The Top 35 UX Blogs (According to Google) and How to Search Them All at Once

12 Comments 09.03.10

In looking to write about the forthcoming Twitter push notifications tonight, I grabbed a list of the top 35 UX (user experience) blogs, according to Google’s new blog finder feature. (Didn’t know about that? ReadWriteWeb was the only leading blog that covered it.) The algorithm isn’t that great, in terms of ranking, but it took me from nothing to a whole lot of something in a hurry. It was more an experiment than anything else, to see how well Google’s new blog directory search worked. You know what else might prove useful? Googling for “top UX blogs” and finding human-compiled lists like this one from Whitney Hess.

I usually have much more extensive and rigorous processes for identifying the top blogs in a niche, but I needed something quick and dirty tonight. The real bummer? None of these blogs have ever written about the UX of push notifications! Amazing! I’m pinging some UX pros on Twitter though to see if they’ll comment for a write-up.

In the mean time, someone asked me on Twitter “what are the top 35 UX blogs online?” so I thought I’d share my work. Again, this is quick and dirty. But it’s better than nothing. My list so far is below and you can search the archives of all these blogs from this one URL. I even added 9 more from Hess and still nothing! Can you believe Bokardo, for example, has never blogged the phrase “push notifications”??

Identifying the top blogs in a niche is something I sometimes do for consulting clients and you’d better believe my deliverables are a lot prettier than this :) but it’s 1:30 AM and I’m trying to write a blog post. I made this list and the custom search engine to search years of UX blogging experience in about 10 minutes, in case you’re curious. Boom!


http://uie.com
http://uxbookclub.com
http://ux.artu.tv
http://dswillis.com/uxcrank
http://blogs.msdn.com/canu
http://uxdige.st
http://uxagile.com
http://www.uxunleashed.com
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net
http://instone.org
http://uxstorytellers.blogspot.com
http://www.everydayux.com
http://developingux.com
http://www.agile-ux.com
http://ux.raquedan.com
http://chrisshattuck.com
http://uxdesignedge.com
http://www.solidstateux.com
http://www.balsamiq.com/blogs
http://uxgroup.wordpress.com
http://blogs.sweux.com
http://uxuniversity.org
http://www.uxforgood.org
http://uxnerd.com
http://www.flyover18.com/christhi
http://uxpillow.blogspot.com
http://www.theuxcritic.com
http://www.uxbydesign.org
http://designingux.com
http://uxp.blogspot.com
http://www.uxmag.com
http://www.uxsuccess.com
http://www.sleepingdeer.com
http://www.epicuserexperience.com
http://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog

Then I added these ones from Whitney Hess, too, to the Custom Search Engine. They look great.

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  • http://favit.com/marfi Martin

    I am afraid google missed a lot of awesome blogs:

    http://52weeksofux.com/ to name one.

    My favorite:

    http://uxmyths.com

    Cheers!

  • John

    Too bad it doesn’t include Tweets too.

  • http://iasrobot.com Deane Rimerman

    Nice post… Real-time posting that’s a response to a tweet… Too cool! Super-double-thumbs up to you!

  • http://whitneyhess.com/blog/ Whitney Hess

    Marshall, the reason you don’t find many blog posts from us on such niche topics is that we often spend a significant amount of time discussing these issues via Twitter. I’m more than happy to be interviewed for anything UX-related in the future, and can connect you with other appropriate folks based on the topic: whitney@whitneyhess.com

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  • http://twocroissants.wordpress.com Bertil Hatt

    None of the 40 blogs about UX and information design seems to be in there… is this the first time you’ve used this feature? Have you asked the other “leading blogs” if the reason they didn’t mention it was because the results were surprising? It seems that it has a strong bias towards name in the URL — a good indication of relevance, but not quality and not one that matches my crawling neither my taste for too long sentences, apparently.

    I like Whitney(‘s list) better.

    From interaction with way to many frustrating notification apps, I’d say: allow personalisation. A lot of tweak & bells & switches. (Don’t worry: it’s the control-freak power-user talking again.)

  • http://oakhazelnut.com Amber Case

    I find pattern libraries very useful.

    Chris Messina has a very nice one on Flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/72157600001823120/

    And the classic Yahoo! Design Pattern Library has always served me well:
    http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

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  • Passionaboutweb

    hey thanks marshall