Minds behind it: <\/strong>Fabricio Texeira, Design Director for Work & Co; Caio Braga, Product Design Lead at 99designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Thoughtful & Informative essays<\/a> on all aspects of UX, case studies, design insight<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>UX pros and fans of the genre, information architects, visual designers<\/p>\n\n\n\n With engaging writing and a well-curated daily selection of articles, UX Collective is definitely a place to cruise with your morning coffee. You\u2019ll find light articles like \u201cChanging diapers and the UX revelation that came with it\u201d<\/a> but also meatier content like \u201cHuman error: An important ingredient in great designs.\u201d<\/a> This is also a resource for visual designers who want to mesh with the technical side to create truly great user experiences. Minds behind it: <\/strong>The Google accessibility team<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>All you need to know to make your site accessible on an ongoing basis<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Usability and accessibility champions, developers<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weirdly, a lot of UX blogs don\u2019t have regular articles about accessibility, but it\u2019s at the forefront of what\u2019s important in website creation today. If you\u2019re not considering accessibility with your site or app, it\u2019s time to get on this train. Google\u2019s famous flair for comprehensiveness includes serving on standards committees and keeping developers up to date on what they need to know, use and do to ensure their sites are accessible. And it\u2019s all brought to bear in this blog. This is a must-follow for everyone in this space. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Recruiters for top digital agencies and major corporations<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>UX career advice from real recruiters, job listings<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Interaction, visual and experience designers; user researchers and strategists<\/p>\n\n\n\n This UX blog is a must if you\u2019re looking for a job or just want to remain knowledgeable about the current marketplace. The site also offers plenty of free, interesting articles about building a portfolio, career progression, how to look for UX jobs and more. To connect with recruiters, you must join UXswitch through LinkedIn\u2014it\u2019s free and the listings area is quite active. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Specialists in human-computer interaction <\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>A wide variety of best practices and tips on the fine details of good UX design<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Practitioners and students of the genre<\/p>\n\n\n\n How should you design a Cancel button<\/a>? Why is it so hard to ask for birthdate information in a form<\/a>? How should you request input for form fields<\/a>? The topics here may not sound sexy, but they are absolutely the stuff of good (and bad) user experiences. These posts generate opinions and debate, of course, but that can contribute to overall domain knowledge as well. Minds behind it: <\/strong>In-the-trenches practitioners, both corporate and freelance, from all over the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Tips, a bit of theory, case studies in good UX, career advice<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Those in the trenches (novice to intermediate) making websites <\/p>\n\n\n\n UX Planet is a publication on Medium, so the site is nice and clean. You\u2019ll find articles on theory and practice in the areas of user research, front- and back-end dev, visual design and more, all with a focus on their practical application in creating good user experience. Interesting articles cover the current state of user research<\/a>, making a career change into UX<\/a> and the psychology principles UX professionals should know<\/a>. There are also loads of best practices guides for nearly every aspect of site creation. UX Planet also includes articles in Spanish and Arabic. Minds behind it: <\/strong>UX and content strategists<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Beginner\u2019s guides, tips, practical advice <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Those getting started in UX, those obsessed with all things content<\/p>\n\n\n\n A well-designed site with clear arrangement of topics, UX Booth styles itself as a place for \u201cbeginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers.\u201d As such, it has a handy \u201cComplete Beginner\u2019s Guide\u201d for most of its topic areas, including analytics, IA, research, interaction design and content strategy. It also offers practical tips as well as advice on building your career in a UX field. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Information architects, digital strategy managers, UX leads<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Articles on user psychology, organizational psychology, the role of design and more<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>User experience champions, managers, creative and tech leads <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before UX had moved into the wider consciousness, there was Boxes and Arrows and its formidable stable of information architecture and UX design pros. Around since 2001, Boxes and Arrows has always understood that good design and development are about good process on the back end and respect for the user on the front end. Nerd out on topics like \u201cCard Sorting: A Definitive Guide,\u201d<\/a> \u201cThe Cult of User Personae\u201d<\/a> and \u201cSomewhere Between Vulnerability and Design Thinking.\u201d<\/a> Minds behind it: <\/strong>Designers, coders, content strategists, engineers, UX professionals <\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Nitty-gritty articles on IA, usability, AI coding<\/a> and design, plus big-think pieces on process and the effects of tech on business and our species<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Creators of interactions, experiences, processes<\/p>\n\n\n\n A UX blog that is not afraid to take on hard topics, A List Apart started as a mailing list<\/em> in 1997. Its contributors were early champions of accessibility and web standards; their expertise in these areas continues to this day. It also concerns itself with how the current web landscape is affecting us as humans and as societies<\/a>\u2014and how design and business models can change (or not change) that. As with Boxes and Arrows, the archives make for interesting reading because you can track the development of the web and its design over time. Minds behind it: <\/strong>High-level UX professionals and academics<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Think pieces, book reviews, practical advice and tutorials<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Digital product developers in corporate\/enterprise environments<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog features thoughtful writing on the actual human interaction<\/em> aspects of web dev and design. Sharp perspectives on communication, development\/design process and how we humans actually use websites (in everyday life, to do seemingly mundane things) will add some serious smarts to your UX toolbox. For example, articles have covered how to design for the fact that people don\u2019t really read instructions<\/a> and how the life-insurance industry needs to radically shift its thinking about customer engagement.