Subscribe to these YouTube channels for inspiration, tutorials, or just to get a little creative break from your workday.

1. femke

Creator: Femke von Schoonhoven

Subject: UX, research, and product design

Suggested video: How I got a design job at Uber

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.

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2. Hello, I’m Alexa

Subject: UX and product design

Suggested video: A day in the life of a UX designer in San Francisco (but forreal)

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 how to create a UX design portfolio to interesting talks with other designers like this one with a design systems designer for DoorDash. Highly recommended for those looking to get a start in UX and product design.

3. Satori Graphics

Creator: Tom Cargill

Subject: Freelancing advice and speed art

Suggested video: 3 mistakes I made as a young designer

Tom Cargill brings a great mix of no-nonsense tutorials on topics such as workflow tips and poster design, and even career and personal development videos such as breakdowns of a good design contract and the mentality you need to be a successful designer. It’s a great channel for any young, early-career designers looking to learn more about the industry.

4. Zimri Mayfield

Creator: Zimri Mayfield

Subject: Design inspiration and memes

Suggested video: How to design 1 logo in 3 unique styles

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 this one where he redesigns user submitted logos.

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.

5. Sketch Together

Creator: Pablo Stanley

Subject: Design tutorials

Suggested video: Late night design: Design leadership

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 Humaaans and Buttss (no, we’re not kidding), give insight into both his design process and how he comes up with his wild ideas.

6. Google Design

Creator: Google

Subject: Material design and Google design principles

Suggested video: Making material design

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

 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 Golden Krishna to speak about developments in the design world.