Design your way

Monday, August 17, 2015

I must admit that I haven’t been addicted to Twitter since I created my account, but lately I started to like it a lot. Being up-to-date with everything that goes in the design niche isn’t an easy task, but gets easier when you’re following the proper people.

While there are hundreds of awesome designers who create great work and can inspire you, there are a few who regularly post on Twitter and offer useful resources and information in their Tweets.

In this article there are a few of these interesting UI and Web designers worth following. Also, if you think I missed someone, send me a tweet and I’ll add that person to the list.

Luke Wroblewski

LukeW is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed and built software used by more than one billion people worldwide.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Author, Designing With Web Standards and other works. Blogging at zeldman.com since 1995. Founder and Publisher, A List Apart, the magazine “for people who make websites” (1998). Founder and Chairman, Happy Cog™ design studios (1999). Cofounder, The Web Standards Project (1998-2002), “fighting for standards in our browsers.”

Cofounder, An Event Apart (2005), the design conference for people who make websites. Cofounder and Publisher, A Book Apart (2010)–brief books for people who make websites. Host of “The Big Web Show” (“everything web that matters”) design show on Mule Radio.

Jason Santa Maria

Jason is a Design Director at Vox Media, author of On Web Typography, co-founder of A Book Apart; faculty at the MFA Interaction Design program at SVA; and founder of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces online. Previously, he served as vice president of AIGA/NY and creative director for A List Apart and Typekit.

Jen Simmons

As a full-stack designer since 1996, with expertise in HTML & CSS, her projects include front-end development work for CERN, design work for Google and the W3C, and clients from Mark Boulton Design to the Annenberg Foundation.

Bogdan Sandu – shameless plug

Bogdan Sandu is editor at Design Your Way, the online magazine for designers that you are currently on, and UI Designer at Visual Hierarchy, a marketplace for designers to sell and buy high quality resources.

Ryan Carson

Ryan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Treehouse an online technology school that teaches you how to make Apps. Previously Ryan founded Carsonified (acquired 2011) and DropSend (acquired 2008).

Brad Frost

Brad Frost is a web designer, speaker, consultant, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He’s constantly tweeting, writing and speaking about the web and other topics.

Veerle Pieters

Belgian graphic/web designer, author of Veerle’s blog and chief of the playground at Duoh!

Toke Nygaard

Antonio Carusone

He’s a designer, born and raised in Queens, NY. He’s currently the Director of Product Design at MakeSpace.

Chad Engle

He’s a designer with 8 years in the field currently working for BoomTown, a software company in Charleston, SC. His skillset ranges all facets of design (product, brand, identity, web, mobile, email etc.) as well as writing, editing, creative direction & consulting. He’s a problem solver & story-teller through graphics.

Brett Widmann

Brian McDaniel

Michael Wong

He loves beautiful designs but his skillset and interests go beyond that. He has always had an interest in growth, conversion rate optimization and behavioural economics which all have played a significant role in his career and have influenced many of his design decisions.

Bono Calacal

Bono Calacal is a freelance web and graphic designer rocking and shouting out from the Philippines.

Patrick Haney

He’s a designer/developer hybrid and co-founder of Hanerino, a design studio in Rochester, NY. He’s a former instructor at the CDA and founder of Refresh Boston.

Brian Hoff

Nick La

Jeff SanGeorge

Larissa Meek

Richard Lemon

Janko Jovanovic

He’s an experience designer from Belgrade that helps companies shape their businesses, processes, products and services. His background is in engineering, but he’s have been designing interfaces for the last 13 years.

Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer, speaker, and author. He is the Creative Director of Adobe Typekit, co-founder of lifestyle magazine Lagom, founder of typography magazine 8 Faces, and an electronic musician.

Andrew Clarke

He’s a designer and author known for his design work and contributions to the web design industry. For over fifteen years, he’s made designs for his clients, written two books and given over fifty presentations to web designers and developers all over the world.

Kay Brighton

Ivo Mynttinen

Maxim Orlov

Chris Kaufman

Chris Kaufman is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of UpTo. As an entrepreneur and product designer his work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and BusinessWeek, among others. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients, including Ford, Lowe’s, Chrysler, Audi, American Standard, and Pulte Homes.

Mike Kus

Mike is a UK based designer specialising in Web/UI Design, Graphic Design, Branding, Illustration & Photography. He has a worldwide client roster and his work is regulary featured in design related publications. Mike is also a regular speaker at design/tech conferences.

Adii Pienaar

Cameron Moll

Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and five sons. He’s the founder of Authentic Jobs Inc, among other endeavors.