UX Sites and Blogs
What are some of the best and most reliable online sources about user experience, usability, and interaction design? The truth is: in the last couple years a lot of different UX blogs and UX sites came up – making it hard to keep track of all of it and filter out what’s really relevant to follow regularly.
Most of the blogs on this list get updated at least once a week, which will give you enough material to read in a regular basis. We’d also recommend that you find some time to read through their archive, since there is a huge amount of valuable material there.
See also: UX checklists, UX podcasts and professionals to follow.
Pick some sites & blogs to follow:
A List Apart
Design, development, and meaning of web content, with focus on web standards and best practices.
Inspire UX
Catriona Cornett focuses on the impact that User Experience has on people, business, and the world.
Johnny Holland
An open collective talking, sharing and finding answers about all aspects of interaction design.
Luke W
Luke Wroblewski’s writings about digital product design and strategy.
Pleasure & Pain
Independent user experience consultant Whitney Hess writes about empathy and user experience.
Smashing Magazine
Ideas, practical tips, useful guidelines, recommended best practices and case studies on UX.
Usability Post
Dmitry Fadeyev is a developer, designer and blogger that writes about UX and Usability.
UX Booth
A publication by and for the UX community and anyone interested in making the web a better place to be.
UX Magazine
A central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience.
UX Movement
A progressive user experience blog that’s devoted to improving the way designers create user interfaces.
UX Mastery
Online resource for aspiring user experience designers, by Luke Chambers and Matthew Magain.
If you are into reading about UX on Facebook, there is also this UX Design list that you can follow to get updates from these blogs (and a few others) right on your newsfeed. Hint: after you have followed the list, you can add it to the left hand side menu on Facebook by going to this page, clicking on the small pencil next to the list and adding it to your favorites.
