Update: I created a standalone site at teamdesign.team based on the aggregated content on this post. This page will live on, but I recommend following along over there, or via the site’s RSS feed.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about writing and how beneficial it is (especially for designers) to connect and share with our broader communities of practice through storytelling. It can be scary to put content out into the world, even more so when you’re representing a team. Sharing our processes, experiments, failures, and aha moments though is the best way for all of us to learn. Blogging regularly as a team has the added benefit of creating a window into the culture of our organizations, providing a glimpse of what working there is like. I first experienced the value of writing externally as a team while helping run The UX Newsletter at Mailchimp. I learned from the feedback we received after each issue that many other UX teams were working through the same challenges.
Back in April, I wrote my first post for Design at Sprout Social. Since then, I’ve been encouraging my colleagues to contribute as well. To help inspire my teammates to share, I went looking for other design team blogs. I couldn’t find a comprehensive list anywhere, so I just started collecting the feeds I could find in a folder on Feedly. I thought other folks might find it useful as well, so I put together this evergreen post.
Design Team Blogs
The list below includes every active design team blog I could find at time of writing that met the following requirements:
- Only in-house design or UX team blogs – I included company blogs as long as there was a design or UX-specific category to follow.
- At least one post in the last year – I discovered many dormant team sites with great articles, but I’m only including active blogs in this list.
- Must have an RSS feed – It’s tough to follow a site that isn’t on a shared platform and doesn’t have a feed URL. I’d love to keep up with OpenTable Design and Google Design, but neither site has a feed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks to WP RSS Aggregator, the 20 most recent posts, and latest 3 posts for each design team update daily. Know of any that I missed? Did a dormant blog start posting again? Drop a comment here and I’ll update the list.
Currently including 41 design team blogs | Skip to: Athenahealth, Atlassian, Automattic, Babbel, Booking.com, Deliveroo, Doctolib, DoorDash, Dropbox, Duolingo, Emplifi, Faire, Hubspot, IBM, Indeed, Instacart, Intercom, Intuit, Kingfisher, Klaviyo, Lattice, Lyft, Medium, Meta, Microsoft, OYO, Pinterest, Plaid, Prudential, Salesforce, SAP, Shopify, Slack, Spotify, Sprout Social, Thumbtack, VMware, Wayfair, Wix, Yelp, Zendesk
20 Most Recent Posts
- The Digital Customer Service Takeover
- Ears Wide Open: A Guide into the Power of True Listening
- The project that shifted my perspective as a designer
- Two heads are better than one: Building strong partnerships in the modern workplace
- Efficient Elegance: Integrating UX Principles into Handbag Design
- Ansible for IBM Z User Spotlight Series: Jacob Emery
- How we launched AI within Slack in 6 months
- Job applications as a designer: get intentful about your recruitment
- Setting Up Your UX Mentorship Program For Success
- Meet Alicia Blázquez
- Meet Aldo Padilla
- Make your workshops work with framing
- The Personalized Workspaces of Automattic’s Designers
- A Love Letter to Notion: The Productivity App That Stole My Heart (And Mind)
- Introducing ‘Off Script’, a new series from Intercom
- Vikram's redesign: From negative stereotypes to authentic representation
- Three easy ways to boost creativity while you work
- Why we planned our design team offsite around shared experiences
- When Selecting the Best UX Icons, Context Is Essential
- Designing intentionally inclusive products at Pinterest
Athenahealth Design
https://medium.com/athenahealth-design (RSS)
Designing Atlassian
https://medium.com/designing-atlassian (RSS)
Automattic Design
https://automattic.design (RSS)
Babbel Design
https://medium.com/babbeldesign (RSS)
Booking.com – UX Design
Deliveroo Design
https://medium.com/deliveroo-design (RSS)
Doctolib Design
https://medium.com/doctolib/tagged/design (RSS)
Design @ DoorDash
https://medium.com/design-doordash (RSS)
Dropbox Design
https://medium.com/dropbox-design (RSS)
Duolingo Design
https://blog.duolingo.com/tag/design (RSS)
Emplifi Design
https://medium.com/emplifi-design (RSS)
Faire Design
https://craft.faire.com/tagged/design (RSS)
Hubspot UX
https://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/ux (RSS)
IBM Design
https://medium.com/design-ibm (RSS)
Indeed Design
https://medium.com/indeed-design (RSS)
Instacart Design
https://medium.com/instacart-design (RSS)
Inside Intercom – Product & Design
https://www.intercom.com/blog/product-and-design/ (RSS)
Intuit Design Hub
https://design.intuit.com (RSS)
Kingfisher Design
https://medium.com/kingfisher-design (RSS)
Klaviyo Design
https://medium.com/klaviyo-design (RSS)
Lattice Design
https://design.lattice.com (RSS via Substack)
Lyft Design+
Medium.design
Design at Meta
https://medium.com/designatmeta (RSS)
Microsoft Design
https://medium.com/microsoft-design (RSS)
OYO Product Design
https://medium.com/oyo-product-design (RSS)
Pinterest Design
https://pinterest.design (RSS)
Plaid Design
https://medium.com/plaid-design (RSS)
Prudential Design
https://medium.com/prudential-design (RSS)
Salesforce Designer
https://medium.com/salesforce-ux (RSS)
SAP Design
https://medium.com/sap-design (RSS)
Shopify UX
Slack Design
Spotify.Design
Design at Sprout Social
https://medium.com/sprout-social-design (RSS)
Thumbtack Design
https://medium.com/thumbtack-design (RSS)
VMware Design
https://medium.com/vmwaredesign (RSS)
Wayfair Experience Design
https://medium.com/wayfair-design (RSS)
Wix UX
Yelp Design
https://medium.com/yelp-design (RSS)