50 Web Designers and Developers to Follow on Twitter
If your looking for some web designers and developers to follow on twitter, then your in the right place as this list contains 50 web designers and developers who are worth following. You’ll find that each one has a lot to offer and a unique perspective on their craft.
Gary Thomas – (9swords) he tweets cool stuff for web designers.
Aaron Irizarry – (aaroni268) is a User Experience Designer for Harte-Hanks/PennySaver.
Angie Bowen – (angbowen) is a web designer/developer from Colorado.
Adam Smith – (atsmith) is the president and creative director of Advent Creative.
Andrew Wilkinson – (awilkinson) runs the interface design agency MetaLab.
Barry Madden – (BarryMadden) is a freelance web/GUI/graphic designer.
Brian Gardner – (bgardner) is the founder and CEO of StudioPress.
Brian K. McDaniel – (bkmacdaddy) is a web and graphic designer from San Francisco.
Paul Boag – (boagworld) founded web design agency Headscape and runs boagworld.
Brad Colbow – (bradcolbow) is a freelance web designer who also creates a weekly comic strip.
Brian Cray – (briancray) is a Colombus based web entrepreneur and consultant.
Rachael Furn – (calmbanana) is a web developer based in Northants, UK.
Chetan R – (cheth) is an indian based web/graphic designer.
Chris Spooner – (chrisspooner) is a blogger based in Sheffield, UK.
Liz Andrade – (cmdshiftdesign) is a web/graphic designer and a regular blogger.
Collis – (collis) is CEO/Co-Founder of Envato.
Walter Apai – (DesignerDepot) is a web designer who runs Web Designer Depot.
Emma Taylor – (emtaylor) is a freelance web designer based in Cyprus.
Hannah – (ErisDS) is PHP developer based in Northampton, UK.
Mike Rundle – (flyosity) is software developer based in Raleigh.
Glenn Hilton – (glennhilton) is a web designer/developer based in Vancouver.
Gopal Raju – (gopalraju) is an indian based web designer/developer and blogger.
Grace Smith – (gracesmith) is a freelance web designer/developer who also runs thefreelancefeed.com.
Janko Jovanovic – (jankowarpspeed) is a UI designer, software engineer, blogger, speaker and artist.
Dainis Graveris – (1stwebdesigner) is a web designer who runs www.1stwebdesigner.com.
Jason Walz – (jasonwalz) is Milwaukee based web designer.
Jeff Croft – (jcroft) is a Seattle based web designer/developer who has also authored books.
John O’Nolan – (JohnONolan) is a UK based web designer who regularly blogs on many different sites.
Jon Phillips – (jophillips) is a web designer who runs Sprye Studios.
Liam McKay – (liammckay) is a UK based web designer who is currently working on WPBundle.
Mark Jardine – (markjardine) is a San Jose based who designer who works for Tapbots.
Marko Prljic – (markoprljic) is a croatian based web designer who founded Twinkle Tap.
Meagan Fisher – (meaganfisher) is a Salem based web designer who works at SimpleBits.
Mike Lane – (mlane) is a Minneapolis based UX designer.
Ronald Bien – (naldzgraphics) is a Philippines based graphic designer and also founder of Naldz Graphics.
Nishan Joomun – (nishanjoomun) is a Montreal based web designer.
nourayehia – (nourayehia) is web designer who also founded Noupe and Bundle Hunt
David Perel – (obox) is a South Africa based web designer and co-founder of Obox.
Amélie Husson – (othella) is a web designer from France but currently based in Germany.
http://www.twitter.com/paddydonnelly is an Irish web designer currently based in Belgium.
Rob Hawkes – (robhawkes) is a UK based web developer.
Rogie – (rogieking) is a Montant based web designer and founder of Komodomedia.
Veronica Domeier – (ronicadesign) is a San Antonio based freelance web designer.
Sarah Parmenter – (sazzy) is a UK based web designer and founder of You Know Who.
Thomas Ulbricht – (sharebrain) is a web deigner based in Germany, he also founded Sharebrain.
