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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.
[Offtopic: by the way, do you know the Smashing Network has its own Smashing Network RSS Feed? Only excerpts are displayed in the feed.]
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
Further Online Journals
The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. Runs the business.
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- 3March 19th, 2007 2:51 pm
i love you smashing magazine!
- 4March 19th, 2007 6:06 pm
Thanks for finally giving up some sources :)
- 5March 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.
- 6March 19th, 2007 7:20 pm
IMPRESSIVE!
You have done a great job with this list.
Thank you very much! - 7March 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.
- 8March 19th, 2007 11:05 pm
Excellent as always Smash…
- 9March 19th, 2007 11:22 pm
Thanks for the inclusion, guys.
- 10March 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!
- 11March 19th, 2007 11:48 pm
Thanx for it , a great job with this list.
- 12March 20th, 2007 3:02 am
Now That’s a good LIST can be said..
Keep it UP
Regards
Puneet M - 13March 20th, 2007 3:21 am
Looks like CenterNetworks missed the cut – well there is always next year!
Congrats to all those that made it!
- 14March 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
- 15March 20th, 2007 3:36 am
Thanks for the list, discovered some good sites today from this list!
:) - 16March 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.
- 17March 20th, 2007 5:22 am
Great list. I’ve bookmarked quite a few to check out later Thanks.
- 18March 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.
- 19March 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
- 20March 20th, 2007 11:24 am
Great List i have tagged a few of these…
- 21March 20th, 2007 11:24 am
Wow!!! nice list. Keep up the good work.
- 22March 20th, 2007 3:44 pm
ha… I’ve predicted that Smashing Magazine will publish this post on March 7th – 11 days before it appeared here :-)
- 23March 20th, 2007 6:41 pm
Thank you for sharing sources and giving us inspiration!
- 24March 20th, 2007 8:23 pm
Amazing list! thanks :)
- 25March 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!
- 26March 20th, 2007 9:30 pm
so where are those digg and del.icio.us links ??? :)
Nice list…
Thanks … keep up the good job…
- 27March 20th, 2007 10:58 pm
you forgot to update your permalink, it still says 40-designtech-magazines-to-read/
- 28March 21st, 2007 9:22 am
I read about a third already, and the rest look just as fascinating. Thank you for compiling these!
- 29March 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.
- 30March 22nd, 2007 1:31 am
This is what I try to search on google. Thanks for collecting these links. Very useful information.
- 31March 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, http://www.guuui.com/ – after all it is “The Interaction Designer’s Coffee Break”!
PS: Please can we have a comment preview?
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- 33March 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.
- 34May 4th, 2007 12:05 am
One list very good and very useful, thak you a lot of…
- 35May 18th, 2007 5:36 am
thanks you smashingmagazine = )
- 36June 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.
- 37July 2nd, 2007 1:52 am
a very useful list. nice job!
- 38July 6th, 2007 2:30 pm
a smashing list!
- 39August 24th, 2007 3:27 am
WOW! what a cool and useful list you’ve created! Thanks!
- 40September 29th, 2007 11:31 pm
a smashing list!
- 41October 10th, 2007 2:01 pm
Very clearly written. Thank you.
- 42December 18th, 2007 10:30 am
Many, many, many thanks for list!
Great job! - 43
- 44January 24th, 2008 7:09 pm
I just wanted to say WOW!t
- 45February 14th, 2008 5:11 am
Thanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
- 46February 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.
- 47March 9th, 2008 3:19 pm
really cool list, thanks!
- 48March 26th, 2008 10:46 am
really,great list…..
- 49April 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! - 50April 22nd, 2008 11:52 am
Really grat list . Big THANKS. COOL i like this site. Bye
- 51April 23rd, 2008 3:11 am
Thanks a bunch! That’s all my spare time for the foreseeable future down the toilet… ;)
- 52April 24th, 2008 6:57 am
Real good job. Big thanks man
- 53July 28th, 2008 11:30 pm
Ya 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.
- 54September 11th, 2008 7:25 pm
super SM. i think nobody can beet u
- 55September 14th, 2008 4:38 pm
Thanks a lot for sharing such nice collection.
- 56December 14th, 2008 9:57 am
good work
- 57December 31st, 2008 3:09 am
So this cheat sheet will be really usefull for the other programmer, due to their limited knowedge about the power of MySql.
- 58January 26th, 2009 7:52 am
nice job! Lovely magazines
- 59February 17th, 2009 1:03 am
gud not bad
- 60April 27th, 2009 7:34 pm
smashing give us a new and different idea’s….
thank q
- 61July 26th, 2009 10:21 am
open sources thousand 1980 cause available likely
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