piXel mind

If there were any doubt in my mind that the blog-o-sphere does not represent even the tip of the iceberg of our collective wisdom, those doubts were laid to rest when I recently saw this list of top 35 UX blogs. I decided to look at the contents of the list suspecting that I would see a lot of web design resources and possibly not much more. Well, the list has a few sites with blogs about a variety of topics, but for the most part we either have personal musings (such as this blog), blogs related to a technology, blogs that re-post other blogs.. you get the picture. Some other conclusions I came away with:

• We (UX bloggers)  probably don’t pay much attention to SEO
• We blog in generalities. We talk a lot more in our blogs about the meta aspects of our work and not the details of our work itself. We are for instance 82% more likely to talk about aspects of a well organized design review, than we are likely to say “I designed some navigation tabs today”. [OK, I made up the  82%, put it down to @lukew envy]
• Large swaths of work areas such as designing enterprise applications or even desktop applications go un represented
• When we do talk about some specific designs, we are talking about the “Topic of the Day” – a popular feature, a new application. We are adding to the Buzz.

In short, our blogs are not the sum total of our wisdom, they are more of a side outlet for our creativity and or steam. There are about 15 blogs that stand out as being exceptions because of the nature of their content. And they need to pay attention to Search Engine Optimization.