CrashCourse Fall 2014: Product Design

# DIY design curriculum
 
* [Skillshare design classes](http://www.skillshare.com/classes/design)
 
Books to read:
 
* [Designing for People](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AB1NLFO?btkr=1) by Henry Dreyfuss
 
# Where to find design patterns/trends
 
For design patterns along the lines of "how do I present a bunch of information?" or "how should user profiles be organized?"
 
* [Android Patterns](http://www.androidpatterns.com/): wireframes of generic use cases (notifications, 'dealing with data')
* [PatternTap](http://patterntap.com/): screenshots of existing designs on desktop and mobile sorted by type of content/display
* [Mobile Patterns](http://www.mobile-patterns.com/): screenshots of various mobile apps sorted by type of display/functionality
* [Inspired UI](http://inspired-ui.com/): similar to Mobile Patterns

For looking at other people's work (good for picking up on design 'trends' and common patterns):

* [siteInspire](http://www.siteinspire.com/): gallery of web design inspiration. The [product design](http://www.siteinspire.com/websites?categories=55) category is probably the most helpful.
 
* [Lovely UI](http://www.lovelyui.com/)
* [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/): some of the 'design' work is a bit too navel-gazing and more about fancy visual design than solving product problems, but you can also use it to get an overview of current interaction trends