Are you just getting started in your UX design education? Or are you a seasoned veteran looking for a refresher and some inspiration? Regardless of your experience level, it’s important to remain a lifelong learner within the constantly evolving UX design industry.
In this article, we share some of our favorite UX design blogs that can help educate and inspire you.
30 of the Best UX Design Blogs to Follow This Year
While you can find textbooks and magazines on the subject, blogs are an accessible and free way to learn more about UX design. We’ve curated this list of the top 31 UX design blogs you can reference throughout your UX design education journey and career.
1. Abduzeedo
Abuzeedo was founded over 15 years ago as a personal blog by Fabio Sasso, but has become a hub of inspiring articles about design, photography, and UX.
Peruse the blog to learn new techniques, read an analysis of UX/UI case studies, or see what other UX designers are working on in the industry.
2. Awwwards
Awwwards is a blog and website that looks to award the greatest and brightest UX designers out there. By doing so, it also curates a collection of top-of-the-line websites you can look to for inspiration.
3. Chameleon
Chameleon is a software that enables SaaS businesses to offer customized in-app messages and in-product widgets to their users, through product tours, onboarding flows, continuous feedback with Microsurveys, and more. In other words: they offer a powerful tool to help make products more inviting to users, as well as give you the opportunity to collect valuable information from users from inside the product itself. From articles that range from behavioral analytics to onboarding UX/UI patterns, their blog offers a new perspective for your UX design work.
4. Codrops
Codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques, and new possibilities. If you’re interested in front-end development and how its nuances affect UX design, this will definitely be a blog to watch.
5. Brush Up by Creative Market
Brush Up by Creative Market is a blog that curates an in-depth list of design trends, free assets, tutorials, and new fonts and templates you can try. Because of this blog’s format, you can quickly browse through new ideas in the industry and get inspired to make your ideas into a reality.
I’m a huge fan of Creative Market because it always has a wide array of ideas for all things design. From fonts, vectors, backgrounds, templates, and mockups, there’s always something interesting. If we’re working on a design and we get stuck, this is the number one place we go to when we need to get inspired. - Petra Odak, Chief Marketing Officer at Better Proposals
6. Design Better by InVision
Whether you’re looking for a great podcast, in-depth ebook, or educational resources that will help you become a better designer, Design Better by InVision has something for everyone. While there is a lot of introductory content (especially in the form of ebooks), you’ll find that it’s always interwoven with thought-provoking, advanced design philosophies.
7. Designlab
The Designlab blog is full of tips, videos, tutorials, and unique viewpoints that every new UX designer should consider. Not to mention, we give you all kinds of free stuff, like webinars with industry pros; free 7-day email courses to learn software like Figma and Sketch; and thought leadership on where the industry is going and how best to break in now.
I don’t know what the team at Designlab is smoking, but holy crap they have some awesome free content. - Adrian Ross
8. Design Shack
If you want to find inspiring examples of UX design alongside helpful resources and blogs to improve your design skills, Design Shack is the place for you.
Design Shack engages and draws a broad audience including designers, businesses agencies (including mine), organizations, and individuals who are enthusiastic about cutting edge web design technologies and design news. - Steward Dunlop from PPC Genius
9. Dribbble
If you’re looking for a design site with great visuals, the Dribbble community provides designers with inspiration, connection, and allows people to showcase their work. In addition, they also share interviews with design recruiters and other insights for those looking for work.
10. Envato Tuts+
Envato Tuts+ is an excellent resource for WordPress users who want to find new plugins and themes. It also publishes a blog that is full of tutorial content that can help guide newcomers to the UX design world.
11. Inside Design
Inside Design is InVision’s main blog, with topics that range from basic UX best practices and tutorials to more advanced thought leadership pieces by professional designers.
12. Jared Spool’s UIE Center Centre
Jared Spool is a well-known name in the world of usability and software design. On the UI Center Centre website, he shares a wealth of insight and information about the real impact of UX design on software and business goals.
13. The Justinmind Blog
Justinmind is a free prototyping tool for UX and UI designers that’s both easy to use and incredibly powerful. Likewise, the content that they produce on their blog maintains an impressive balance of being incredibly digestible and actionable for new and experienced UX designers.
14. Layout by Flywheel
Flywheel is a website hosting company that’s beloved by web designers and developers for its speed and security. Its blog, Layout, has a dedicated section for design-related topics that are extremely actionable. Flywheel’s blog provides how-tos for all kinds of UX design features.
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15. A List Apart
A List Apart is an online periodical with articles that explore the design, development, and meaning of web content. They have a special focus on web standards and best practices.
