The Best Newsletters for Designers
Product design, visual craft, and the process behind the work, from practicing designers.
Design advice online skews toward inspiration boards and trend roundups. These newsletters go further, covering the actual process: how designers research problems, defend decisions in reviews, and build systems that hold up across a product.
Expect deep dives into interaction patterns, critiques of real interfaces, and perspectives from both in-house teams and independent studios.
If you care about craft as much as outcomes, this list is built for you.
Newsletters for Designers
The Looking Glass
Leadership notes from a former Facebook design VP.
It's Nice That
Championing creativity across art, design, and visual culture.
NN/g Newsletter
Evidence-based UX research from Nielsen Norman Group.
Dezeen
Architecture, interiors, and design from around the world.
Smashing Newsletter
Front-end design and development, twice a month.
UX Collective
The largest independent publication for UX and product design.
Sidebar
Five of the best design links, every day.
Dense Discovery
For the thoughtfully curious, at the intersection of design, tech, and culture.