What are the top Newsletters web designers must follow?

Newsletters are a great source for being updated with current trends in web design. Here’s a list of the top picked ones.

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6 min readFeb 6, 2018

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No matter what field of work you are in, subscribing to email newsletters opens you up to a whole new world of abundant information. A newsletter provides a lot of benefits. Be it getting educated, staying updated with new trends, learning about new products and technology before anyone else, or even being the first ones to know about all of the awesome deals that could save you some major bucks on all your desired products and tools.

For a web designer to know all the latest UX and UI trends and methods is of paramount significance. In the web design industry which is pretty fast-paced, there is constant change and evolution of design trends. Email newsletters cover up all of the latest news, articles, trends, products, and design picked by experts. Keeping you inspired and motivated along with providing you with an ocean of information.

Reading helps an individual grow and explore their inner potential. I can’t emphasise enough that along with practice and implementation, the more you read the better designer you will become.

So let’s quickly dive in to the list of newsletters that you should be following as a web designer or an aspiring one.

1. UX Newsletter

Subscribing to the UX newsletter gives you the top 10 links of the week related to User Experience, Interaction Design, Product Design and Usability.

Curated by UX designers Fabricio Tiexeira and Ciao Braga, it highlights the best ideas including apps, useful tools and resources.

2. Creative Bloq

The internet is overflowing with catchy newsletters begging for your attention. How does creative bloq stand out? Intensive Research! Their articles crisply resourceful and informative.

Every wednesday, Creative Bloq curates the best articles of the week with additional offers and info. The newsletter is condensed and convenient and if you are a truly passionate designer, this newsletter is perfect for you.

3. Web design Weekly

The content of Web design Weekly includes podcasts, research links, tools, jobs, as well as inspiration and tips from industry leaders. You get varying content every week and it’s a great place to get updated about recent developments in web designing.

Jake Bresnehan is the face behind Web design weekly. His passion to give to the community can been seen with how the content is so diverse and extremely informative.

4. Sitepoint Versioning

Sitepoint is quite popular among web developers. They offer the best courses and books on web development with frequent exciting offers.

Versioning is their daily email newsletter, short and sweet, filled with links to the most important and interesting stuff found on the web. It’s mainly focused on the web dev world, but they mix things up with links to some very interesting material.

5. Side bar

This amazing newsletter by Sacha Greif is a must for any designer out there. Sidebar gives you five best design links everyday about UI design, typography, CSS, user research, and all other facets of design. To give you a taste of the kind of content you can expect, recent posts include Designing a product with Mental Health issues in Mind, Guilty Pleasures for Designers, and a Twitter Redesign Concept.

6. Responsive Design Weekly

Nowadays building responsive websites is highly crucial as people use a number of devices with varying resolution. Instead of spending hours doing research about responsive web design. This newsletter brings you the most informative articles and blogs to keep you up to date with responsive design trends.

Responsive Design Weekly is curated by Justin Avery. Their interview series is an excellent place to learn a lot from.

7. The Smashing email Newsletter

The team at smashing magazine is dedicated to write quality content and they send out just two Newsletters a month with useful tips, tricks and resources.

Content marketing tips, wordpress plugins, Javascript debugging, Comprehensive guides to product design, UX research. You can find just about every useful content that has some great tips from experts to give you a push to gain that extra knowledge in the UX design or development field.

8. Designmodo

Designmodo not only has a really cool newsletter but they also offer amazing products like UI kits and static website builders for designers and lets you keep an eye on those with their newsletter.

Another great thing about designmodo, Anyone with a blog, website or social media accounts can join their Affiliate Program and earn a 25% commission on purchases made from Designmodo.

9. Web designer depot

This newsletter is usually short but crisp. Wonderful articles on Marketing, UX design, gamification business and to top it all off, you can checkout comic of the week for some lighthearted content.

At times you receive a lot of unique content and writing from this newsletter that you generally wouldn’t find elsewhere. For example I read one about websites that use absolutely no Javascript for their web development and I was pretty surprised by the list.

10. Hey designer

Here you can find some interesting weekly issues. One from last week was Confessions of a UX designer.

Sign up to their newsletter and get the most popular stories of the week into your mailbox every Sunday.

11. All the small things

No not the song by Blink 182! All the small things is a newsletter that brings you a roundup of the most relevant articles on digital, design, strategy and innovation.

Curated and written by Tijs Vrolix, Belgium based freelance design strategist. It is the perfect source for web professionals who are looking for small updates with big ideas. This is the newsletter that even design experts are subscribing to. I suggest you do it too.

12. UX booth

If you’re looking for a publication by and for the user experience community this is a newsletter you must follow.

Here are some extra goodies that the subscribers receive.

15% off any Rosenfeld Media purchase

25% off any printed Smashing Book

15% off any UXPin plan

3 free months of InVisionApp’s Starter Plan

Conclusion

The driving force of the curators of these newsletters is to put all of their years of experience into one place to provide genuine and helpful content for design professionals. They want their readers to reduce their time spent on research and get them all set to reign in the design world.

Subscribing to these newsletters is a must if you still haven’t.

If you have subscribed to newsletters that aren’t listed here, please do mention them in the comments below and tell us your favorite ones.

If you like this blog, share it with your designer friends and find out if they have subscribed to these kick ass newsletters yet.

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