19 Design communities on Independent Platforms
Updated 6/9/2026
UX/UI Hub
Your one-stop hub for resources, networking, and industry events! Discover curated resources from industry leaders who have shaped the design landscape. Gain access to exclusive materials, networking opportunities, and industry events designed to inspire and elevate your design journey. Showcase your portfolio and explore junior UX/UI positions, the app connects you to job boards curated specifically for designers, featuring handpicked open roles.4K members
ForumPairingEventsNewsletterJobsCourses14 views / month
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Designer News
Where the design community meets. Designer News is a large, global community of people working or interested in design and technologyForumPerksJobs13 views / month
The Designership
Free libraries for icons, fonts, 3D illustrations, UI kits, and more. The Designship also has its own Figma & Design Masterclass and Figma Design System. The community is available to customers that purchase a figma kit.1K members
ChatPerksNewsletterPaidCourses5 views / month
Vistoya
Platform for Fashion designers and brands. Showcase your work. Get inspired by top professionals in the field. Find new promising creators120K members
ForumApplyPaid6 views / month
UX Mastery
A place to seek & share UX advice.5K members
Forum3 views / month
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Earthboard
Earthboard is a global collaborative art platform where artists claim territories on an interactive world map and create drawings that evolve together. All artwork expires in 24 hours unless extended by community appreciation, ensuring fresh voices always have opportunities. The platform is 100% human-only with no AI-generated content allowed.Forum4 views / month
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DeviantArt Community
DeviantArt is a massive online community for artists and art enthusiasts to share, critique, and promote artistic creations across various disciplines.Forum3 views / month
Dribbble
Tens of millions of people look for design inspiration and feedback on Dribbble. We help players like you share small screenshots (shots) to show off your current projects, boost your portfolio, and love what you do—no matter what kind of creative professional you are.ChatEventsJobsCourses2 views / month
DesignerUp
The community where mindful UX/UI and product designers come to grow, share and connect. Have meaningful conversations with other intentional and mindful designers working to integrate their authentic selves into their work and make better products for others.ChatEventsPaidCourses
Box Box Club
Founded by a group of passionate Formula One fans based in India, our app is a fusion of our love for racing, design, and technology. With our partnership with Juan Manuel Correa, a Formula 2 driver, we bring you an even more thrilling motorsports experience. But Box Box is more than just an app - it's a community of motorsports enthusiasts coming together to celebrate their shared passion! This community offers a Discord server for chatting among members.4K members
ChatEventsNewsletterPaid6 views / month
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Bay Area Black Designers
BABD exists to provide meaningful community to Black design professionals who want to support each other’s growth and development. We provide this via exclusive access to intimate groups called Squads which are the core BABD experience. Squads are intimate groups of 4-5 members representing a range of experience and design roles. Squad members share their goals, challenges, and intentions, and they commit to helping each other thrive. It’s not about networking and hustle — it’s about growth that unfolds in balanced and focused ways, and creating true friendships within reciprocal community. Each Squad is together for one quarter (three months) and they meet twice-monthly.ApplyPairingEvents3 views / month
Layover.cc
Layover is communtiy for designers to connect with fellow designers, share your projects, and find design inspirations and job opportunities. Your creative journey starts here.200 members
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Women Who Design
Women Who Design is a Twitter directory of accomplished women in the design industry. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to follow on Twitter by parsing Twitter bios for popular keywords.654 members
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Native Talent in Tech
Native Talent in Tech is a collection of Indigenous technologists across various skills and experiences. The project’s goal is to highlight their work and elevate their voices by parsing Twitter bios for popular keywords. With more representation, we hope that it can also help companies discover the next generation of Natives talent.61 members
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Spaniards Who Design
Spaniards who design is a place to showcase the work of talented Spaniards designers to the world. The goal is to inspire new designers to diversify their references, experienced designers to diversity their network, and companies to diversify their teams.Tools![Community Placeholder]()
Italians Who Design
Italians Who Design is a repository where the most talented Italian designers are gathered. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to ispire you, increase your network and (why not?) to work with. Design Firms,our project's branch, aims to select all the business excellence that is involved in the world of UX, both agencies and in house teams.377 members
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Portuguese Who Design
Portuguese Who Design is a place to showcase Portuguese creative talent to inspire new designers and foster inclusivity through a diverse network of contacts for professionals and companies alike. We celebrate creativity and the people whose work elevates the Portuguese design worldwide.Tools![Community Placeholder]()
Brazilians Who Design
Brazilians who design is a place to showcase the work of talented Brazilian designers to the world. The goal is to inspire new designers to diversify their references, experienced designers to diversity their network, and companies to diversify their teams.Tools![Community Placeholder]()
Behance Community
Behance is a leading online platform for creative professionals to showcase their portfolios, discover new work, and connect with the global creative community.Forum2 views / month
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Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (<20 members)
- Small: 1 communities (20-100 members)
- Medium: 3 communities (100-1,000 members)
- Large: 4 communities (1,000-10,000 members)
- Huge: 0 communities (10,000-100,000 members)
- Massive: 1 communities (100,000-1M members)
- Gigantic: 0 communities (1M+ members)