Joel Marsh, author of The Composite Persuasion, has provided a very readable series online: UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals.

http://thehipperelement.com/post/75476711614/ux-crash-course-31-fundamentals

The following list isn’t everything you can learn in UX. It’s a quick overview, so you can go from zero-to-hero as quickly as possible. You will get a practical taste of all the big parts of UX, and a sense of where you need to learn more. The order of the lessons follows a real-life UX process (more or less) so you can apply these ideas as-you-go:

http://thehipperelement.com/post/75476711614/ux-crash-course-31-fundamentals