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7 UI/UX Communities You Need To Join In 2021! 🎨

Designing is a complex process that can get confusing along the way.

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I remember the time when I was doing focused interviews with designers while coming up with the idea of building ruttl.com.

The most common feedback I usually got while talking to solo designers was -

The journey gets too lonely with no one to support and eventually people lose interest while designing new projects.

I get it. I have been through the same journey once.

But looking back at the process, I realize how important communities played a huge role in my journey!

When you have people supporting you and your idea, things become whole lot easier. That's why I thought of sharing with you guys the most important communities that helped me in my journey of UI/UX designing! 🎨

  1. Dribbble (This one's a no-brainer 🧠)
  2. Behance (Obviously! 🤷‍♂️)
  3. UX Mastery Community (A great source to find and learn new ideas)
  4. Designed dot org (A slack channel filled with designers)
  5. Designer Hangout (An invite-only community of 18,000 designers)
  6. Indie Hackers Design and UX Group (Congrats! You are right here!)
  7. The Interaction Design Foundation Community (It's paid but great!)

I hope that you guys find this list useful! If you haven't joined any community before, I would highly recommend you to do so as soon as possible!

Part of any other community or know something not mentioned above?
Share it with fellow designers in the comments down below! 👇

Have a great day guys!
Harsh 💯


P.S - For anyone interested in using my visual feedback tool ruttl - I have some good news!

I am currently handing out special access to the IH community only!

If you would like to use ruttl right away, simply go ahead, create an account on 👇

https://app.ruttl.com/signup

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    Hey Harsh,

    Love how active you are on IndieHackers but it seems that almost every post or comment you make contains a link to ruttl. This has made me despise your product already – despite never trying it out – because it starts to feel like spam and not like genuine contribution to a great community.

    I'd suggest to maybe turn down the marketing a bit and focus on contributing instead of promoting your product.

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      Hey @nikwen,
      Sorry to hear that you feel that way buddy! 😔

      I actually never felt that way about my activity on indiehackers. Every time I try to contribute via value-driven posts or commenting, I try to align with the context of the author through my experiences with ruttl.

      I apologize if you've got the despiteful feeling regarding my product. I'll try to work on it and improve further! 💯

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        Thanks, Harsh! Looking forward to that. 👍

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    Couldn't agree more. Communities will always play a big role when you're aiming for consistency.

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