Design & UX blogs

The company blog of 37signals, makers of Basecamp, on bootstrapped business, product design, and their books.

Top post: Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013

Bret Victor, an interface designer and researcher, writes essays and builds interactive explorations on programming, design, and learning.

Top post: What can a technologist do about climate change?

Jason Kottke runs a long-running link blog curating interesting items on culture, science, design, technology, and the web.

Top post: If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

A long-running web publication where designers and developers write about CSS, responsive design, usability, and web standards.

Top post: Responsive Web Design

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and Overcast, writes about Apple, app stores, laptops, and software development.

Top post: The best laptop ever made

Figma's engineering and product blog on its browser-based design tool, covering WebAssembly, multiplayer sync, plugins, and Rust.

Top post: WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x (2017)

Aggregated blogs by GNOME developers and designers on desktop design, software, profiling, and the project's direction.

Top post: Restyling apps at scale

A Medium publication that collects articles by many designers on user interface design, typography, usability, and design history.

Top post: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

Jason Cohen writes about startups, bootstrapping and business strategy, and founded WP Engine; the blog also explains color vision.

Top post: Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

Nicky Case makes interactive explainers and games on topics like game theory, trust, voting, and learning.

Top post: Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

Matthew Inman's webcomic site, with long illustrated comics on technology, animals, work, and everyday life.

Top post: Design hell

Adobe's company blogs, with posts on Flash, open source fonts, file formats like PSD, web standards, and creative tools.

Top post: Source Code Pro (monospaced Source Sans), released open source by Adobe

Bartosz Ciechanowski writes long interactive explainers on how things work, such as watches, GPS, engines, and cameras.

Top post: Mechanical Watch

The Pudding publishes visual, data-driven essays on culture, music, and society using interactive graphics.

Top post: The Human Terrain – 3D map of population

Eric Meyer is a CSS expert who writes about web standards, accessibility and design, along with personal essays about his family.

Top post: “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Nikita Prokopov, a Clojure developer and creator of the Fira Code font, writes about software quality, UI design, and web development.

Top post: Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

Neal Agarwal makes playful interactive web projects, such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, Size of Space, and The Deep Sea.

Top post: Perfect Circle

David McCandless's Information is Beautiful publishes data visualizations and infographics on topics such as data breaches, supplements, and musicians' earnings.

Top post: Snake-oil supplements?

Online art and design magazine covering unusual art, craft, photography, and design projects from around the world.

Top post: The 77-Year-Old Artist Who ‘Paints’ Japanese Landscapes with Excel

Codrops is a front-end site with tutorials, demos, and references on CSS, JavaScript, and web animation.

Top post: Amazing Web Design and Development Resource

Jakob Nielsen, usability researcher, writes Alertbox essays on web design, user testing, and interface usability.

Top post: Why you only need 5 users for usability testing

Randall Munroe, creator of the xkcd webcomic, posts side projects, surveys, and essays that don't fit in the comic.

Top post: Results of XKCD Color Survey

Ink & Switch is an independent research lab exploring local-first software, collaboration tools, and tools for thought.

Top post: Cambria: Translate your data with lenses (2020)

Josh W. Comeau, a front-end developer and educator, writes interactive tutorials on CSS, React and web accessibility.

Top post: An interactive guide to Flexbox

Dustin Curtis, a designer and founder of the Svbtle blogging network, writes about design, Apple, and tech culture.

Top post: Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts

HubSpot's company blog, covering marketing, sales, landing pages, A/B testing, and business writing.

Top post: 8 Brilliant Landing Page Examples You Need to See

Luke Wroblewski writes on web and mobile interface design, especially form design, with talks, articles and books.

Top post: Ff

Blog of the iA design studio, which makes the iA Writer and iA Presenter apps, writing on typography, writing tools, and app business.

Top post: IA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps

Web design and development site with tutorials, tool roundups, and articles on CSS, usability, JavaScript, and freelancing.

Top post: Usability Tips Based on Research Studies

Bruce Tognazzini, an early Apple HCI engineer, writes about interaction design and usability.

Top post: Apple R&D (1989): Mousing is faster than keyboarding, but users don't believe it

Jeremy Keith is a web developer who has blogged for over 20 years about web standards, HTML, and the open web.

