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**Creator: **Femke von Schoonhoven
**Subject: **UX, research, and product design
Femke von Schoonhoven is a full-time product designer at Uber who launched her YouTube channel early 2019. Her channel hosts a variety of different videos on UX and product design as well as a look into her own career trajectory. Subscribe if you’re interested in seeing an in-depth look into the life of a UX designer.
**Subject: **UX and product design
Creator: Tom Cargill
**Subject: **Freelancing advice and speed art
**Creator: **Zimri Mayfield
**Subject: **Design inspiration and memes
He’s a frenetic YouTuber more akin to the likes of PewDiePie than what you’d expect from a design tutorial channel—and that’s exactly what makes him great.
**Creator: **Pablo Stanley
**Subject: **Design tutorials
**Creator: **Google
**Subject: **Material design and Google design principles
Interested in the design systems and values that drive one of the most successful companies in the world? Google Design is the search engine platform’s YouTube channel dedicated to exactly that
**Creator: **Mike Locke
**Subject: **UX design and career advice
**Creator: **Will Paterson
**Subject: **Logo design, calligraphy, and freelancing advice
**Creator: **EJ Hassenfratz
**Subject: **Cinema 4D tutorials, 3D modeling, and motion graphic design
EJ Hassenfratz is a Denver-based motion designer drawing upon more than a decade of experience working with Cinema 4D and creating stunning motion graphic designs.
**Creator: **Chris Do
**Subject: **Design career advice
**Creator: **Ran Segall
**Subject: **Vlog, design tutorials, and freelance/business advice
**Creator: **Charli Prangley
**Subject: **Vlog, design tutorials, and freelancing advice
**Creator: **Vox
**Subject: **Explainers on culture, politics, art, music, design, and pretty much everything else.
Vox is famous for its video explainers and articles breaking down complicated news in a digestible way. While any one of their videos can be a great font of inspiration, designers will love their “By Design” series where they take a look at “the intersection of design and technology.” It’s a fantastic resource for design history and a deep look at why certain designs are the way they are.
**Creator: **TED
**Subject: **Lectures from leading thinkers and innovators
**Creator: **Jesse Showalter
**Subject: **Design and code, design thinking, and the business of design
**Creator: **InVision
**Subject: **InVision tutorials and interviews with professional creatives
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Alexa Herasimchuk is a Bay Area-based product designer who created this small but fantastic channel to help viewers learn more about the product design industry. She covers everything from career topics like to interesting talks with other designers like this one with a . Highly recommended for those looking to get a start in UX and product design.
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Tom Cargill brings a great mix of no-nonsense tutorials on topics such as and , and even career and personal development videos such as and the . It’s a great channel for any young, early-career designers looking to learn more about the industry.
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Zimri’s irreverent personality injects a lot of humor into each of his videos making them very entertaining. Along with a host of design tutorials, he also frequently engages with his audience in video challenges like .
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Pablo’s channel mixes design tutorials (well, it’s mostly design tutorials) with interviews with design leaders and live design sessions. Pablo’s walkthroughs of his own successful projects, like and (no, we’re not kidding), give insight into both his design process and how he comes up with his wild ideas.
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Along with providing insights into their design processes, Google Design also uploads videos of their in-house speaker series, where they invite design innovators such as to speak about developments in the design world.
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Product designer and educator Mike Locke teaches his viewers the principles behind UX design. Though the topic can be pretty confusing to even the most seasoned designer, Mike breaks it down in an easy-to-digest way. He also offers an for anyone who wants to get a handle on UI/UX concepts.
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Will Paterson created his YouTube channel in 2012 and has since become one of the platform’s biggest names in graphic design. His channel offers great and informative videos on everything from to .
Will’s not afraid to inject his personality into each video and teaching skills that you may never have even thought existed—like .
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His videos help you get started using motion graphic software. If you’re interested in learning even more about motion graphic design, EJ collaborated with the School of Motion to offer a course on .
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Founded by Emmy-winning director Chris Do, the Futur dedicates itself to teaching creatives how to be successful entrepreneurs. Along with lessons such as and , The Futur also gives great lessons on design concepts like and .
For those interested in diving even deeper, their website also has a to help you jump start your design career.
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Ran Segall is a designer and startup founder who created a channel to share their design work, freelance stories, and work process. He uploads a video every day of the week (!) for his 88k subscribers and they’re rarely longer than thirty minutes—though he’s also known for teaming up with other designers for and .
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Charli Prangley is a digital nomad, entrepreneur, and designer for ConvertKit — not to mention the creator of one of the most popular design channels on YouTube. Her videos cover the gamut of design topics such as , , and .
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TED Talks gives viewers a look into the thoughts of some of the foremost innovators and thought leaders in the world. They also have a host of great talks on design—more than 300 of them in fact. If you don’t have time to watch all 300, be sure to read .
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Jesse Showalter’s channel gives his 10K+ subscribers a look into his life as a full-time full-stack designer balancing freelance, family, and surfing. His product reviews, looks into his personal creative process, and design 101 explanations (see: ) give a full look into a designer’s life.
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You didn’t think we’d go the entire list and not shout out our channel did you? That’d be crazy—especially since our channel contains great videos breaking down exactly how to use the InVision app for your design process. Along with helpful tutorials on InVision Studio and Sketch, you’ll also get great interviews with leading designers in our videos and our .
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