Ask HN: Sites like HN for designers

7 points·anujkk··8 comments

Like HN is the best community for hackers, which sites are there for designer community, where the designers showcase their work and discuss about design related topics?

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DesignFloat (http://www.designfloat.com/) is gaining in popularity.

Also there's DocType (http://doctype.com/) which is a Stack Exchange style site for designers.

The Web Design subreddit gets some activity too (http://www.reddit.com/r/webdesign).

DocType is the most useful for me; DesignFloat tends to be pretty random/useless sometimes since it's an aggregator and the links it has don't always directly pertain to design.

Thanks for these links. I really liked doctype.com.

This doesn't directly answer your question, but I wish more design related topics would show up on Hacker News — benefits hackers who are looking to learn more about design, and it's a really good startup related topic anyways.

http://www.drawar.com is pretty nice albeit somewhat inactive.

http://forrst.com is invite-only and caters to both designers and developers, but it fits the bill.

If you're looking for places to share your work and get feedback, then http://dribbble.com and http://forrst.com are your best bet, although both are currently invite only.

If you're looking for more of a link dump type thing, then http://www.designfloat.com and http://www.uberlook.com (my site) might have what you need.

http://forlue.com/ - a clone of HN for design speak.

The closest analogue I can think of is Undrln: http://www.undrln.com but it doesn't get anywhere near as much traffic as it did a couple of years ago, unfortunately.

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