Design Lovers
Documentary style video essays for a high value design audience


Design | Product | Story Telling
Design Lovers helps audiences understand the hidden thinking behind the digital products, interfaces, and devices they use every day. Each video starts with a specific design detail, like a button, blur effect, corner radius, sound, or navigation pattern, then unpacks the constraints and principles behind it. The channel blends product design, psychology, technology, and storytelling, led by Ilia Werner’s 20 years of real-world product design and entrepreneurship experience. For brands, this creates a strong fit for thoughtful integrations around design tools, creative software, consumer tech, productivity, AI, UX, and digital products that benefit from deeper explanation rather than surface-level promotion.
Growth in the Last 12 months
2.8M
Total views
176K
Watch hours
Total time audience spent watching
56K+
Subscribers
+48.8K added in the last 12 months
3:53
Average view duration
Industry average is ~2:30
32.3M
Impressions
Times thumbnails were shown
The audience
Engagement
5.1%
Click-through rate
Industry average is 3-4%
70%
Viewers retained at 30 seconds
Top tier engagement for YouTube
45%
Avg watch rate on 12- minute videos
Above industry average
43%
Returning viewers
High audience loyalty
362.2K
Monthly viewers
+3.0K
Subscribers / last 28 days
+1.8M
Impressions / last 28 days
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