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42 Design/Tech Magazines To Read

March 19th, 2007 in Developer's Toolbox | 124 Comments

Regardless of what it is that you’re selling, in order to remain competitive, you have to know exactly, what’s going on in the field you’re working in. More than that - actually, you have to know what happens next, which trends are coming up and which technologies will become big in the future. Achieving that is a solid foundation for successul development and right decisions at the right time.

What is right for business, is also right for online business. To catch up with the latest developments in design, development and web-related areas, it’s reasonable to read design/tech-related online-magazines. However, the choice is huge, and the quality of magazines isn’t always as good as you’d probably like it to be. Therefore decent references can be extremely useful, particularly if you don’t know where to start from.

This overview of over 40 established international design/tech-related sources is supposed to give you an overview of magazines you should read or at least scan from time to time. Some of the sources are well-known by (almost) everybody; hopefully not all of them.

Design, Web-Development

1. Digital Web Magazine

2. A List Apart

3. Sitepoint.com

4. Netdiver digital culture magazine + new media portal -> Feed your eyes

5. PingMag

6. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

7. Ajaxian

8. Design Meltdown

9. UX Magazine - The User Experience Magazine

10. Vitamin - a resource for web developers, designers and entrepreneurs

11. Web Developer’s Journal - Tips on Web Page Design, HTML, Graphics and Development Tools

12. Poynter Online - Design / Graphics

13. Treehouse

14. Hiveminds Magazine for web publishers and community builders

15. Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design

16. fadtastic: a multi-author web design trends journal

17. Web Design from Scratch - Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples

18. 9rules - Design Community: The best web content on design and a lot more.

19. Design-Feed Latest

20. graphicPUSH: News, articles and tutorials for print and web designers.

21. Devlounge

22. Design Observer: writings about design & culture

23. design.Principles

24. 24 ways

25. Iconfactory

26. Before & After magazine

27. The FWA: Favourite Website Awards - Web awards at the cutting edge

28. Speak Up › Design Dialog

Latest Trends in Web, Tech, Web 2.0

29. Read/Write Web

30. Wired News

31. Techcrunch

32. Web 2.0 Explorer

33. Modern Life - News & Views of the Modern Internet

34. Solution Watch

35. Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog

36. Home - .net magazine

Typography

37. Typographica. A Journal of Typography.

User Experience, Usability

38. UXmatters: Insights and inspirations for the user experience community

Published in Developer's Toolbox, March 19th, 2007
Tags: journal, magazine

1.

MeTheGeek (March 19th, 2007, 9:39 am)

Your lists rock!

I have just referenced the one about the job boards at my blog.

Congratulations on an excellent work!
2.

Roy (March 19th, 2007, 2:01 pm)

For those interested in eCommerce - checkout Link [www.varien.com] by Varien
3.

gfx (March 19th, 2007, 2:51 pm)

i love you smashing magazine!
4.

Chaaban (March 19th, 2007, 6:06 pm)

Thanks for finally giving up some sources :)
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Espenhh (March 19th, 2007, 6:07 pm)

What a great list. I really have to check some of these out. The problem only is that it is WAY to many for my spare-time =)

- Espen, Link [hoppetau.no]
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David Airey :: Creative Design :: (March 19th, 2007, 6:11 pm)

A comprehensive list indeed.

What I’d like to see is an explanation of each one so I know which I’d prefer to visit.

Thanks.
7.

OverZero.it (March 19th, 2007, 7:20 pm)

IMPRESSIVE!
You have done a great job with this list.
Thank you very much!
8.

Mike Panic (March 19th, 2007, 9:17 pm)

I’ve been an active member of Site Point’s forums for so long, I don’t know where I’d be w/out them in the early days.
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Keith Donegan (March 19th, 2007, 11:05 pm)

Excellent as always Smash…
10.

Andrew Faulkner (March 19th, 2007, 11:22 pm)

Thanks for the inclusion, guys.
11.

Nick Finck (March 19th, 2007, 11:35 pm)

Myself and the crew here at Digital Web Magazine are both humbled and honored to be featured on your list and amoung so many excellent magazines. Thank you!
12.

zoel (March 19th, 2007, 11:48 pm)

Thanx for it , a great job with this list.
13.

Puneet Thakkar (March 20th, 2007, 3:02 am)

Now That’s a good LIST can be said..

Keep it UP

Regards
Puneet M
14.

Allen Stern (March 20th, 2007, 3:21 am)

Looks like CenterNetworks missed the cut - well there is always next year!

Congrats to all those that made it!
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Anthony (March 20th, 2007, 3:32 am)

My two personal favorites that didn’t make the list: Ultrashock.com (Flash Forum) and Ozzu.com (webmaster forum).

Ultra-shock is a must if you are a Flash designer. Those guys rock the Flash house
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wpthemes (March 20th, 2007, 3:36 am)

Thanks for the list, discovered some good sites today from this list!
:)
17.

Ryan (March 20th, 2007, 4:33 am)

Sometimes determining the next big thing is not as important as mastering the current big thing. I am very surprised that Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/) did not make the list. Some of the bleeding-edge technologists out there could benefit from the extensive human-computer interaction analysis found on his site.
18.

