42 Design/Tech Magazines To Read
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
2. A List Apart
4. Netdiver digital culture magazine + new media portal -> Feed your eyes
5. PingMag
6. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
7. Ajaxian
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.
20. graphicPUSH: News, articles and tutorials for print and web designers.
21. Devlounge
22. Design Observer: writings about design & culture
24. 24 ways
25. Iconfactory
27. The FWA: Favourite Website Awards – Web awards at the cutting edge
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
Typography
37. Typographica. A Journal of Typography.
User Experience, Usability
38. UXmatters: Insights and inspirations for the user experience community
Useful tips, references
39. Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
News, with Tech/Design section
40. Newsvine – Get Smarter Here
41. SlashDot
42. Digg Design
MeTheGeek
March 19th, 2007 9:39 amYour lists rock!
I have just referenced the one about the job boards at my blog.
Congratulations on an excellent work!
Roy
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gfx
March 19th, 2007 2:51 pmi love you smashing magazine!
Chaaban
March 19th, 2007 6:06 pmThanks for finally giving up some sources :)
David Airey :: Creative Design ::
March 19th, 2007 6:11 pmA 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.
OverZero.it
March 19th, 2007 7:20 pmIMPRESSIVE!
You have done a great job with this list.
Thank you very much!
Mike Panic
March 19th, 2007 9:17 pmI’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.
Keith Donegan
March 19th, 2007 11:05 pmExcellent as always Smash…
Andrew Faulkner
March 19th, 2007 11:22 pmThanks for the inclusion, guys.
Nick Finck
March 19th, 2007 11:35 pmMyself 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!
zoel
March 19th, 2007 11:48 pmThanx for it , a great job with this list.
Puneet Thakkar
March 20th, 2007 3:02 amNow That’s a good LIST can be said..
Keep it UP
Regards
Puneet M
Allen Stern
March 20th, 2007 3:21 amLooks like CenterNetworks missed the cut – well there is always next year!
Congrats to all those that made it!
Anthony
March 20th, 2007 3:32 amMy 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
wpthemes
March 20th, 2007 3:36 amThanks for the list, discovered some good sites today from this list!
:)
Ryan
March 20th, 2007 4:33 amSometimes 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.
Cymry
March 20th, 2007 5:22 amGreat list. I’ve bookmarked quite a few to check out later Thanks.
Reno
March 20th, 2007 7:11 amOh good gravy that is a whole lot more reading to get around. Hopefully will have time left to actually do some coding/designing.
Espenhh
March 19th, 2007 6:07 pmWhat 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
Brian
March 20th, 2007 11:24 amGreat List i have tagged a few of these…
Kuswanto
March 20th, 2007 11:24 amWow!!! nice list. Keep up the good work.
inspirationbit
March 20th, 2007 3:44 pmha… I’ve predicted that Smashing Magazine will publish this post on March 7th – 11 days before it appeared here :-)
BaroqueW
March 20th, 2007 6:41 pmThank you for sharing sources and giving us inspiration!
Balakumar Muthu
March 20th, 2007 8:23 pmAmazing list! thanks :)
Avinash
March 20th, 2007 9:02 pmWonderful list!! I was familiar with only 40% of the sites listed in this list. You people always come up with an interesting idea!
uzbek
March 20th, 2007 9:30 pmso where are those digg and del.icio.us links ??? :)
Nice list…
Thanks … keep up the good job…
inspirationbit
March 20th, 2007 10:58 pmyou forgot to update your permalink, it still says 40-designtech-magazines-to-read/
heather r .
March 21st, 2007 9:22 amI read about a third already, and the rest look just as fascinating. Thank you for compiling these!
streaky
March 21st, 2007 12:50 pmBefore & 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.
jennessa
March 22nd, 2007 1:31 amThis is what I try to search on google. Thanks for collecting these links. Very useful information.
Christian Watson
March 22nd, 2007 12:21 pmNice 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, http://www.guuui.com/ – after all it is “The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break”!
PS: Please can we have a comment preview?
deko
March 23rd, 2007 4:07 pmwow! thanks for the list
but you missed DesignCorner ;)
Blue Buffalo
March 29th, 2007 2:35 amAwesome 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.
José López
May 4th, 2007 12:05 amOne list very good and very useful, thak you a lot of…
guilty
May 18th, 2007 5:36 amthanks you smashingmagazine = )
Freelance Website Design
June 12th, 2007 12:33 amI love smashing magazine, You guys have the greatest stuff!
These is a very good list of must have sites. bookmarked.
Randolph Valencia
July 2nd, 2007 1:52 ama very useful list. nice job!
Randolph
July 6th, 2007 2:30 pma smashing list!
RV
August 24th, 2007 3:27 amWOW! what a cool and useful list you’ve created! Thanks!
Meble
September 29th, 2007 11:31 pma smashing list!
Alex Bell
October 10th, 2007 2:01 pmVery clearly written. Thank you.
praca wrocław
December 18th, 2007 10:30 amMany, many, many thanks for list!
Great job!
RV
January 20th, 2008 7:24 amWOW! Great list here!
thanks,
rv
ahmed
January 24th, 2008 7:09 pmI just wanted to say WOW!t
Web Designer Group
February 14th, 2008 5:11 amThanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
rich mathman
February 21st, 2008 3:21 amThat 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.
john rodler
March 9th, 2008 3:19 pmreally cool list, thanks!
rima
March 26th, 2008 10:46 amreally,great list…..
Sally Milo
April 4th, 2008 3:21 pmOH 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!
Części Honda
April 22nd, 2008 11:52 amReally grat list . Big THANKS. COOL i like this site. Bye
Schmoo
April 23rd, 2008 3:11 amThanks a bunch! That’s all my spare time for the foreseeable future down the toilet… ;)
Części Nissan
April 24th, 2008 6:57 amReal good job. Big thanks man
Nancy
July 28th, 2008 11:30 pmYa you say right its IT industry daily new changes create in the market.So its very important to us we all are hear about it.
sid
September 11th, 2008 7:25 pmsuper SM. i think nobody can beet u
Zeytin
September 14th, 2008 4:38 pmThanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
CarGuy
December 14th, 2008 9:57 amgood work
Opinie o liceach
December 31st, 2008 3:09 amSo this cheat sheet will be really usefull for the other programmer, due to their limited knowedge about the power of MySql.
Q5 Web Design
January 26th, 2009 7:52 amnice job! Lovely magazines
honey
February 17th, 2009 1:03 amgud not bad
thila
April 27th, 2009 7:34 pmsmashing give us a new and different idea’s….
thank q
dannonlytl
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vidhu sharma
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Kevin
August 6th, 2010 9:16 amI think you should add http://www.tuvie.com on your list. This website features cool and futuristic gadget/technology.
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Alexander Stanuga
February 6th, 2012 5:20 amThese are fantastic! Thank you Smashing Mag!!