User Experience Design (UED) breaks into many specialties such as user research, information architecture, conceptual design, interaction design, etc. Wikipedia does a great job of defining the field and the specialties:
DEFINTION:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Here are some good introductory books on the subject. Design books tend to be expensive, so I would recommend looking for them at your library, or used.
BOOKS
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
by Dan Brown
http://www.amazon.com/gp
Designing Interfaces
by Jennifer Tidwell
http://www.amazon.com/gp
Universal Principles of Design
by William Lidwell
http://www.amazon.com/Universal
The Visual Display of quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte (and his other books too)
http://www.amazon.com/Visual
ORGs & CONFERENCES
http://iainstitute.org/
http://www.aiga.org/
http://www.chi2006.org/
PRACTITIONERS & COMPANIES
http://www.lukew.com/
http://www.adaptivepath.com/
http://www.catalystresources
http://www.adaptivepath.com/
http://semanticstudios.com/
BLOGS
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
http://uxmatters.com/
And finally, here are some links to examples of actual design deliverables. These are the docs and diagrams a UED professional makes. They provide an idea of what an interface designer actually creates on a day to day basis:
PDF example deliverables:
http://iainstitute.org/tools/
How to: Deliverables & Documentation
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
How to: Methods & Approaches
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
Learning From Others
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
Professional Practices
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
HUMOR
http://www.ok-cancel.com/
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