<\/a> Minds behind it: <\/strong>The designers and engineers at UXPin<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Excellent news-you-can-use blog, free publications, UI element kits<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommmended for: <\/strong>UX professionals\u2014practicing and aspiring\u2014who want seriously applicable knowledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n UXPin is an end-to-end product design collaboration platform, but it also serves up relevant blog posts<\/a> on UX topics and<\/em> has an incredible library of resources<\/a>, all free for the downloading! The blog covers prototyping, accessibility, process, design systems and more. The tagline for the site\u2019s freebies library is \u201cUX Design Knowledge. Shared.\u201d And boy, does it deliver on that, with a boatload of UI elements and publications. Titles include \u201cThe Building Blocks of Visual Hierarchy,\u201d \u201cContent Wireframing for Responsive Design,\u201d \u201cDeveloping UI Mockups Developers Won\u2019t Hate\u201d and so many more. Make some time because you\u2019re going to want a bunch of them. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Behavioral scientist Susan Weinschenk, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Serious information on behavioral science<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>User research nerds, designers, managers and team leaders in customer journey mapping<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between podcasts and written posts, The Team W blog serves up research-backed information that, simply put, will make UX professionals better at what they do. With a PhD in psychology, Susan Weinschenk is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and a consultant for companies from startup to Fortune 1000. She has authored many books, including How to Get People to Do Stuff <\/em>and 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People.<\/em> Podcast topics have included Designing Usable Chatbots<\/a> and A Rant About User Research<\/a>. It\u2019s good, smart stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minds behind it: <\/strong>To name a few, Leonardo Losoviz (creator of PoP) and brilliant designer Veerle Pieters<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Tips and tricks<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Developers and designers who love the latest and greatest<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tutorials, CMS walk-throughs and tips galore are Smashing\u2019s highlights. This is the place if you\u2019re looking to quickly add to your bag of coding tricks\u2014say, learn to align things in CSS<\/a>\u2014or even do something a little more complicated, like create a VR game<\/a>. Plus, Smashing is a great resource for free design tutorials in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, high-quality textures and beautifully designed calendars, with new ones released each month. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Product and visual designers, managers<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Great tips, interviews and smart takes on big topics from those in the know<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>UX designers on all sides, team leaders<\/p>\n\n\n\n This site, from the makers of InVision (a digital product design platform) is chock-full of quality tips, inspiration and news from the worlds of UX and digital product design. You\u2019ll find articles like \u201cWhat\u2019s a Progressive Web App and Why Should Designers Care?\u201d<\/a> and \u201cBuilding Your Design Operations Team.\u201d<\/a> Rounding out the offerings are loads of helpful resources and insightful interviews, in both podcast and video form, with leaders in the field. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Jason Mifsud, a usability\/UX expert with deep academic roots<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Articles bridging theory and practice <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>User research leads, information architects, UX professionals<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog was started way back in 2011, when usability was still not on as many radars as it needed to be. You\u2019ll get actionable tips on things like how to write a good usability testing script<\/a> and guerrilla testing<\/a>. Additionally, you\u2019ll find essential knowledge on the difference between UX and usability, decontextualized testing and other fundamentals of good process in experience and interaction design. Minds behind it: <\/strong>Future media group, publishers of Web Designer<\/em>, Computer Arts<\/em>, 3D Arts<\/em> and other magazines<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>Product reviews, design inspiration, design and tech tutorials<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Designers, digital artists and UX professionals who lean toward the visual <\/p>\n\n\n\n CreativeBloq bubbles with great tips, a bit of fun, buying guides and coverage of the latest and greatest tools. UX professionals (especially those who focus on visual design) will find plenty to keep them reading, including articles on trends, theory, practice and resources. It also covers some essential ground, like how to create good user flows<\/a>, and provides much-needed doses of funny (\u201c5 Design Student Stereotypes to Avoid\u201d<\/a>). Minds behind it: <\/strong>UX and visual designers as well as managers<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>\u201cDaily curated design knowledge\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Designers who don\u2019t necessarily code<\/p>\n\n\n\n This site has both a blog and newsfeed component. Recent articles on the blog include \u201cWhen Your Design System Fails,\u201d<\/a> \u201cThe Power of \u2018I Don\u2019t Know\u2019 in Product Design,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cDesigning Adobe\u2019s Brand Illustration Style,\u201d<\/a> all by expert practitioners. The newsfeed pulls in stories from UX Collective, Hackernoon, Nielsen Norman Group and other reliable sources (even GitHub). You\u2019ll find plenty of variety, with topics running the gamut from how to handle privacy through design to variable fonts. The minds behind it: <\/strong>Coders, web developers, front-end designers<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you\u2019ll find: <\/strong>CSS and WordPress tutorials, roundups and listicles<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended for: <\/strong>Developers and designers<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"UX-Collective_Top-UX-Blogs\"](\"https:\/\/qualaroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/UX-Collective_Top-UX-Blogs.png\")
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