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80/20 And Design Blogs

Last week I wrote about the 80/20 rule and the Design Blogosphere and although I think generally the rule is quickly disappearing, on an individual level it still exists. So I thought it would be nice to see what your top 20 design sites are for news, information, content or whatever. Actually lets just do 5 since 20 can get out of hand fast and most of them would be 9rules Members. Heck the top 5 might all be 9rules Members.

My list:

  1. 456 Berea Street. Roger is a machine.
  2. Stylegala. I don’t look for inspiration so the reviews serve me no purpose. It’s the portal news feature that I crave.
  3. Mark Boulton. Does any other individual pump out this many quality articles in a year? Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 5 is just the latest of this must read site.
  4. Design Observer. Very, very heavy with regards to design content, but it brings a professionalism to the craft that has been diluted by many in the blogosphere.
  5. Asterisk. Because he paid me to put his site here.

And to put into words my thoughts on this subject enter Cameron Moll.

Though the idea of a *personalized* 80/20 — from the perspective of the reader — is likely still relevant, regardless of my original list. I personally don’t have enough time in the day to stay current with hundreds of sites. I still look to a few dozen to keep me current on trends and news. And that was the original intent in penning the list.

Who are the top 20 today? I’m not positive a global list along those lines is even all that important now, but I’m certain each of us as readers still has our own 80/20 list…

Published by Scrivs on September 26, 2005 in Good Sites • Did you like it? Subscribe! Or Submit it to Blogosphere News!

11 people says things!

  1. Eww, I killed the design. Maintenance time.

    By Scrivs on September 26, 2005 11:02 am

  2. Oh no! I really wanted to see my comment in the nice sidebar! ;-)

    By Remi Prevost on September 26, 2005 2:10 pm

  3. heh.

    Stylegala (news)
    Whitespace
    Mike Davidson(I just like it over there)

    There are a lot more “design” sites that I use or even frequent but these are the three I use the most. I tried to come up with five but most of my others don’t update often enough to belong to the 20% group. Unless the 9rules homepage counts.

    By sunshine on September 26, 2005 4:21 pm

  4. 37 Signals
    Stylegala
    Design Observer
    Speak Up
    Kottke

    By Geoffrey on September 26, 2005 10:08 pm

  5. http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk
    http://www.mezzoblue.com/
    http://www.37signals.com/svn/
    http://www.456bereastreet.com/
    http://adactio.com/journal/

    By David on September 27, 2005 4:07 am

  6. I wish I could keep up with all the great design blogs out there, but since I can’t, I too have a short list of places I go to get the most information for my time.

    456 Berea Street Roger definitely is a machine, and he produces some amazing articles.
    kottke.org Jason may not focus as much on web design as others do, but I love keeping up with everything he has to write about.
    37 Signals, Signal vs Noise Great information available from the 37 Signals team.
    Andy Budd I love Andy’s site, as well as his Latest Links section.
    Waxy.org This is honestly the place I check the most during the day, and where I get more of my links from than anywhere else.

    By Patrick Haney on September 27, 2005 1:25 pm

  7. Should be intersting.
    StyleGala
    Del.icio.us’s JavaScript Tags (I don’t know why, but that’s actually a great place to find new techniques on the DOM)
    FiftyFourEleven.com’s Resources Section
    Digital Web
    And of course Sites that suck (It’s always important to know what’s not-so hot out there)

    By Dustin Diaz on September 27, 2005 11:40 pm

  8. I like stylegala, stuffandnonsense and anything British really. We have more wit!

    I’m trying to start up fadtastic - a multi author journal about web design trends and fads.

    http://fadtastic.aspiramedia.com/

    By Andrew Faulkner on September 28, 2005 7:29 am

  9. Made me think… Out of one hundred subscriptions on bloglines.com I think only this one I would put forward without any doubt:

    Creating Passionate Users.

    Second one is Signal vs. Noise.
    Asterisk used to be my favourite a couple of years ago, so did whatespace but quality (and effort that was put in, I guess) is no longer the same…
    Roger’s blog is still my favourite from webtech oriented blogs.

    By Rimantas on September 28, 2005 8:32 pm

  10. My top pics - and this is hard to keep it at just five so I will try and avoid repeating what others have submitted

    Design In Flight - http://designinflight.com/

    the nonist - http://thenonist.com/index.php?/weblog/

    RE. Design News Reluct.com http://www.reluct.com/home/index.html

    creativebits - http://creativebits.org/

    Jason Santa Maria http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/

    Wait, but there is more … several weeks back I ran across a blog that said ‘where are all the blogging designers?’

    So I created http://www.designers-who-blog.com

    Along the way I acquired a new (and time consuming) habit - reading blogs of designers with something to useful to say

    cat

    By cat on September 29, 2005 11:57 pm

  11. http://screenspire.com

    By robertson on October 7, 2005 2:48 pm

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