A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/UXDesign: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This is a community for people working in UX. The description says it exists to discuss research and design problems, career advancement, and the profession. The people posting here are practitioners, from folks trying to break into the field to experienced designers with years of full-time work behind them. The rules make it clear the sub has a broad definition of UX, so topics like UI design, UX strategy, user research, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, accessibility, and systems design are all welcome, along with posts about career growth and working with other people. What does not belong here is anything about your personal job search, portfolio feedback, or resume, because those get redirected into two weekly stickied threads, one for entry-level people and one for experienced practitioners. Post flair is required and user flair is recommended.
The rule that decides everything for a marketer is “Promoting your product, service, tool, or anything for sale is not allowed”, which bans marketing and self promotion of products, services, apps, tools, articles, newsletters, videos, podcasts, training, events, and anything requiring a fee, membership, registration, subscription, or disclosing personal information. “User Recruitment (including for surveys, polls, testers) is not allowed” kills any plan to run a survey, poll, or usability test through the sub, and it bans questions designed to solicit early-stage product feedback too. “Job postings, job searches, and requests for free work are not allowed” rules out hiring posts, collaboration requests, and availability posts. “Questions about your individual job search go in the weekly stickied thread” and “Your portfolio and resume are part of your job search and also belong in the stickied thread” push all job and portfolio content into the weekly threads. “If you're asking for help, ask good questions and provide enough context” sets the bar for any question post, and “Search before you post” removes questions that have been answered many times before. “Keep it on topic and professional” defines what counts as on topic, and “Please be human” bans low effort, AI-generated slop. On top of all that, post flair is required.
A good post here is a real problem, a real lesson, or a real question from your work as a practitioner. The community description says the sub is for discussing research and design problems, career advancement, and the profession, and rule “Keep it on topic and professional” confirms that anything a person working in UX does at their job is fair game, including UI design, user research, information architecture, prototyping, accessibility, and systems design. If you are asking for help, rule “If you're asking for help, ask good questions and provide enough context” tells you exactly what to include: the problem you are working on, the research you have done, the approaches you considered, and what has not worked. For a founder doing respectful marketing, the winning shape is to share something you learned building your product or running your design process, told as a practitioner story with no link, no signup, and no pitch. Add the required post flair, consider user flair, and be ready to answer follow up questions in the comments as a peer, not a vendor.
The fastest way to get removed is self promotion. Rule “Promoting your product, service, tool, or anything for sale is not allowed” bans marketing of products, apps, tools, articles, newsletters, videos, podcasts, training, events, and anything requiring a fee, membership, registration, subscription, or disclosing personal information. Rule “User Recruitment (including for surveys, polls, testers) is not allowed” bans surveys, external polls, early stage product feedback requests, usability test recruiting, and beta tester recruiting, and the rules note that automod deletes survey posts automatically. Rule “Job postings, job searches, and requests for free work are not allowed” bans hiring posts, collaboration requests, and availability posts. Rule “Questions about your individual job search go in the weekly stickied thread” and rule “Your portfolio and resume are part of your job search and also belong in the stickied thread” mean any personal job question or portfolio feedback request gets redirected unless you post it in the weekly thread. Rule “Search before you post” removes questions that have been answered many times before. Rule “Please be human” bans low effort, AI generated slop, so do not paste generated content. Rule “Inviting sub members to join a group, attend an event, or meet one-on-one is not allowed” bans invites to groups, events, or one on one meetups. Finally, post flair is required, so an unflaired post is at risk.
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No. Rule “Promoting your product, service, tool, or anything for sale is not allowed” bans marketing and self promotion of products, services, apps, tools, articles, and anything requiring a fee, membership, registration, or subscription, in posts or comments.
No. Rule “User Recruitment (including for surveys, polls, testers) is not allowed” bans surveys, external polls, usability test recruiting, beta testers, and questions designed to solicit early-stage product feedback. Automod deletes survey posts.
Only in the weekly stickied threads. Rule “Your portfolio and resume are part of your job search and also belong in the stickied thread” sends all portfolio, case study, and resume feedback to the weekly thread for your experience level.
No. Rule “Job postings, job searches, and requests for free work are not allowed” bans job postings, collaboration requests, and availability posts, and points people to other subreddits for that.
No. Rule “Inviting sub members to join a group, attend an event, or meet one-on-one is not allowed” bans invites to groups, events, and individual meetups, online or in person.
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