- Boagworld’s UX Newsletter
- Interaction Design Foundation Newsletter
- UX Notebook Newsletter
- UX Beginner Newsletter
- A List Apart Newsletter
- Product Psychology Newsletter
- UX Collective Newsletter
- UX Booth Newsletter
- UX Design Weekly Newsletter
- Inside Design Newsletter
- So Many UX Newsletters, So Little Time
Who has time to follow blogs like this one anymore? Gone are the days of religiously checking your RSS feeds to see which blogs have posted.
Today we mainly search for the answer to a specific question. But that doesn’t expose us to new tools, techniques, or best practices unless we actively look for them. As a result, it is easy to fall into a rut of doing things the same old way with the same old tools and eventually get left behind.
Good UX newsletters should address that gap. They should introduce you to topics that you might not search on yet are essential nonetheless. They should keep you current and inspire you to grow as a UX professional.
Regularly dropping into your inbox, a newsletter nudges you to prioritize learning and avoid your UX skills from atrophying.
So in this post, I want to share with you 10 newsletters to follow in UX from some of the best ux design blogs, starting, of course, with mine.
Boagworld’s UX Newsletter
If you don’t know me, I have been working in digital for 27 years and sharing advice on this blog for over 16 years. My fortnightly UX newsletter focuses on sharing the kind of advice that you would not necessarily search on but will make a big difference to your career and users.
My newsletter draws on my personal experiences in UX to inspire and encourage you in what is often a challenging field.
Interaction Design Foundation Newsletter
The interaction design foundation is one of the best sources of educational material for UX designers, period. Unsurprisingly their newsletter is equally good with short, snappy explanations of UX techniques. That makes it an excellent choice for those newer to the field of UX.
UX Notebook Newsletter
The UX Notebook newsletter is curated by Sarah Doody and delivered every other Tuesday. Sarah is hugely experienced in the field and provides some excellent advice, particularly around building your career in UX. In addition, she has a practical, common-sense approach that is much needed in our field.
UX Beginner Newsletter
As the name implies, UX beginners is an excellent newsletter for those transitioning into UX, written by Oz Chen. The newsletter contains a curated list of weekly UX news, updates, tools, and training for aspiring UX professionals.
A List Apart Newsletter
A List Apart has long been one of the best blogs for learning about the latest techniques in web design, including user experience design. In fact, it has been producing quality posts since 1998! Although it doesn’t have a dedicated newsletter, you can receive notifications about their latest posts via email, making it more than worth subscribing to.
Product Psychology Newsletter
Okay, so this one is not strictly a UX newsletter. Still, psychology, design, and behavioral science are critical components in creating an outstanding experience. So on that basis, this is an excellent addition to the list from Nir Eyal, the author of Hooked.
UX Collective Newsletter
The UX collective has been publishing great articles about design thinking for some time now on Medium. But did you know they also have excellent UX newsletters too? If you haven’t read the UX collective before, they have a somewhat eclectic mix covering everything from brand design to UI and UX.
UX Booth Newsletter
I love UX Booth because they address UX design in the broadest sense, covering everything from research and design to business strategy and content. If you want to broaden your expertise in UX, I highly recommend subscribing to their weekly UX newsletters that includes a notification about their latest post and a selection of previous posts from their archive.
UX Design Weekly Newsletter
UX design weekly takes a slightly different approach to UX newsletters by curating the best user experience design links every week. That makes it an excellent selection if you are looking for a broader view of the latest posts from across the industry.
Inside Design Newsletter
Inside Design is an educational resource from InVision and is a fantastic mixture of practical advice and insights into how design teams in world-class organizations operate. In addition, their email digest is loaded with digital product design insights and is definitely worth the space in your inbox.
So Many UX Newsletters, So Little Time
It is so hard to find time to keep up with the latest best practice in our industry, and there is just no way anybody can read even a tiny fraction of the advice being posted every week.
With this kind of information overload, I seek out a small number of trusted sources. These are people I respect and who approach the discipline with a similar mindset to me. It took me a while to find them, but now I have subscribed to their UX newsletters, I only have to spend a few minutes a week scanning their emails to feel I know the subjects I need to pay attention to.
My recommendation is to subscribe to a few of the above UX newsletters and give them a couple of months. Then, if you like what they have to say, great, but if not, unsubscribe and move on to the next.
