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Designer News: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A designer community where submissions go to editors rather than to a feed, and every outbound link is nofollow.
designernews.co
Eligibility
Who Designer News accepts
You need
An account, which is an email and password sign-up
Something a designer would actually open, since editors choose what runs
You'll be rejected if
A product launch dressed as a link: the prompt asks for something ambitious designers should see
Design workDesign toolsArticles
What you actually get
A link in front of a designer audience if the editors pick it, and nothing at all if they do not. The links out carry rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener", with a separate sponsored rel on the paid slots, so this is an audience play rather than a link.
How to submit to Designer News
- Join firstSubmit and Sign in sit next to Join in the header, and the form belongs to an account.
- Send the linkTheir prompt is to send something ambitious designers should see, which is the editorial bar being stated up front.
- Wait to be chosenTheir own wording is that submissions go to the editors and the best ones make the edition, so a submission is a nomination rather than a post.
Designer News requirements
An account, created with an email and a password
A link worth an editor's attention
A comment on why it matters, which is what gets a link pickedoptional
Gotchas
Submitting is not posting. Their own copy says submissions go to the editors and only the best make the edition, so most links never appear and nothing tells you yours did not.
Sign-up is an email and a password with no social route, so this cannot be handed to an agent that does not type credentials.
The links are nofollow, and the only followed-looking slots on the page carry rel="sponsored", which is the paid inventory rather than the editorial feed.
Let your agent submit to Designer News
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Designer News playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 Designer News rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Designer News in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Designer News?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.
Designer News FAQ
How long does Designer News approval take?
Designer News does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Designer News?
Submitting to Designer News is free.
Does Designer News give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Designer News are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 69.
Does Designer News require a backlink to your site?
No, Designer News does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Designer News?
A product launch dressed as a link: the prompt asks for something ambitious designers should see.