Top post: HTML Web Components

Nathan Barry is a designer and entrepreneur who writes about selling books, bootstrapping software, and building a creator business.

Top post: The ladders of wealth creation: a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth

Intercom's company blog covers product design, software engineering practice, startup growth and churn, and the future of apps.

Top post: Your product is already obsolete

Google's official Chrome blog announces browser releases, features, platform support changes, and Chrome OS news.

Top post: Talking to your computer (with HTML5)

Arc90's lab blog showcased small web and usability experiments, most famously the Readability reader tool, plus password masking ideas.

Top post: Readability

18F, a US federal government digital services team, writes about building public software, team practices and design.

Top post: Join

An annual advent calendar of web design and development articles by various authors, with one new piece each day in December.

Top post: Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website

Ken Rockwell is a photographer who writes opinionated camera reviews and photography advice on a plain, ad-free personal site.

Top post: Apple Lightning Adapter Audio Quality (2017)

Paul Stamatiou, a designer and startup founder, writes about technology, design, photography, and gadgets.

Top post: Crash Course: Design for Startups

Jim Nielsen, a web developer, writes about HTML, URL design, web components, and the craft of building websites.

Top post: Inspecting Web Views in macOS

Matt Gemmell, a Scottish former Mac and iOS developer turned novelist, writes about writing, API design, and app development.

Top post: What have you tried? (2008)

Evil Martians, a product engineering consultancy, writes about Ruby on Rails, CSS, Docker, PostgreSQL and front-end practice.

Top post: Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)

Prototypr is a Medium publication where designers and developers write about UI design, product design, and interface history.

Top post: Rediscovering Apple's Human Interface Guidelines from 1987

Maggie Appleton, a designer and researcher, writes about digital gardens, generative AI, and the web, with finely made visual essays.

Top post: A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden

Jeffrey Zeldman, a web design pioneer, writes about web standards, browser diversity, HTML5 and the state of web design.

Top post: Browser diversity starts with us

Eric Lawrence, a longtime browser engineer, writes about web security, Chrome, HTTPS, and Windows internals.

Top post: The Line of Death

Matt Webb writes about software, product design, AI, and the web, with experiments in voice interfaces and personal computing.

Top post: Every webpage deserves to be a place

UX Planet is a Medium publication collecting articles on user experience design, interface principles, and design trends from multiple authors.

Top post: 2019 UI and UX Design Trends

Raph Levien, a software engineer working on Rust GUI toolkits and graphics, writes about UI architecture, color spaces, and curves.

Top post: Xi-Editor Retrospective

Think Vitamin was a resource for web designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, covering web app business, performance, and interface design.

Top post: Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users

Smashing Magazine's coding section publishes tutorials on JavaScript, CSS, and front-end practice from many contributing authors.

Top post: Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle

Design & UX is a Medium publication with short pieces on interface details, icons, buttons, and responsive design.

Top post: Transitional Interfaces

Dustin Curtis, a designer and entrepreneur, writes about design, user experience, and personal topics, including his well-known letter to American Airlines.

Top post: You should follow me on Twitter

Lea Verou, a CSS specification expert and researcher, writes about CSS, color, web components, and web design.

Top post: LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how?

Viget is a digital agency with offices in the US that writes about web development, Ruby, Git, front-end practice and design research.

Top post: Php cms developer

Adobe's corporate blog posts product news on Photoshop, Camera Raw, generative AI with Firefly, terms of use, and partnerships.

Top post: A clarification on Adobe Terms of Use

Microsoft's official Windows team blog, with announcements about Windows 8, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer and the Windows logo.

Top post: Redesigning the Windows Logo

Brand New, run by UnderConsideration, covers corporate logo and identity redesigns with commentary and reader discussion.

Top post: New Logo for Yahoo Designed In-House: 30 Days for This?

Craig Mod is a writer, designer and photographer who covers software design, publishing and long walks in Japan.

Top post: Fast Software, the Best Software

Khoi Vinh, a designer formerly of The New York Times, writes about typography, grids, interface design and redesigns.

Top post: Grids are good