80+ UX, psychology and product design blogs & people to follow
Get started and progress in the user research and user experience design field!
I often get asked “where should I start, who should I follow to become a UX designer”. So here is a lit of UX research, psychology, product related blogs and people I follow. Those are listed in alphabetic order. Some of them might not be active anymore. But those are still full of great articles and resources to help you get started and progress in the user research and user experience design field.
** 🇫🇷 Pour les personnes francophones vous pouvez consulter “15 + blogs francophone sur l’UX Design (avec flux RSS)” **
Last updated: August 2023
30 + people with interesting UX, product design & accessibility blogs
Blogs on their own domain
- Aarron Walter‘s blog
- Alexa Heinrich’s blog (accessibility)
- Amy Bucher‘s blog (mostly about information architecture)
- Amy Hupe’s blog (design systems)
- Anna E. Cook’s blog (accessibility, inclusive design)
- Andrew Duckworth’s blog (a lot of content around different design topics)
- Clarissa Peterson (accessibility, diversity)
- Crystal Preston-Watson (mostly accessibility)
- Julie Chabin (tips about being a solo designer)
- Curiosity Tank, (UX research, mostly written by Michele Ronsen)
- Krystal Higgins (UX and onboarding)
- Dan Mall (design systems mostly)
- Denis Jacob‘s blog (creativity, and more)
- Enterprise UX Shreds by Peter Zalman
- Creativejuiz – UX category (blog of Geoffrey Crofte)
- Intelleto (blog of Kate Rutter)
- Jessica Ivins‘s blog (UX design)
- Eva Lotta Lamm (sketchnoting)
- Joe Leech‘s blog (psychology, product design)
- Jen Clinehens’s Choice Hacking blog (psychology, product growth)
- Jorge Arango‘s blog (mostly UX and information architecture)
- Luke Wroblewski‘s blog (UX, product design)
- Sarah Doody‘s blog (no articles since 2017)
- Susan Weinschen‘s blog (behavioral psychology)
- The Boagworld UX Blog + UX Design Advice
- THE HIPPER ELEMENT (Joel Marsh’s blog, no articles since 2018 but still great resources, also check this for backup outside tumblr)
- Users Know, Laura Klein’s blog
- UX psychology, a substack about UX and psychology by Dr Maria Panagiotidi
- Trent Walton‘s blog (design, design systems
People to follow on Medium
- Lisa Angela (UX design, inclusive design, diversity advocate)
- Paul Amat (UX and data)
- Dan Brown (UX design, design lenses)
- Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC (accessibility)
- Nathan Curtis (design systems)
- Darren Hood (UX research)
- Debbie Levitt (UX research)
- Erika Hall (UX research)
- Katrin Suetterlin (Accessibility, Inclusive Design)
- Pavel Samsonov (UX research)
- Runi Goswami (UX design, design systems)
- Stephanie Rieger (UX design)
- Trina Moore Pervall (UX For The Win) (UX design, inclusive design)
- Vivianne Castillo (UX design, inclusive design, trauma informed design)
- Yichen He (career in UX)
- Michael Knauer (UX strategy)
- UX knowledge Base Sketch, by Krisztina Szerovay
For more people to follow in the industry, go and check uxmustfollow.webflow.io !
People and publications on Substack
- UX Psychology maintained by Dr Maria Panagiotidi
- Data & Design by Kai Wong: on data and design, as the name suggests
- Iterate: general great things about technology
- The UX Collective Newsletter: a weekly digest of the UX collective content (some good and some meh AI stuff, you will need to sort out the noise I’m sorry)
- The UXR’s Annotations: UX research mostly
- Proof of Concept: creativity and experimentation for designers and entrepreneurs, by David Hoang
- Mixture: science and tech, by Eva Amsen
- Better by Design: design publication by Patrick Morgan
Now is also a good time to remind you that this blog has a RSS feed for the English posts (and also a RSS feed for the French posts). Also note that you can subscribe to get emails notifications every time I publish a new article.
40 + UX Design and User Research collective blogs
This is a list of collective blogs (some are held by consulting agencies) with articles related to user experience design and user research:
- A List Apart: The Full Feed (a lot of content on web design, UX design, accessibility and more)
- Baymard Institute (many studies on different topics, a lot of ecommerce)
- Experientia – putting people first (UX research and strategy)
- Foolproof UK (Medium) (UX research and strategy)
- iA.net (Information architecture)
- MeasuringU (UX measurement)
- NN/g latest articles
- PulseUX Blog
- Radical Product on Medium (product strategy)
- Sketchplanations (great visual explanations)
- Smashing Magazine, more specifically the “UX” category.
- Smart Interface Design Patterns by Vitaly Friedman (dedicated to UX and UI patterns)
- SuperFriendly Articles (design, design systems)
- R Before D – Delta CX‘s collective Medium publication
- ThinkUX (UX design and research)
- Think Company (UX design, research, strategy)
- UsabilityGeek (UX research, product design)
- User Onboarding (UX onboarding)
- User research in government (blog of the UK government UX team)
- UserTesting Blog
- UX Booth (UX research, design and strategy)
- UX Collective – Medium
- UX Daily – User Experience Daily from Interaction Foundation Design
- User Focus (UX research, strategy)
- UX Insigh’s UX research resources
- UX Magazine (UX research, strategy)
- UX Mastery (UX research, strategy)
- UX Myths (debunking myths about UX)
- UXPA User Experience Professionals Association and UXPA Journal
- UXM – UX for the masses (UX research and strategy)
- Viget Articles (design, UI, UX)
Archived UX blogs
Those are no longer updated but still have tones of amazing content
- Boxes and Arrows (no new articles, still a great resource)
- The UX Blog- Medium (no more posts since 2018)
- Usability.gov (archive of the usability gov blog with still great content and templates)
- UsabilityPost (on hold but still good articles in the archives)
- UX Tools.co (no more articles since 2022 but the newsletter is alive)
- UX Passion (no articles since 2017 but still good resources in the archives)
- UXcellence (no more content since 2019)
- UXmas a yearly advent calendar with 24 articles in December, the archives is a gold mine of amazing resources
- Wireframes Magazine (no articles since 2016 though)
- 52 Weeks of UX
Commercial tool with interesting blogs
Many UX (and non UX) tools have now blogs where they share resources and tips. Here’s a list of some I actually read and trust (note that the quality for the article depends on the author though)
- Inside Intercom
- People Nerds, Dscout’s blog
- Studio by UXPin
- User Brain
- UX Tweaks’s blog
9 UX Related podcasts
- Delta CX Live Streamed Podcasts
- UX Guide to the Galaxy
- Design Better Podcast
- Noise – Creativity & design
- [Spotify] [Apple Podcast] The World of UX with Darren Hood
- [Youtube] A Lense a Day – a podcast on information architecture
- Podcast – d.MBA
- Tech for Good Live
- UI Breakfast Podcast – UI Breakfast
- User Defenders: UX Design and Personal Growth
- UX Podcast
- What is Wrong with UX
- Tech Wrap Queen
Photo in the header by Mariia Zakatiura