16. Muzli
With a seemingly endless list of inspiring websites, Muzli is a UX design blog that keeps on giving. For over five years, they have been updating their content weekly, so they give you access to a wealth of design ideas.
[Muzli] has helped me solve many challenges that I had to face when working on my portfolio. Additionally, the user-specific tips and tricks combined with a weekly dose of inspiration are the reasons that make me go back to read this blog quite often. - Atta Ur Rehman from Gigworker
17. Nielsen Norman Group
Nielsen Norman Group produces a blog that covers specific and helpful UX design topics like psychology and UX, writing for the web, and user testing.
When I was first starting out, I spent a lot of time combing through the Nielsen Norman Group. Their blog is incredibly professional but also beginner-friendly. It’s easy to understand and much of the information is backed by studies. - Rex Freiberger, CEO of Gadget Review
18. Onextrapixel
If you want to go beyond just gaining inspiration, Onextrapixel gives its readers an in-depth analysis of new design trends and case studies on what works and what doesn’t. So, this blog is helpful if you want to be inspired by things that are known to work.
19. Sarah Doody
Sarah Doody is a well-known UX professional who not only provides UX audits and solutions for big name companies like Dow Jones and the Skimm, but also offers an incredibly powerful program for other UX designers who are looking for help getting hired. The content on her blog is extremely actionable and results-based, meant for UX designers who are focused on making an impact with their work.
20. Service Design Magazine
Service Design Magazine is a Medium publication that’s dedicated towards the service design aspects of user experience. This content is incredibly valuable for anyone who is looking for a more holistic approach to empathizing with user needs and delivering a robust design solution.
21. Sidebar.io
Sidebar is a great resource for designers to highlight their projects and engage with a community. In addition to design-specific articles, there’s also a wealth of more technically-focused content geared towards CSS and front end development.
22. Smashing Magazine
Perhaps one of the most famous UX design blogs, Smashing Magazine consistently produces high-quality articles that are useful, reliable, and give practical advice on how to improve your website’s design and development.
This category published really informative articles on interaction design, usability, information architecture, and different user experience related topics—for digital and physical products. - Mark Condon, CEO and founder of Shotkit
23. Speckyboy
Speckyboy pushes out high-quality content that gives you insight on design tips, trends, UX design case studies, and freelancing advice. The articles on this site tend to be geared towards readers who are familiar with (or interested in) a holistic approach to website design and development, and often include code or WordPress-specific content.
24. UX Planet
UX Planet is a one-stop resource for those interested in learning about UX design and user research. They deliver impressively, regularly publishing articles on everything from finding a job as a UX designer to product management. You may even spot a Designlab article in their newsletter!
25. UX Matters
Good for beginners and experts, UX Matters brings you tips that will help you improve your UX work. This site also gives you access to professional UX designers that can answer your questions fast.
Following a good blog that encompasses everything related to your field of work can be very helpful, as it will allow you to keep up with the industry trends, and lead you to discover useful tools and resources. A blog that will do this and more for you in the UX design field is UX Matters. - Dmitrij Żatuchin PhD, CEO of DO OK
26. UX Collective
UX Collective is one of the most popular Medium blogs for UX designers. Sharing daily stories from contributors across a variety of topics related to UX design, this is a great daily resource for designers who are thinkers as much as they are makers.
27. UX Booth
If you’re looking for a community of designers who are passionate about UX design, UX Booth is a great space to share ideas, discuss best practices and trends, and interact with other creatives.
28. UX Design Weekly
UX Design Weekly is an ad-free weekly newsletter curated by Kenny Chen, a UX Designer from Los Angeles. Sign up to receive a weekly roundup of an incredibly curated list of links in the industry.
29. UX Magazine
UX Magazine is another online magazine that posts about the latest trends in UX design and UX strategy.
[UX Magazine] is almost a full-fledged trade magazine that UX designers can find. UX Magazine builds a community with location-based listings for workshops, talks, conferences, informal meetups, and classes. - Shayne Sherman, tech expert and CEO of Techloris
30. UXPin
UXPin is a helpful UX design and management tool that produces a blog that’s just as good. With topics like improving your brand’s style guide for UX and how to boost website performance, you’re sure to stay up to date on best practices.
Are you ready to take your UX design knowledge to the next level? Following these UX design blogs will help you learn about and stay up-to-date on this industry that is constantly evolving. But if you’re looking for an intensive online program and 1:1 mentoring that equips you with the UX design skills you need to land your first UX design role, we recommend exploring our UX Academy program.
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