30 Web Design Blogs With Consistently Good Content
There’s a growing number of design blogs scattered around the web, each focusing on various aspects of design. This collection of 30 design blogs all have a primary focus on Web Design, and each one consistently pumps out great content, whether it’s in the form of inspiration, discussion, theory or tutorials. If you’re looking for some scrumtious goodies to feed your creative inner geek, look no further than this feast!
UX Booth
UX Booth is a blog focusing on user experience, usability and interaction design. Founded by Andrew Maier, Matthew Kammerer and David Leggett.
Web Design Ledger
Web Design Ledger is the online publication of Henry Jones, and is home to a whole range of web design content from various authors.
Think Vitamin
Think Vitamin is the blog of design agency Carsonified. Their posts cover a range of important subjects with plenty of theory, and include some popular speeches from the popular FOWD and FOWA conferences.
Six Revisions
Six Revisions is a veteran design blog managed by Jacob Gube. Along with a large collection of authors Jacob posts various inspirational design topics, as well as plenty of design tutorials.
Web Designer Depot
Since it exploded onto the scene in 2008, Web Designer Depot has continued to grow into a monster of a blog, with frequent design posts being published from various authors.
Web Designer Wall
Web Designer Wall is a wall of design ideas, trends and tutorials created by talented designer Nick La. Topics include a range of trend roundups, WordPress tutorials and handy tips and tricks.
Soh Tanaka
Soh Tanaka is a passionate web designer and developer who posts a range of great topics on his personal blog. A popular destination foramazing jQuery visual effect tutorials.
Nettuts
Nettuts is the web development and design branch of the popular TutsPlus network and is home to some detailed and technical tutorials for both front and back-end developers.
Build Internet
Maintained by brothers Zach and Sam Dunn, Build Internet is centered around web design and web development with plenty of great articles and tutorials.
Boagworld
Boagworld is a design blog and podcast hosted by Paul Boag, a popular figure in the web design industry.
Usability Post
Usability Post provides tips and insights into good design practices, founded by Dmitry Fadeyev it documents useful tips on how to design with usability in mind.
MarcoFolio
Marco Kuiper is the guy behind Marcofolio, a blog passionately covering web design inspiration, tutorials and tips.
CSS-Tricks
CSS-Tricks is the home of Chris Coyier, and is a treasure chest of CSS related tips, tricks and tutorials. Don’t forget to check out the awesome screencast tutorial series.
Inspect Element
Inspect Element is a web design and development blog by Tom Kenny that hosts a range of inspirational posts, tutorials and general design topics.
Woork Up
Woork Up was founded by Antonio Lupetti and is home to a large collection of useful CSS, jQuery, WordPress and Design content.
Noupe
Recently acquired by Smashing Magazine, Noupe is home to all kinds of design related roundups, including CSS, PHP, WordPress, AJAX and Javascript.
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is the a monster design blog covering all kinds of design related content. Web Design posts in particular are often packed full of tips, theory and inspiration.
Vandelay Design Blog
Steven Snell’s Vandely Design Blog is home to extensive trend roundups and design theme specific roundups, making it a great place to check out the latest movements in website design.
CSS Globe
As well as presenting CSS related content from Alen Grakalic, CSS Globe also hosts a popular Community News showcase that contains stacks of excellent design links.
Cats Who Code
Cats Who Code is a blog dedicated to web development, with a mix of tips for various programming languages. Founded and maintained by Jean-Baptiste Jung.
WP Recipes
Another amazing blog from Jean-Baptiste Jung is WP Recipes, a site that provides daily recipes enabling you to cook up various solutions for WordPress.
A List Apart
Since its migration online in 1998 A List Apart still keeps the web industry moving forward with plenty of in-depth articles on the design, development and meaning of web content.
Speckyboy
The Speckyboy design magazine by Paul Andrew is constantly updated with design trend roundups showcasing various design styles and themes.
24 Ways
The 24 Ways advent calendar is what web geeks look forward to every year with articles and content from popular authors from the web industry.
Spyre Studios
Jon Phillips’ Spyre Studios blog is home to plenty of design inspiration, tutorials and articles covering the web design subject and the greater world of design.
1stwebdesigner
1stwebdesigner is a design blog dedicated to bloggers, freelancers, web developers and designers which a mix of articles covering various design related topics.
From The Couch
From The Couch is the web design video blog from Obox Design’s David, Marc and Nat Perel and contains a range of insightful videos.
instantShift
With categories covering Icons, Showcases, WordPress, CSS and Tutorial, instantShift is a popualr destination for web related content.
Lee Munroe
Freelance Designer Lee Munroe runs a popular web design blog based on his personal findings, and includes interesting conference summaries, trend showcases and WordPress topics.
Pro Blog Design
Pro Blog Design is a consistent source of web design posts, with topics covering coding, WordPress, resource roundups and tips & techniques.
Design Shack
Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, resources and tutorials by David Appleyard and Josh Johnson as both a design gallery and blog.
Line25
Not to forget good old Line25. Founded and maintained by my very self, Chris Spooner, Line25 hosts a range of web related tutorials, articles and articles for every designer.
Great list Chris! I check a few of these, but wasn’t aware of all of them. Thanks again!
Hey, what about our blog?
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Besides that, what a frigging excellent list. Congratulations!
Some new ones here for me! I am so loving 24 ways and Soh Tanaka’s blog :) Thanks Chris!
Great list. Thanks Chris!
Awesome list! I found some new blogs today. And of course I’m very happy to see my favorites included… (like boagworld and Smashing Magazine)
A couple there I hadn’t come across that were really good design blogs …. particularly Inspect Element .. thanks for these
Hello Chris, and thanks a lot for including two of my blogs in your list. I’m definitely in good company here ;)
Thank you Chris for listing me in~ I feel honored to be up there with the big fellas :-)
I totally agree with you on the list of good content websites. I already follow some of these websites. Once again thanks for the list
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Amazing list of designs!
Very useful. There’s some blogs i didn’t known. thx
Great web designs. I like how many of them utilize a number of colors and designs, while still maintaining a quasi-minimalist approach.
Impressive collection….thanks for compilation
keep posting
Great list. I check out Pro Blog Design now and then. Line25 is my personal favourite.
Good for me.
But iam new one for using blogger.i saw your templates.but i dont know about to upload these templates to my blog
Nice list – I’d like to nominate Andy Rutledge for inclusion on the next iteration of your list: he has great web design articles – http://andyrutledge.com/
super list. thanks for sharing.
it's very kind of you for making such a long list. to be honest, every blog recommended by you is of great value. I am a Chinese student, a poor English major, but I'm quite interested in web development techniques. Thank you again for providing so many valuable resources.