Reading and listening

Writing, reportage, analysis, podcasts, and radio shows.

Last updated 2019, and not currently maintained.

Magazines and blogs

• A List Apart (design, development, some criticism)
• MIT Technology Review (general technology news)
• Boxes and Arrows (design, with an emphasis on interaction design, information architecture, and user experience)
• Smashing Magazine (lots of material, mostly technical or technique-oriented)
• NiemanLab (journalism)
• The Manual (“a design journal for the web”)
• It’s Nice That
• Print Magazine (not just print!)
• AIGA Eye on Design
• Design Observer
• r/webdev
• Designer News

Radio/podcasts

• 99% Invisible (radio series about design, by Roman Mars)
• Reply All (podcast by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman)
• Note to Self (podcast and radio show by Manoush Zomorodi)
• Working File (“a podcast about design practice and its relationship to the world”)
• Scratching the Surface (podcast interviews about “the intersection of criticism and practice for graphic designers,” hosted by Jarrett Fuller)
• The Big Web Show (podcast by Jeffrey Zeldman; interviews with luminaries)
• The Web Ahead (podcast by Jen Simmons; shows about web technology)
• Through Process (podcast by Joshua Namdev Hardisty and Mitch Goldstein)

Design/technology writers

• Liz Danzico
• Jeffrey Zeldman
• Frank Chimero
• Alissa Walker
• Information Architects Inc. blog
• John Gruber
• Craig Mod
• Luke Wroblewski
• Bruce Schneier (digital security and privacy)
• Daily Heller
• Kottke.org
• Jason Santa Maria
• Jeffrey Zeldman
• Rachel Andrew
• Subtraction
• Frank Chimero
• Zeynep Tufekci (technology and privacy)