Top UX sources to follow on Medium
This isn’t THE list, but it’s who I (and the PFR team) listen to on Medium, and might be a good place to start if you want to get more out of this platform.
By Jason Stockwell, Insights Marketing Manager at People for Research
I was scrolling through Medium the other day when I thought: “none of these articles are of any interest to me”. I needed to re-vamp my feed and find something a little more relevant to my career and what I want to develop.
So, that encouraged the team to look around and find the top sources for UX and design content on Medium. We looked at a few things here, like frequency of posts (sources that post fairly often), recency (sources that have been active in the last 6–9 months), and quality (sources that are creating original content).
Publications
UX Planet is a great resource for everything related to user experience. The Medium page has everything including beginners getting started in UX, to careers and future jobs in user experience.
UX Collective is one of the most rounded UX resources online. With global collaborators and insights spanning industries and disciplines.
A combined design resource with some of the best minds on Medium. Tips on feedback and strategy right down to button design and colour. No stone of design is left unturned.
UX Power tools is the ultimate starter kit for UX design. Trends, tutorials and a good bunch of design humour make this unique resource a great go-to.
OK, this points to a specific article, because it’s an absolute staple of UX Medium: Table of Contents. The illustrations and explanations are perfect for any research project.
Like many industries, buzzwords in UX are there to summarise lengthy explanations. But this doesn’t make them any less confusing. UX in plain English gets straight to the point.
A great source of stories and insights from the design community, curated by the Adobe XD team. Focusses on the future of design, creativity, best practices and digital inclusion.
People
✍️ Erika Hall
Author of Just Enough Research. Co-founder of Mule Design Studio. Writes about UX strategy, planning and processes.
Experience designer at Origin and founder of the Black UX Collective. Writes about inclusive design, biases in research/UX, and using technology for good.
✍️ Tomer Sharon
Head of User Research & Metrics at Goldman Sachs, Author of Validating Product Ideas and It’s Our Research. Previously at Google and WeWork. Writes about measuring successes off the back of user research.
Qualitative user experience researcher. Editor of User Research Academy and frequent UX Collective contributor. Writes about resources, trends and solutions to common problems.
User Experience Lead at LinkedIn, previously Design Manager at Zendesk Sell. Writes about communication within teams, inclusive design and more.
Founder and CEO at EnjoyHQ — helping UX Teams centralise, organise and share all customer insights in one place. Writes about productivity and how to make UX projects successful.
✍️ Emma Boulton
Interim Research Director at Babylon Health, previously at Monotype and BBC. Co-founder of Mark Boulton Design and Five Simple Steps. Writes about user research foundations and is a leader at Team ReOps.
✍️ Nick Babich
Editor-in-chief of UX Planet. Writes about recent UX questions and trends, user experience tips and tactics, and experience design.
✍️ Mehek Kapoor
UX and Product Designer, currently designing at Netherlands-based NextPax. UX Collective’s regular contributor, writing about a huge diversity of design topics.
Designer at Work & Co, founder of UX Collective. Writes about personal development, top UX design tips and trends in the design industry.
Co-founder and co-CEO at Center Centre — UIE. One of the foremost think tanks in design and user experience. Writes about hiring in UX, user experience metrics and leadership in the industry.
Designer at InVision. Co-founder of Carbon Health. Writer at The Design Team and teacher at Sketch Together. Writes about personal development, recognising design and getting inspiration, and design links from around the internet.
✍️ Jesse Weaver
Director of Entrepreneurial Design at CMCI Studio. Writes about putting users first, technology and UX, and maintaining high standards in product development.
Senior Manager of Design Community Partnerships at InVision. Writes about remote user research, culture in workplaces and design ethics.
Pioneering creator of the Black Weblog Awards and creator of the award-winning podcast Revision Path. Creative Strategist at Glitch.
UX Design World curator. Shares a lot of fantastic UX stories and lists of user experience advice, as well as tips on how to design processes and omnichannel experiences.
Senior Design Researcher at Salesforce. Advocate for positive innovation and humanity in tech, starting with emotional self-care at the design stage.
✍️ Jeremiah Lam
Singapore-based UI / UX designer. Regularly contributing to UX Collective and editor Data Driven Investor. Focussing on UX design, product usability, fintech and programmatic marketing.
Director of Experience Design at TED. Writes about both giving and receiving design feedback, finding design apps, books, films and podcasts, and top level design strategy.
✍️ Chris Kiess
Healthcare User Experience Designer and editor of The Quintessence of Dust. Writes about finding inspiration, user experience healthcare and ethics in design.
✍️ Mei Zhang
UX influencer, currently working as User Experience Designer at Booking.com. Regularly writes for Prototypr and UX Planet.
Head of UX & Design at FiscalNote. Director of FN Labs. Professor of user-centred design at University of Maryland. Writes about brands designing well, taking control of your UX career and going beyond one method of user research.
So, there we go. Who do you listen to most on Medium? Do you have any suggestions to add to the list? Let us know.
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