Medium “Design” tag statistics
How busy the Design tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 660 stories from the last 14.1 days
Busier than 27% of 73 tracked tags
36% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 47 stories a day, Design is busier than 27% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (166,788 followers per daily story) is higher than 99% of tags — more readers per story than average.
67% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 36% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 30% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Design stories
| Publication | Followers | Design stories (last 14.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| Bootcamp | 115K | 40 |
| UX Collective | 637K | 20 |
| Muzli - Design Inspiration | 221K | 16 |
| UX Planet | 365K | 9 |
| Design Nexus | 975 | 5 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 4 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 3 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 3 |
| KAIRI | 854 | 3 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 3 |
Top Design stories right now
- I Spent 30 Days Trying to Design Without Photoshop. Here’s What Happened.
- Nobody wants your AI app
- What the AI era owes you
- Fitts’s Law: Why Your Thumb Hates That Tiny Close Button
- Hick’s Law: Why Netflix Never Shows You Everything
- Super intelligence rots your brain
- On M.F. Husain and multiple meanings of the colour orange
- How Do YOU Decide If an Image is “Good?”
- The presence of absence
- I Tested 100+ GitHub Repos for Claude. These 7 Are the Best
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Design tag on Medium?
- About 47 per day (328 per week), based on 660 stories published in the 14.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 293,108 stories in total.
- Is the Design tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 27% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 166,788 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Design?
- 36% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 67% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.