I could find on that topic.

Here they are:

UX Strategy - "Lean UX" by Jeff Gothelf.

User Research "Just Enough Research" by Erika Hall.

Information Architecture - "How to Make Sense of any Mess" by Abby Covert.

Interaction Design - "The Design of everyday things" by Don Norman.

Usability Testing - "Rocket Surgery Made Easy" by Steve Krug.

Visual Design - "The Non-Designers Design Book" by Robin Williams.

Coding - Learned HTML, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails and more at codecademy.com since January 2016. Check my website: http://www.simonw3.com.

SEO - "How to Get to the Top of Google" by Tim Kitchen and Google Adwords.

There are plenty of blogs and websites about UX that you can follow really just browse the web. Twitter is great to find and follow people who work and talk about UX.
I am going to mention one blog I like because actually it inspired me to name my blog: 52weeksofux.com by Joshua Porter.

Just remember, I am an absolute beginner and this might not be the best way start or the topics might not be exhaustive and/or the references might not be the best ones (sorry authors but who am I to know?). Anyway, I had to start somewhere. Success!

Week 1 starts October 10th! See you then :)