Recently we’re starting to spot a kind of newsletter “inflation” in our field.
Its no secret that emailing is one of the best ways to reach out to an audience, and its actually good for us in this ever-changing industry.
We need that information pushed into our blood in order to stay on top of all the latest changes in this fast evolving world.
In the following post I’ve put together a list of my favorite newsletters. Even some of which are not design/product/code related but I believe will be worth your time.
If you recommend any newsletters that are not mentioned in this list feel free to add them in the comments.
Enjoy!
WebDesignerNewsWebdesignerNews is a community-curated, forum-like news site for designers and developers. Each day they round up the best articles and send them in their newsletter.
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Inside Intercom Inside Intercom is a blog about design, product, and marketing. The Intercom team writes amazing articles backed by data and research, which makes their articles so impressive and thought provoking.
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Brian Lovin – Design Details Brian Lovin from Buffer reviews the design details of the newest apps and platforms in his blog, accompanied by screen recordings that pinpoint the fine UI tunings.
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Litmus Litmus is an emailing platform, and they set an inspiring example of what the cutting edge of email design looks like. They have amazingly designed newsletters and are a must for anyone working on emails or marketing designs.
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HackingUI Weekly
Our very own newsletter in which we post curated links each week about design, front-end, startups, product management and much more. You’re welcome to sign up:
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User Onboard User Onboarding is a site by Samuel Hulick, a UX Designer from Portland, which takes up on exploring how different apps onboard users. Worth signing up to get notified each time he covers a new app.
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Design+code Meng To’s Design+Code is an awesome newsletter with curated reasources, especially great for Sketch lovers and iPhone devs.
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Thrive Solo Solo is a project management tools for freelance designers. They have amazing design, and also one of my favorite newsletters in terms of inspiration for how newsletters and marketing materials should look like. They re-invent themselves each time anew.
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Sketch App SourcesSketch App Sources is, as the name suggests, a site full of Sketch resources such as freebies and tutorials. Their newsletter sums up their latest most popular resources and some relevant links to new Sketch plugins and tutorials.
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DN digest Designer News is the community that really keeps me with my head above the water. The design world’s greatest articles are shared there, and signing up to their digest is another way for me to keep track of the stuff that gets shared there (btw- another source is Panda chrome extension in which I’ve written about in my article – 24 chrome extension for designers and front end developers)
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Invision New Feature Updates Invision emails are inspiring for any designer that has a touch to marketing materials. Highly recommended.
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Invision Blog Invision also has great content from their blog, featuring interviews with designers from amazing companies.
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Web Tools Weekly Like the name suggests – this is a newsletter full of great tools for web development. Its divided by the categories
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MailchimpUX Mailchimp has a UX newsletter which is more like a blog in the format of a newsletter. The mailchimp UX team write about their thoughts and processes, and link to their own resources. Its a very important newsletter for designers.
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Smashing Magazine Smashing’s newsletter is a great source of information and inspiration for designers and front end developers. It also updates about their workshops and confrences around the world.
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Codrops: Collective Codrops are plain awesome! Their newsletter aggregates cool links to inspiration sources, interesting articles, freebies, and most importantly their own stuff. They manage to amaze me with their front end tutorials each time anew. They manage to combine magnificant front end coding with creative UX thinking to come up with ways of breaking the modern design patterns but in a way which is actually not too much out there.
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SitePoint Sitepoint is an email digest of agregated links that you sign up to by subject. It has all sorts of subjects including Design Javascript, Mobile, Ruby development and more.
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Designmodo These guys not only have a cool newsletter, but also have amazing products for designers so its nice to recieve updates on those as well.
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Web Designer Depot The newsletter of Web Designer Depot is a short but practical one. Sometimes I find there links to important stuff that I did not find anywhere else.
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Unheap My favorite newsletter when it comes to cool JS scripts. Unheap will send you cool usable scripts every couple if days.
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Line25 by Chris Spooner Line25 is probably the newsletter I’ve been subscribed for as long as I can remember. Chris Spooner shares roundups of cool inspiration from sites, freebies and apps.
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OKdork by Noah Kagan Amazing marketing email by Noah Kagan (Microsoft, Facebook, Mint, and now founder of Appsumo) – its a must. Really!
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Unsplash One of the first quality sites for free stock photos. Unsplash is a site full of inspirational photos that you can use in your designs. They also have this newsletter.
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Death to the Stock Photo Monthly newsletter that sends you curated free photos for any use.
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ProductHunt ProductHunt is a vote list site that allows people to share cool digital (and sometimes also not digital) products they use. Its a highly recommended site to track, and has a newsletter with the top products each day. The community around it also built mobile apps and a chrome extension to consume its contents in different ways. The site was developed by Ryan Hoover and has quite a story around it so I would recommend also reading about that.Sign Up | Read about ProductHunt’s Story by Ryan Hoover | Tweet this
1designperday 1 Design Per day is an insparational Industrial Design newsletter that brings you – as its name says – 1 very cool product design each day to your mailbox.
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Pillow Talk Not at all related to design, but a great newsletter to remind you and let you know about ways to keep the flame burning high with your partner.
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Hacker Newsletter If you’re working with startups and interested in the tech world, Hacker newsletter is for you. Its a curated list of popular articles from Hacker News of Ycombinator
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zenhabits This is an amazing blog, and its design is also one to inspire. Leo Balbuta is a father to 6 children, a husband, an athelete and a minimalist from San Fran that creates great pieces of zen-driven articles that hit any hard working, western living person’s arterry every time and really gives us stuff to think about in our crazy lives.
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uiGIFs uiGIFs is a newsletter that sends you animated UI inspiration in your inbox every Monday. Nice quick inspiration and not too heavy.
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Product Design Weekly A new design newsletter, from the team at Atomic.io
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Really Good Emails A gallery full of inspiring emails sent from various apps and services. Highly recommended (and yeah, it’s an newsletter about emails)
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More great newsletters
Makers Weekly – A new weekly newsletter with quality resources for app designers and developers.
UX Design Weekly – a hand picked list of the best user experience design links every week. Curated by Kenny Chen and published every Friday.
Travis Neilson – A weekly note from Travis Neilson – a SF based designer, about design and UX related issues.