The world of web design is a huge pool of professionals, communities, forums, and portals. It is a massive repository of different resources that span the width and breadth of this design discipline. It would take an encyclopedic edition to list all of them.
But we’ll sort them out in our continuing article series on web design intended to keep you informed and inspired. We will delve into the leading web design communities, prominent design news portals, and design inspiration sites. You may want to read the best web design forums to keep you on top of your game.
This time, we’ll present some of the best web design bloggers to follow and read. Whether you are a web designer, developer, UX/UI designer, graphic designer, project manager, freelancer, and any other related web design role, you’ll learn something and be inspired by these bloggers who are among the leading authorities in their field.
Best Web Design Bloggers to Follow and Read
Best Web Design Bloggers
This is not a comprehensive list but a short selection of standouts. There are many other blogs on web design but they are a collective effort of a team with in-house writers or guest contributors. We may feature those blogs in the future. What we have here are individuals who have made a name and career in blogging in the area of web design and development.
1. Paul Boag
Paul Boag writes at Boagworld, his website and blog which has been around for nearly two decades. He brings with him a rich experience in digital marketing and solid credentials in the web design industry, especially in the area of user experience. In his blog, you’ll get practical tips on UX design and development, UI design, and content strategy as well as career advice. Boag is an advocate of keeping designs simple so if you want to get a footing on website design steeped in simplicity but engaging, this is the guy to read on.
- Site Features: tutorials, tips, guides, courses, books
- Blog Topics: UX/UI design, digital strategy, digital marketing, working in digital, site conversion, design process
- Blog Audience: UX/UI developers, web designers, webmasters, digital marketers, content creators, digital project managers, design agencies/teams
2. David Walsh Blog
David Walsh is a senior full-stack engineer working at Meta and previously served at Mozilla for several years. He is a JavaScript expert and consultant and, through his more than decade-long blog targeted at full-stack developers and UX/UI designers, provides tips, tricks, and guides on JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5. He also offers career advice as a web developer and an insider look into the industry.
- Site Features: demos, tutorials, tips, guides
- Blog Topics: AJAX, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, PHP, SEO, WordPress, Node.js
- Blog Audience: web designers, WP developers, webmasters, programmers, coders, software engineers, content creators, SEO specialists
3. Swiss Miss
Swiss Miss is owned by Tina Roth Eisenberg who started it in 2005 as a personal visual archive for her work as a designer and founder of several design studios. She also founded and operates CreativeMornings, a global community of creatives. Eisenberg was raised in Switzerland and completed her design studies in Geneva and in Munich. She is now based in Brooklyn, New York and her blog has grown into a widely popular design journal with a million monthly visitors per month.
- Site Features: tutorials, tips, latest projects, user submissions of website and product designs, visitor Q&A
- Blog Topics: design aesthetics, artworks, books, design elements, inspirational quotes
- Blog Audience: web designers, graphic artists, content creators, product designers, geeks, creative professionals
4. Tom McFarlin
Anything about WordPress development, Tom McFarlin is the guy to go to via his blog. And he is one prolific writer, having come up with over 2,000 articles in his blog covering software development, particularly regarding JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and related technologies. Of course, people flock to his blog to get insights and perspectives on WordPress, from the simple to the highly technical. Currently, he is a Senior Software Developer at AwesomeMotive that helps small businesses grow traffic and revenue.
- Site Features: WordPress tutorials, tips, guides, reviews, in-depth articles; links to conference presentations, podcast guesting, and books he co-authored
- Blog Topics: software, development, engineering, and WordPress
- Blog Audience: web designers, WP developers, graphic artists, webmasters, project managers, programmers
5. Niccolo Miranda
Niccolo Miranda holds many titles – interactive designer, visual designer, creative developer, digital art director, and multidisciplinary freelancer. And all these roles come together to give you a one-of-a-kind blog that utilizes animations and scrolling interactions for an immersive, unforgettable user experience. Without having read anything yet in his blog, you’ll already be inspired by the design of his award-winning website which you have to see to believe. He is presently based in Amsterdam.
