Immerse me in web design

September 3, 2023 2:21 AM

Enrolled on a course that involves web design, a bit of coding, a bit of graphic design, a bit of UX and other related topics. It's beginner-level, but I am quite new to everything, so I am looking to supplement my learning by keeping up with web design-related news online. Open to websites, newsletters, podcasts, books, YouTube channels, Twitter accounts, subreddits and whatever else you can throw at me.

I found this previous question which gives me some ideas, and a few other questions from 2011, 2016 and 2017 among others, which also have some useful stuff but might be a bit outdated now.

As I mentioned above I am new to all of this, but am open to being thrown in at the deep end a bit.

At this stage, I am not super worried about career prospects. The course is just a general overview of everything web design-related, so for now my focus is on learning as much as I can and figuring out which aspects interest me most.

Things I've already stumbled across:

Freecodecamp
A YouTube channel called DeltaCX (about UX and other topics)
Sidebar.io

posted by iamsuper to Education (2 answers total)

Best answer: Anecdotally, most of the front-end people I followed on Twxtter have left or maintain a nominal presence; Mastodon and/or Bluesky seem to be where a lot of folks migrated. For Mastodon specifically, if you start on front-end.social and poke around the federated / explore tabs and other peoples' follow lists, you'll find quite a few interesting people that way.

Chris Coyier's Big Pile of Personal Developer/Designer Blogs In an OPML File post is exactly what it says it is. Chris also co-runs the Shop Talk podcast with Dave Rupert, though sadly I have been unable to find where they post transcripts.

ESIF collected articles from a Mastodon post asking for "the article that changed how you see web design / dev" and is absolutely worth a read.

HeyDesigner is another design link aggregator, though you'll often see the same stuff as Sidebar. Stéphanie Walters does an excellent design / UX roundup every week that often has links HeyDesigner and Sidebar don't, and comes in both RSS and email newsletter format.

The A11y Project and WebAIM are treasure troves of accessibility-focused content.

Rest of World covers tech news outside the US / Europe, and The Markup does really interesting data-driven journalism that often picks up on tech industry stories others might miss.

History of the Web is a really excellent series of posts about how the tech world evolved over time.
posted by fifthpocket at 3:41 PM on September 3, 2023 [3 favorites]

For UX, you want to follow NNG. They have a ton of free articles, a newsletter and a podcast.
posted by beyond_pink at 5:34 AM on September 4, 2023 [1 favorite]