10 People to follow as a UX Designer stepping into 2021
3 min readDec 29, 2020
2020 has been not great year for everyone especially with the COVID around but there are always opportunities that we can catch hold of even in difficult times. Being a UX Designer who are stepping into 2021 these 10 people can help you in enhancing your career and be a better designer and a better person.
The following list is not in any particular order, and it is not an exclusive designer only list but it might include people from other domains as well. This list is from my personal experience and based on whom I follow on a regular basis.
- Ran Segal
If you are interested in web design and looking to begin your freelance journey in design this guy is my personal favourite. You follow him for great content on freelancing and learn more about web design in particular.
Follow on Youtube - Johnathan Courtney
If you are Interested in product design and want to to learn about design sprints the cover on this topics extensively. He runs a very cool design agency called AJ&Smart which is their official name that you can find online which has great content for Beginner and intermediate UX Designers.
Follow on Youtube - Chris Do
If you are a designer he would already be on your list by now. If not just do and follow him immediately. Though he is more of a graphic designer, he talks more about design in general and helps designers to learn the business of design.
Follow on Youtube - Sun yi
This one on the list is not a designers but a story teller and a motivator, if you are looking to become an entrepreneur in design and voice your thoughts to the public his posts are great inspiration & a good learning place
Follow on Instagram - Jon Kolko
If you want to know more on empathy and how to design meaningful products, his videos are a great eye openers. If you are interested in research in design and want to know how to put design thinking intp practice his case studies are great. - Fabian Geyrhalter
Is branding an area of interest for you and want to become more of a strategic thinker than a designer his books and videos will be of great help.
Follow on Instagram - Morejanda
Another person whose content are great if you are interested in freelancing in design and want to know the different aspects of how to set up a small scale design agency
Follow on Instagram - Howard Pinsky
Want to learn design tools especially Adobe Xd, their new features and what all things you can do with Adobe Xd this guy is so elegant and fun to watch & learn from
Follow on Youtube - Pixel geek
Are you interested in building websites on your own without coding? Webflow is a tool that helps you do that and this guy is like a pro using the tool and he has lots of resources on how you can learn to do complicated web design functionalities easily
Follow on Youtube - King Sidharth
If you are interested in Indian Product design content and want to learn Product design and know about design portfolio, this guy is there on the top among a very few other in India
Follow on Youtube
That’s the end, have a great new year 2021..
