Medium “UX” tag statistics
How busy the UX tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 300 stories from the last 14.1 days
Busier than 10% of 73 tracked tags
35% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 21 stories a day, UX is busier than 10% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (144,196 followers per daily story) is higher than 97% of tags — more readers per story than average.
67% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 35% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 30% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish UX stories
| Publication | Followers | UX stories (last 14.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| UX Collective | 637K | 34 |
| Bootcamp | 115K | 26 |
| Muzli - Design Inspiration | 221K | 14 |
| UX Planet | 365K | 5 |
| Design Systems Collective | 6.3K | 4 |
| UX Collective 🇧🇷 | 36K | 3 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 2 |
| Product Coalition | 67K | 1 |
| A Word That Awakens You | 1 | 1 |
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 1 |
Top UX stories right now
- How apps know us better than we do and influence our decisions
- Nobody wants your AI app
- What the AI era owes you
- On M.F. Husain and multiple meanings of the colour orange
- Nobody feels heard by a report
- AI-generated UI is fast design, not UX
- I Tested 100+ GitHub Repos for Claude. These 7 Are the Best
- Building Your Own Skill for Claude Code? Here’s What You Need to Know
- AI Agents no Figma: o que muda na nossa forma de criar com inteligência artificial
- Are synthetic users (really) the future of UX research?
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the UX tag on Medium?
- About 21 per day (149 per week), based on 300 stories published in the 14.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 174,200 stories in total.
- Is the UX tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 10% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 144,196 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in UX?
- 35% 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.