Web Design Bloggers
mashable.com
mashable.com
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Going through some of the work it nicely shows the current trend to grab your attention with obnoxiously in-your-face typography instead of flashy animations or ads. While these people are good, I would much rather be reading the blogs of more progressive designers such as http://www.onebitwonder.com/
The article nicely pointed out some of the possible reasons for designers having a blog, oddly enough they didn't mention the simple "to share".
Sorry, I hang around SEOs too much.
I tried to include a mix of people with rather large followings and people that might, as you noted, be on the cusp. I only picked people who I personally thought did really interesting work, though.
And that's the distinction here isn't it. If it were titled, 'top web designers' then you would have more to choose from.
One who does come to mind however is http://lorelle.wordpress.com/ been following her blog for a few years now.
:)
But I'm more inclined to write posts that treat tech as a meritocracy. I don't do affirmative action.
Two questions:
a) Am I wrong? b) Are there any first-rate women web design bloggers? How about people of color?
The absolute top people in almost every every field are male, just as the absolute bottom people are also male, that's just the way the world works.
If you wrote an article about the top 10 fastest humans on the planet, you would likely also get complaints that there are no females, white people, etc in the list. Admittedly, this is more easily measurable, but consistent lack of success, by any way you measure it, should be at least somewhat compelling in other, less quantitative fields.