Cymry (March 20th, 2007, 5:22 am)

Great list. I’ve bookmarked quite a few to check out later Thanks.
19.

Reno (March 20th, 2007, 7:11 am)

Oh good gravy that is a whole lot more reading to get around. Hopefully will have time left to actually do some coding/designing.
20.

Brian (March 20th, 2007, 11:24 am)

Great List i have tagged a few of these…
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Kuswanto (March 20th, 2007, 11:24 am)

Wow!!! nice list. Keep up the good work.
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inspirationbit (March 20th, 2007, 3:44 pm)

ha… I’ve Link [www.inspirationbit.com] that Smashing Magazine will publish this post on March 7th - 11 days before it appeared here :-)
23.

BaroqueW (March 20th, 2007, 6:41 pm)

Thank you for sharing sources and giving us inspiration!
24.

Balakumar Muthu (March 20th, 2007, 8:23 pm)

Amazing list! thanks :)
25.

Avinash (March 20th, 2007, 9:02 pm)

Wonderful list!! I was familiar with only 40% of the sites listed in this list. You people always come up with an interesting idea!
26.

uzbek (March 20th, 2007, 9:30 pm)

so where are those digg and del.icio.us links ??? :)

Nice list…

Thanks … keep up the good job…
27.

inspirationbit (March 20th, 2007, 10:58 pm)

you forgot to update your permalink, it still says 40-designtech-magazines-to-read/
28.

Seraphim (March 21st, 2007, 12:15 am)

commarts.com — Communication Arts Network
29.

gilbert (March 21st, 2007, 3:27 am)

you can rate all these websites…give your fave a thumbs up…and the rest a thumbs down! over at Link [www.thumbwarz.com]
30.

heather r . (March 21st, 2007, 9:22 am)

I read about a third already, and the rest look just as fascinating. Thank you for compiling these!
31.

streaky (March 21st, 2007, 12:50 pm)

Before & After is worth every penny, been getting it for a while, though I’m no designer, it’s given me some great ideas and inspiration in the past when I’ve needed it.
32.

jennessa (March 22nd, 2007, 1:31 am)

This is what I try to search on google. Thanks for collecting these links. Very useful information.
33.

Christian Watson (March 22nd, 2007, 12:21 pm)

Nice list, although I’m a little disappointed that more user experience resources aren’t included.

As Ryan, notes it’s hard to exclude Useit from a list like this. I would also include UIE’s Brainsparks blog (http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/). And maybe lastly, Link [www.guuui.com] - after all it is “The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break”!

PS: Please can we have a comment preview?
34.

deko (March 23rd, 2007, 4:07 pm)

wow! thanks for the list

but you missed Link [designcorner.blinkr.net] ;)
35.

Blue Buffalo (March 29th, 2007, 2:35 am)

Awesome list! I use quite a few of these sites, but there are some that I haven’t checked out. If you have SitePoint, A List Apart, Graphics.com, etc….then the others must be good.
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José López (May 4th, 2007, 12:05 am)

One list very good and very useful, thak you a lot of…
37.

guilty (May 18th, 2007, 5:36 am)

thanks you smashingmagazine = )
38.

Freelance Website Design (June 12th, 2007, 12:33 am)

I love smashing magazine, You guys have the greatest stuff!

These is a very good list of must have sites. bookmarked.
39.

Randolph Valencia (July 2nd, 2007, 1:52 am)

a very useful list. nice job!
40.

Randolph (July 6th, 2007, 2:30 pm)

a smashing list!
41.

RV (August 24th, 2007, 3:27 am)

WOW! what a cool and useful list you’ve created! Thanks!
42.

Meble (September 29th, 2007, 11:31 pm)

a smashing list!
43.

Alex Bell (October 10th, 2007, 2:01 pm)

Very clearly written. Thank you.
44.

praca wrocław (December 18th, 2007, 10:30 am)

Many, many, many thanks for list!
Great job!
45.

RV (January 20th, 2008, 7:24 am)

WOW! Great list here!

thanks,

Link [www.jrconsumer.com]
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ahmed (January 24th, 2008, 7:09 pm)

I just wanted to say WOW!t
47.

Web Designer Group (February 14th, 2008, 5:11 am)

Thanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
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rich mathman (February 21st, 2008, 3:21 am)

That must be a quality links for you are currently at 3,532 in website ranking on alexa! Thanks man, from good to great websites, what an awe inspiring concept to get.
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john rodler (March 9th, 2008, 3:19 pm)

really cool list, thanks!

Link [fojoware.com]
50.

rima (March 26th, 2008, 10:46 am)

really,great list…..
51.

Sally Milo (April 4th, 2008, 3:21 pm)

OH NO!!! Not more cool stuff for me to check out!
Thank you - I’ll take some time away from my eBay discussion boards to go to each of those!
52.

Części Honda (April 22nd, 2008, 11:52 am)

Really grat list . Big THANKS. COOL i like this site. Bye
53.

Schmoo (April 23rd, 2008, 3:11 am)

Thanks a bunch! That’s all my spare time for the foreseeable future down the toilet… ;)
54.

Części Nissan (April 24th, 2008, 6:57 am)

Real good job. Big thanks man
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56.

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Zeytin (September 14th, 2008, 4:38 pm)

Thanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
Link [www.zeytin.net]