Update: I created a standalone site at teamdesign.team based on the aggregated content on this post. This page will live on, but I recommend following along over there, or via the site’s RSS feed.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about writing and how beneficial it is (especially for designers) to connect and share with our broader communities of practice through storytelling. It can be scary to put content out into the world, even more so when you’re representing a team. Sharing our processes, experiments, failures, and aha moments though is the best way for all of us to learn. Blogging regularly as a team has the added benefit of creating a window into the culture of our organizations, providing a glimpse of what working there is like. I first experienced the value of writing externally as a team while helping run The UX Newsletter at Mailchimp. I learned from the feedback we received after each issue that many other UX teams were working through the same challenges.
Back in April, I wrote my first post for Design at Sprout Social. Since then, I’ve been encouraging my colleagues to contribute as well. To help inspire my teammates to share, I went looking for other design team blogs. I couldn’t find a comprehensive list anywhere, so I just started collecting the feeds I could find in a folder on Feedly. I thought other folks might find it useful as well, so I put together this evergreen post.
Design Team Blogs
The list below includes every active design team blog I could find at time of writing that met the following requirements:
- Only in-house design or UX team blogs – I included company blogs as long as there was a design or UX-specific category to follow.
- At least one post in the last year – I discovered many dormant team sites with great articles, but I’m only including active blogs in this list.
- Must have an RSS feed – It’s tough to follow a site that isn’t on a shared platform and doesn’t have a feed URL. I’d love to keep up with OpenTable Design and Google Design, but neither site has a feed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks to WP RSS Aggregator, the 20 most recent posts, and latest 3 posts for each design team update daily. Know of any that I missed? Did a dormant blog start posting again? Drop a comment here and I’ll update the list.
Currently including 41 design team blogs | Skip to: Athenahealth, Atlassian, Automattic, Babbel, Booking.com, Deliveroo, Doctolib, DoorDash, Dropbox, Duolingo, Emplifi, Faire, Hubspot, IBM, Indeed, Instacart, Intercom, Intuit, Kingfisher, Klaviyo, Lattice, Lyft, Medium, Meta, Microsoft, OYO, Pinterest, Plaid, Prudential, Salesforce, SAP, Shopify, Slack, Spotify, Sprout Social, Thumbtack, VMware, Wayfair, Wix, Yelp, Zendesk
20 Most Recent Posts
- What are “Romance languages”?
- 듀오링고 학습 효과를 증명하는 네 가지 연구 결과
- 5 interessant Fakten zum koreanischen Alphabet Hangul
- Practical ways I use AI in design
- Introducing the New SAP Design System Portal
- The Evolution of Woo: How the Woo design team reimagined a brand for 3 million merchants
- Design Dialogues with Alžběta Hejnová
- The Shape of Design to Come
- Our UX Student Program Graduates Share Their Journey
- My unexpected journey with journaling
- Empowering Doctolib’s Design Team to Master Public Speaking through the initiative, Design Toasties
- Intercom on Product: Designing for Clarity
- Sheetal Agarwal on the importance of advocating for our customers
- Designing State of the Word Tokyo: Heritage Meets Innovation
- Digging Deeper: Solving the Real UX Challenges in Enterprise Software
- Mentorship at Slack: Lessons from a Thriving Program
- Introducing our new font, Thumbtack Rise
- From Touchpoints to Trust: The Impact of Service Design on Customer Loyalty for Automotive Brands
- Opening a new Principal Product Designer Role at Medium
- This is getting real: Welcome to the AI revolution
Athenahealth Design
https://medium.com/athenahealth-design (RSS)
Designing Atlassian
https://medium.com/designing-atlassian (RSS)
Automattic Design
https://automattic.design (RSS)
Babbel Design
https://medium.com/babbeldesign (RSS)
Booking.com – UX Design
Deliveroo Design
https://medium.com/deliveroo-design (RSS)
Doctolib Design
https://medium.com/doctolib/tagged/design (RSS)
Design @ DoorDash
https://medium.com/design-doordash (RSS)
Dropbox Design
https://medium.com/dropbox-design (RSS)
Duolingo Design
https://blog.duolingo.com/tag/design (RSS)
Emplifi Design
https://medium.com/emplifi-design (RSS)
Faire Design
https://craft.faire.com/tagged/design (RSS)
Hubspot UX
https://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/ux (RSS)
IBM Design
https://medium.com/design-ibm (RSS)
Indeed Design
https://medium.com/indeed-design (RSS)
Instacart Design
https://medium.com/instacart-design (RSS)
Inside Intercom – Product & Design
https://www.intercom.com/blog/product-and-design/ (RSS)
Intuit Design Hub
https://design.intuit.com (RSS)
Kingfisher Design
https://medium.com/kingfisher-design (RSS)
Klaviyo Design
https://medium.com/klaviyo-design (RSS)
Lattice Design
https://design.lattice.com (RSS via Substack)
Lyft Design+
Medium.design
Design at Meta
https://medium.com/designatmeta (RSS)
Microsoft Design
https://medium.com/microsoft-design (RSS)
OYO Product Design
https://medium.com/oyo-product-design (RSS)
Pinterest Design
https://pinterest.design (RSS)
Plaid Design
https://medium.com/plaid-design (RSS)
Prudential Design
https://medium.com/prudential-design (RSS)
Salesforce Designer
https://medium.com/salesforce-ux (RSS)
SAP Design
https://medium.com/sap-design (RSS)
Shopify UX
Slack Design
Spotify.Design
Design at Sprout Social
https://medium.com/sprout-social-design (RSS)
Thumbtack Design
https://medium.com/thumbtack-design (RSS)
VMware Design
https://medium.com/vmwaredesign (RSS)
Wayfair Experience Design
https://medium.com/wayfair-design (RSS)
Wix UX
Yelp Design
https://medium.com/yelp-design (RSS)
Hello stumbled upon this and its amazing! I’m wondering if you know of any website that is similar to this but aggregates software engineering related topics?
Not specifically in-house teams, but Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/) is a great aggregated source of eng topics.