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.