How to get your startup into UX Design Weekly
TL;DR
UX Design Weekly is a free email newsletter curated by Kenny Chen and sent every Monday to about 39,800 subscribers interested in UX design. You can suggest a link for free through the contact form, and a sponsored link costs $500 per issue, with discounts for bootstrapped companies. It suits design tools, research tools and startups with a strong design story.
What is UX Design Weekly?
UX Design Weekly is a hand-picked list of the best UX design links of the week for product designers and anyone who designs digital products. Kenny Chen picks every link. Each issue has four parts: Articles, Tools and Resources, a UX Portfolio pick and a closing link under Last But Not Least. Issues go out on Mondays and stay in a public archive on the site.
The newsletter is active: issue 611 went out on 26 October 2026, and the homepage counted 39,796 subscribers that week. The sponsor page uses a rounder figure, "35,000+ subscribers".
The domain authority of 39 belongs to uxdesignweekly.com. The real gain from a mention is clicks from designers and a permanent link in the archived issue.
Who should submit to UX Design Weekly?
- Startups that sell to designers: prototyping, design system, usability testing, research and accessibility tools.
- Founders who publish useful design content, e.g. a case study of a redesign with numbers, or a free UI kit.
- Design agencies and studios with a strong article or open resource.
- Skip it if your product has nothing to do with design: the readers are designers, and a plain product pitch has little chance as a free link.
- Skip the paid slot if your budget is under $500 and you have no design audience to test with.
How much does UX Design Weekly cost?
Reading the newsletter and suggesting a link cost nothing. The sponsor page, checked in October 2026, lists:
- Sponsored link: $500 per issue. Your link appears under the Articles section, with your logo or image at the end of the newsletter.
- The sponsorship also gets a week on the site's front page and a permanent link in the archived issue.
- Discounts for sponsoring several issues, and for bootstrapped or independent companies. Ask through the contact page.
How do you share your startup on UX Design Weekly?
- Read a few recent issues on uxdesignweekly.com to see what kind of links Kenny picks.
- Prepare one link that fits a section: an article for Articles, a tool or free resource for Tools and Resources, or a designer's portfolio for UX Portfolio.
- Send it through the contact form, which invites readers who have "an interesting link to share". Add one sentence on why designers will care.
- For a guaranteed slot, open the sponsor page, click through to checkout, or write first through the contact page to ask for a startup discount.
Tips to get more out of UX Design Weekly
- Pitch content before product: a case study, template or research summary fits a curated link list better than a homepage.
- Give the link a clear, specific title, e.g. "What 40 usability tests taught us about checkout forms".
- If you sponsor, send the readers to a free trial, a template or a demo built for designers.
- Ask for the bootstrapped discount when you book: the sponsor page offers it.
- Track clicks with a UTM tag so you know what the $500 brought in.
Our verdict
UX Design Weekly is a live, steady newsletter with a large design audience and a clear price. A free link suggestion is worth sending for any design-related tool or article. Pay for the $500 slot only when your product sells to designers.
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