- Site Features: works and projects, presentations and guides on website design
- Blog Topics: creative coding, branding, visual strategy, digital experience design
- Blog Audience: web designers, web developers, graphic designers, design agencies, design teams, UX/UI designers
6. Wilian Iralzabal
Wilian Iralzabal is a Cuban product designer residing in San Francisco, California. His passion and mission revolve around user experience and he chronicles the tools and techniques when it comes to UX design through YouTube explainer videos that he posts in his blog. The blog itself is minimalist in design with the videos arranged in a grid style and the topics are wide-ranging including design processes, creating content, and getting motivated.
- Site Features: video explainer/tutorials, inspiration, design tips
- Blog Topics: design tools, creative process, design motivation, working with clients, self-improvement, career development
- Blog Audience: web designers, UX/UI designers, graphic designers, design teams and studios, project managers
7. Flavio Copes
Flavio Copes is a software engineer who started his Internet software company some 15 years ago. He writes comprehensive tutorials for developers and organizes an annual developer boot camp. So far, he has written 15 programming books including those on JavaScript, PHP, Node.js, Python, and React, to name some. He also offers a course on JavaScript as well as for those venturing to become solo entrepreneurs. His blog currently contains over 1,600 posts.
- Site Features: tutorials, tips, guides, links to courses and books
- Blog Topics: JavaScript, CSS, React, dev tools, blogging, business, career
- Blog Audience: web and software developers, web designers, programmers, webmasters, computer science students, bloggers, content creators
8. RWieruch
Robin Wieruch is a German web developer and software engineer who has made it his lifelong work to teach and learn JavaScript. He is well equipped to do that having finished a Master’s Degree in computer science and worked at a Berlin company developing large-scale JS applications. He wrote regularly about web development and later crafted courses on these which he offers online.
- Site Features: tutorials, tips, guides, courses
- Blog Topics: JavaScript, GraphQL, Node.js, React.js, Firebase, web development trends
- Blog Audience: web and software developers, web designers, coders, programmers, computer science students
9. Cory Rylan
Cory Rylan is a software developer, Google developer expert, and regular speaker at workshops and conferences since 2012. He is an authority when it comes to building web components and design systems. As such, you’ll find bountiful information and articles in his blog to help you become a better web developer and designer on a technical level. There are insights on using and creating themes, forms, interfaces, and other web elements essential to designing functional and responsive websites.
- Site Features: articles, tutorials, tips, videos, training resources
- Blog Topics: front-end development, web components, JavaScript, CSS, style guides, design systems
- Blog Audience: web designers, web and software developers, coders, webmasters, digital project managers
10. Valentino Gagliardi
Valentino Gagliardi is an Italian web developer who teaches JavaScript. He offers books, courses, and on-site workshops on JS and web development. His blog provides tips for web designers and developers needing to get a firm foundation in coding language and web design tools. He is the author of The Little JavaScript Book which contains all you need to know about the “language of the web.”
- Site Features: articles, tips, tutorials, training courses, books
- Blog Topics: websites, web applications, JavaScript, Django, Python, React, web development, front-end testing
- Blog Audience: web designers, web developers, coders, webmasters, JavaScript enthusiasts
11. Samantha Ming
Samantha Ming is a Canadian web developer and podcaster. She presently works at GitLab as a frontend engineer. Through her website and blog, she shares her knowledge and experiences in programming and web development. She also offers tips on how to design and build websites using the tools of the trade like JavaScript, CSS, and Flexbox, to name some. Ming also has courses covering web basics and coding.
- Site Features: tips, tutorials, training courses
- Blog Topics: web design, web development, programming, JS, HTML, CSS, Flexbox
- Blog Audience: web designers, web developers, programmers, webmasters
Blogging is a great way to share your ideas and expertise. The above individuals have carved out their names by blogging, podcasting, teaching, offering courses, speaking at conferences, and writing books. The recognition may not have come overnight, but they are good at what they do and steady in their journey, resulting in where they are now – authorities in their fields of discipline and imparting knowledge to others. They are worth emulating and following if you dream of becoming like them one day.
