Improve your skills, become more productive and build your resumé with these training and certification programs and resources.

Adobe® Training and Certification

• Instructor-led courses
  
• Certification programs
• Events and seminars
• Professional development workshops
• Online training
• Books, DVDs and CD-ROMs

Microsoft® Silverlight Community

Includes dozens of videos designed for all Silverlight designers and developers, from the novice to the professional.

Web Design Library
An internationally refereed resource that provides a platform for the dissemination of design thinking and research.

UXnet: The User Experience Network  
UXnet connects people, organizations, resources and ideas to enable the growth and maturation of user experience as a practice, a community and eventually a discipline.

UsabilityNews
The top usability stories, job postings and events.

Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0
This book shows developers how to visually enhance applications built with Flex and AIR through a combination of thoughtful design and structure implemented through skinning, styling, transitions and effects, and Photoshop-like filters.

Customer Experience Matters
Bruce Temkin, VP and principal customer experience analyst at Forrester Research, shares his thoughts on customer experience, branding and leadership.

freshAIRapps
Showcase, tutorials and resources for Adobe AIR

Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
The premier text on software usability, this book gives concrete, actionable methodologies and tools to improve the ease-of-use, usefulness and satisfaction of a system.

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
This book segments discussions of Web usability into page, content, site and intranet design. Nielsen uses research and many examples to communicate his guidelines.

Cost-justifying Usability by Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. Mayhew
If you are trying to convince your organization of the need for usability, Cost-Justifying Usability is the book for you. It gives the business case for why and how usability saves companies money in the long haul. The book has many case studies and techniques for quantifying usability.
 
SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-human Interaction)
This premier international society brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation and study of interactive computing systems for human use. ACM SIGCHI provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).

The Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)
Supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Members come from across the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience.

InsideRIA
An O’Reilly blog network that focuses on rich Internet applications, covering AJAX, Flex, Silverlight and AIR, and talking about what it means to be an RIA.

An Introduction to Degrafa
Learn some of the theory behind Degrafa, the basics of composition, advanced implementations and how the framework may fit into your Flex or AIR projects.

The Flex Show
A weekly podcast with news and interviews about Adobe Flex and related technologies.

Lynda.com
Instructional books, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students and hobbyists.

Gotoandlearn.com
Video tutorials on the Flash Platform.

Total Training
Online and DVD-based training for leading creative design, digital video, and office productivity software programs.

Cooper U
A practical collection of courses that help product team members improve their effectiveness from early planning all the way through implementation.

Human Factors International
Complete certification package for usability.

Community MX
Articles, tutorials, extensions and support forums for every Macromedia product and every Web discipline.

Presenting Data and Information by Edward Tufte
A one-day course in the fundamental strategies of information design taught by Edward Tufte, author of “Beautiful Evidence.”

The Information Architecture Institute
Books, internships, mentoring, online communities and formal study on the craft of information architecture.

InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
Book and journal recommendations to help people and organizations achieve understanding through the creation of relevant, clear and memorable information.

UX Magazine
An online, monthly magazine that covers the best new thinking on design, strategy, technology and common sense.

PeepCode Screencasts
A high-intensity way to learn Ruby on Rails website development.

Railscasts
Free screencasts for learning the Ruby on Rails programming framework.

Curl Developer Community
Community blog, training center, resource center, Ask-the-Expert and special interest groups for developers on the Curl platform.