Jacob Gube – (sixrevisions) is a web developer/designer, he also founded Six Revisions and co-founded Design Instruct.
Luca Soffici – (Soffici) is an Italy based web & graphic designer.
Tom Kenny – (tkenny) is a UK based web designer/developer and he founded Inspect Element.
Tony Chester – (tonychester) is a web designer from Cary and owner of OnWired.
Umut Muhaddisoglu – (umutm) is a web developer and blogger from Turkey.
This list was just a small section of the web design community there are 100′s if not 1000′s of more designers worth following so feel free to leave a comment with a link to your link twitter profile if you think your worth following!
About the Author
Thomas Hardy is a freelance web designer from Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), here is his portfolio. He founded Design-Heaven and Work-Killer, where he regularly blogs. You will also find him on Twitter and Facebook.
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43 comments
gillico
August 17, 2010why is walter apai on this list? he has never designed anything for the web in his life.
Rachel
August 17, 2010Firstly, hello…he has built and converted @WebDesignerDepot into one of THE most popular and well respected design blogs around.
Jason
August 17, 2010Oh look, it’s one of THESE lists again.
The last one of these I saw, I used it for an experiment. I made sure I was following the top 20, then over 10 days I looked at the kind of stuff they were tweeting, and if it was of any use and relevence (to web design/development).
And what a surprise, most of them tweeted utter bollocks.
Here’s my list of 5 (from your list of 50):
@sixrevisions, @sazzy, @chrisspooner, @paddydonnelly, @boagworld.
Vlado
August 30, 2010Agree with Jason. A lot on the list tweet merely personal things (going to make groceries, soon client meeting, highscore on game Bla and so on). Nice, but hardly useful.
In my very humble opinion designers worth being followed:
@netdivermag
Mix between links and personal
@ericsteuten
Only tweets bout design, art, photography etc.
gillico
August 17, 2010Rachel- Walter Apai has never designed anything- he bought the url and spammed his way into recognition. He hires writers and knows nothing about web design himself. This is a paid placement like every other reference to him on the web.
Mariusz
August 17, 2010This list is totally incomplete – missing many important people like Ryan Carson (owner of @Carsonified), Soh Tanaka (@sohtanaka), Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) of Dribbble & SimpleBits, Molly Horzschlag (@mollydotcom), Jina Bolton (@jina) etc. and has lots of spam-filled twitterfeed people in it too.
Gary
August 17, 2010Dainis from 1stWebdesigner.com??
Come on..he is just a blogger,even he is not writing anything in his blog
You add many ”only” design blog owners not designers
Being a web designer means something different
Waheed Akhtar
August 17, 2010Nice list to follow!
Liam Hammett
August 17, 2010Thanks for this amazing list WDL, and Mariusz. Ofcourse the list isn’t complete, nearly everyone has a Twitter account nowadays, and there are way more than 50 web designers on Twitter definitely… As said in the last paragraph ^_^
Once again, great list! I enjoy reading what these sort of people post
Mark James
August 17, 2010Great list, there are a few guys there that I hadn’t found on Twitter before. Makes a refreshing change to see some new faces!
Kate
August 17, 2010What’s up with the lack of content on Web Designer Depot for the last couple of days, not to mention quality? I see typos all over this article. Copy edit! I want meaningful articles, not halfhearted lists where the only text is straight off the website being featured.
gillico
August 17, 2010People have figured out Walter Apai is a fraud and don’t want to write for his sites anymore…
9swords
August 17, 2010Cool list, thanks for adding me.
hellrider
August 17, 2010@the_hell_rider a devigner since 1982 and an anti political power metal drummer c”,
Marcell Purham | Webdevtuts
August 17, 2010Great list of GREAT designers!
Aaron Irizarry
August 17, 2010Wow… thanks for the include on this list. I am humbled to be include with such awesome people.
Thank God this list is alphabetical cause I certainly dont deserve to be near the top.
Thanks again!
~ Aaron I
Lucas Cobb Design
August 17, 2010Designer / Web Developer from Charleston, SC.
