As many of us continue to work remotely due to COVID, it’s more important than ever to stay up-to-date with the latest web design and development news.
Where do you find helpful newsletters?
I’ve had good luck finding newsletters from attending conferences, getting recommendations from friends and co-workers, as well as finding newsletters via tweets.
Over the years, I’ve subscribed to dozens of online newsletters for web design, CSS, user experience, accessibility, and web development.
And I’ve whittled down my list to a few of the ones that stand out for me.
Newsletters that consistently provide helpful tips, resources, and lessons learned for working on the web.
If you’re looking for new web design and development newsletters to subscribe to, here are some of my favorites.
- The Smashing Email Newsletter: Published by Smashing Magazine every Tuesday, you’ll discover useful tips and techniques for front-end and user experience in the newsletter. When you subscribe, you’ll receive their Interface Design Checklists (131 MB, PDF) as a gift.
- Web Design Update: Weekly web design and development news curated by Laura Carlson at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, it’s one of my favorite newsletters to share!
- Designer News: Each week, Speckyboy publishes their weekly newsletter with web design resources, learning guides, opinionated views, and free user interface tools published in the past week.
- User Weekly: Launched in summer 2021, User Weekly is one of the most recent newsletters I’ve subscribed to. Focused on what’s happening in user research, the publisher Jan Ahrend goes through over hundreds of articles from mainstream media to small blogs to publish a weekly newsletters that answers the question: What mattered in user research this week?
- WebAIM Newsletter: One of the oldest newsletters in the web community, WebAIM is published monthly with news and updates about web accessibility, including articles, tips, and resources. I’ve been a longtime subscriber to their newsletter.
- wpMail.me: Free WordPress newsletter, with a roundup of the latest WordPress news, tutorials, and podcasts. As leader of two local WordPress meetup groups, I need to stay up-to-date on the latest with WordPress.
Originally published December 28, 2018. Updated December 28, 2020 and December 31, 2021.
