Every few months someone asks for design accounts to follow on X. The replies are always the same twenty names with no context attached. A name on its own does not tell you whether that person's posts will actually teach you anything.
So this is a personal list, not a directory. These are 24 people whose posts I stop scrolling for. Some write code all day. Some run design teams. A few are still students. I did not split them into categories because the job title matters less than the work.
I keep the list short on purpose. Follow too many people and the timeline goes back to being noise. These are the accounts I open when I want to see how an interaction should feel, how a typeface sits on a screen, or how someone works through a hard interface problem. No ranking. All links go to X.
The List
What I Actually Learn From Them
I save fewer design bookmarks than I used to. Most of what sticks comes from watching someone iterate in public, not from a finished case study. A few things show up across this list.
The details you only notice when they are missing
Rauno posts focus states and keylines that most people would never think to share. Emil writes about motion in a way that makes you realize half the interfaces you use are animating too slowly. Paco releases small components and explains why the API is shaped the way it is. The interesting part is almost never the final screenshot. It is the decision behind it.
They design inside the browser
Most people here prototype in code. That does not mean they cannot use Figma. It means they find the real constraints early: line wrapping, focus rings, slow networks, and a button that has to work inside a modal inside a drawer on a phone. Once you have felt those constraints, your static mockups get better too.
The work is quiet
Gavin's icons, Rasmus's type, Jenny's product work. The confidence is in what is not there. Fewer gradients, fewer cards, fewer animations that exist to prove something. Restraint is harder to copy than a color palette.
How I Pick
Three questions. Do they post work in progress? Do they explain why? Do they keep shipping after the launch tweet? Follower count never comes into it. You can usually tell from ten posts whether someone is worth following. A hundred thousand followers will not hide bad work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should I follow first?
Start with whoever makes the kind of work you want to make. If you care about interface craft, begin with Rauno Freiberg, Paco Coursey, shadcn, Emil Kowalski, and Lochie Axon. If you lean product and visual design, begin with Jakub Antalík, Ryo Lu, Gavin Nelson, and Rasmus Andersson.
What is a design engineer?
Someone who does not really hand off. They can design the thing and build the thing, and they know where the two jobs fight each other.
How did you choose this list?
I went through the accounts I actually open, not the ones with the biggest numbers. Every person here has posted something that changed how I think about a small part of interface design.
Can I suggest a designer to add?
Yes. Send the handle to @devchauhann3 on X. I read all of them, even if I do not reply.
That is the list. If someone you rate is missing, send them over. I would rather keep finding people than pretend this list is complete.