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UX Department Learning and Development
This page contains links to internal and external resources that members of the UX Department at GitLab can use to build their skills.
Welcome to Learning and Development for the UX Department at GitLab! You are welcome to explore content here for now. We’ll update this page when we add this content to GitLab 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 GitLab and in their career as a whole.
Most of the resources here are free but any content requiring payment can be reimbursed following the GitLab reimbursement policies.
Growth and Development
GitLab provides team members with the growth and development benefit to access external resources to develop their career. To take advantage of this benefit, review the company handbook page and follow the process.
Managers should add approved growth and development programs to the department spreadsheet tracker in order to track departmental budget.
Mentoring and coaching
College-level course involvement
Product design
Books
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
LinkedIn Learning
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
Courses
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
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
Jobs to be Done
Handbook Links
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
Handbook
Videos
- GitLab 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 GitLab.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 GitLab
- UX collaboration on Growth experiments at GitLab
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
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
Unfiltered Videos
- GitLab Design Talks: Rayana Verissimo talks about career development and design leadership
- GitLab Design Talks: Lorie Whitaker talks about the role of a Staff UX Researcher
- GitLab Design talks: Marcel van Remmerden talks about career development and design leadership
- GitLab Design talks: Pedro Moreira da Silva talks about navigating the IC career path in UX
Other Resources
LinkedIn Learning
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
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 GitLab resources
Handbook Links
- Product Management Learning and Development - a comprehensive list of internal and external resources that Product Managers at GitLab 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. - GitLab Book Clubs project
- Leadership Book clubs
Last modified February 7, 2024: Add G&D spreadsheet tracker to UX handbook (
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