Monday, April 26, 2010

9 Essential Social News and Bookmarking Sites for Designers

1. DesignBump


DesignBump social news site’s interface will be familiar to those who are using Digg, Reddit, or Mixx. The concept is just simple: Get enough votes on your web links and it will be promoted to the front page to get more traffic.

currently DesignBump has over 16,000 users, with some famous design bloggers among their active participants.

2. Image Spark


Instead of bookmarking web pages that you find, you bookmark images (Pictures). Popular bookmarked pictures are displayed in a beautiful gallery-style so that site visitor can see them for visual inspiration on their own projects.

3. design:related


design:related is a community site that seeks to bring together designers from many disciplines. You can set up a portfolio on their site, share what’s inspiring you creatively, and submit news that members can vote on.

The site is a perfect spot for inspiration-seekers, and those looking to stay up to speed on important industry news in a single location.

4. DesignFloat


Established in 2007, DesignFloat is one of the first vote-to-promote social news-sharing sites dedicated specifically to designers.

The site has a broad range of categories for users to submit links to, including Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Industrial Design, as well as design-related topics like Photography. Each category has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in case you’re only interested in specific topics.

5. Graphic Design Links






Graphic Design Links is another destination for creatives looking for socially promoted info. To help users see the most popular topics being submitted to the site, they have a Tag Cloud page.

6. The Web Blend



The Web Blend only has about 1,500 members, making it a comparatively small community — but smaller isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

7. zaBox


zaBox covers a wide range of design industry news, resources, and tutorials. Like most social news sites, a story’s popularity is determined by the number of people voting for it.

8. FFFFOUND!




Visual bookmarking is a popular activity among designers. Collecting images for reference and inspiration later on can get you out of a creative funk in a jiffy.


9. Pixel Groovy





The amount of graphic design tutorials on the web is overwhelming. Pixel Groovy helps point you to ones that its community members like.

Inspired and Reference by Mashable

1 comment:

deVir said...

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