By Harris Roberts
03/10/2016
By Harris Roberts
UI/UX (user interface & user experience) is a fast moving space. The field moves quickly as usability, accessibility, interaction, and visual design continue to advance.
There are great books about UI/UX. As an office we recently started reading Don’t Make Me Think by Steven Krug. To stay up to date on the most recent design trends we follow a myriad of blogs. Below you will find our current favorite 25 UI/UX blogs.
BLOGS:
Some blogs are updated more frequently than others. We suggest following them on social or bookmarking to stay up to date. Need a refreshing new way to bookmark your favorite pages? Stick them in your back pocket.
NN Group shares some of their groundbreaking research in the user experience field.
Design Modo offers great insight on web design and UI kits.
The UX Collective offers curated content for UX, Visual & Product Design.
The Toptal Blog is a great resource for designers, developers, and entrepreneurs- access technology updates, tutorials, and management insights.
If you want a thought provoking blog about the practice, innovation, and discussion of design then this blog is for you. They also allow their readers to contribute their own articles.
Practical and personal recommendations are what you’ll find on Usability Geek. They aim to educate people about the possible commercial and legal implications of poor website usability.
Experts and professionals share their tips and insight on various UX design topics. The main topic areas highlighted are usability, UX, UI design, and e-commerce.
Awards blog is an inspiration hub for designers, developers, and agencies.
People were frustrated with the hassle of usability testing, thus User Testing was born. They aim to educate on UX, design and marketing, making your life easier one post at a time.
Created in 1998, A List Apart has a long history in terms of Internet years. They focus on the design and development of web content.
Started in 2002, Fool Proof was at the forefront of being mindful of the design of digital products and services. Their blog highlights ux design + practices, with a focus on mobile and smart devices.
This blog is often read by beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers. UX Booth is by and for the user experience community.
UX Movement is a user experience blog that shows how good and bad interface design practices affect user behavior.
Whether you’re a UX beginner or heavily experienced- UX Planet is the one-stop shop for everything UX.
InVision focuses on UX and offers posts on the life cycle of UX design.
Read up on case studies, what not to do, design tips and more on the Webflow Blog.
Adobe’s Ideas page is all about process, principles, and perspective.
The company vision is to have the world’s products & services people-centered, efficient & delightful. They take this approach in all of their blogs and try to give you as many tips as possible in UI.
Medium focuses on both UI and UX. A neat little detail about their blog is they tell you read time of each post.
Luke’s blog contains UX how-to videos, and general UX articles.
This blog provides insights and inspiration to both professionals working in all aspects of UX and students who are just beginning their journey.
UX Mastery is a community of artists sharing helpful resources, tips and content for both the beginner and experienced designer.
Thanks for taking the time to review these blogs. We follow multiple blogs to stay on top of design trends. Throughout the week we share our favorite media in Native Creative (our weekly design share). You can always stay in touch with our thoughts by signing up for updates from our blog. Just click the subscribe button in the sidebar.
Did we miss any blogs? Make sure to tell us in the comments!
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