@lucascobbdesign
http://twitter.com/lucascobbdesign
Some great people to follow on this list.
Aaron Irizarry
August 17, 2010Oh and Also I think that Josh Hemsley @JoshHemsley has to be on this list… he owns!
celia
August 17, 2010you missed mattbrett.com (@mattbrett)
Barry Madden
August 17, 2010✎…Thanks for the addy i found this list really useful
Print or prepress designers may also want to follow @MelindaKiba
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@BarryMadden
Umut Muhaddisoglu
August 17, 2010It really helps to follow people in the field to learn and get better.
And thanks so much for including mine.
Marta Spendowska
August 18, 2010Just followed 5;)HELLO!
Thanks!
Andrew Cooper
August 18, 2010Well I follow a few of these already because they generally tweet pretty amusing stuff, but not much on the design front! I Tweet about total crap but just for the sake of potentially gaining a few more followers I’m http://www.twitter.com/apcooperweb
As for a suggestion for a designer who is worth following on Twitter, you want Alexander Dawson – http://www.twitter.com/AlexDawsonUK
GraphicsFuel
August 18, 2010Just a great handy list of designers / developers to follow on twitter. Thanks for sharing.
TutorialFeed
August 18, 2010Nice list. I have already following but some are new and I followed them. I want share similar post which I had written some time back: 45 Favorite Designers and Developers you must follow on Twitter
Thanks!!!
Web Design Lebanon
August 18, 2010there is also @cleartag
Chris Lamb
August 18, 2010The list is missing @chriscoyier from CSS-Tricks.
Liz
August 18, 2010thanks for including me! It mustve been tough to narrow it down to 50, there are so many great community members on Twitter.. so that fact that I made the cute is shocking and flattering.
Any of ya’ll reading this looking for more “honorable mentions” id suggest @nikibrown and @joshuamauldin and @designcoyote.
Eric Novak
August 18, 2010You, Your, You’re – and I’m not worth following yet.
matt
August 19, 2010I have to agree w/ a number of the replies here…this list is sorta lacking. And there are some questionable folks included who likely won’t be providing much more than links to their own ad-driven blogs. Some of my suggestions would include: Jesse Bennett Chamberlain (@jessebc), Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll), Jason Fried (@jasonfried), etc. etc.
Sherry
August 19, 2010I love how some of these people have websites with splash pages saying they’re “rebranding” and they’ll be “back in xxx of 2009!”. I don’t care how busy you are, if you can’t keep your own website up to date I don’t consider YOU up to date either.
There are literally thousands of great designers out there but narrowing it down to a popularity contest like this usually does rub people the wrong way – unless of course they’re on the special list.
Scott Prock
August 24, 2010I myself like the list … they don’t really have to be designers per se, I look for people who are also interested in web design, not just designers.
Thanks for the list, and I plan to follow those in the comments as well.
… Scott ( http://twitter.com/ScottProck )
Craig
August 25, 2010Twitter & Social networking is great, Thanks for the list
Matthew James
August 28, 2010A huge number of Twitter profiles here are not even worth following. I suggest you guys check out @thelimedesign on twitter. He does not have a design blog but his designing skills are stupendous.
inspirationfeed
September 1, 2010A decent list….
Enk.
September 2, 2010Add me in the list lol..
Yeah, I’m a Web Designer!
Lisa Thomason
September 9, 2010Great list! Worth following!
Amanda Smit
September 14, 2010Really helpful list of Twitter profiles, Thank you for sharing!
Jeff
September 19, 2010Great list of Web designers and Developers to follow on Twitter, Looking forward to their Tweets, Cheers!
Ayo
November 2, 2010its is certain a lot of people will be left out. It is possible some might not deserve the spot… but they must have done something to be here. So people, lets give it up for them.
Lovely post.
Fort Collins
November 3, 2010Great list. I followed them all. I am sure there are thousands of other designers that should be on the list but, great start.
William
November 4, 2010This list needs Brian Hoff.
Vectrik web design Leeds
October 12, 2011Thanks for the resources. As a web designer, I will follow all.