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Design portfolio Featured

What sets award-winning portfolios apart

Readymag design team shares insights on the Websites of the Year winners from 2022-2024.

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Inspiration Featured

With ears and eyes: design experience behind nailing music culture projects

Designers share the processes of creating visuals for music, from album covers to merch.

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How dark UX patterns make design hostile

Looking into ethical design by spotting and understanding deceptive patterns.

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How to train your taste as a designer

A conversation with Readymag's designers and Andre do Amaral about what taste means today, how to develop it, and, most importantly, how to use it at work.

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The art of learning: Broadening your design foundations

Musings and advice on the crucial role of self-education in a designer’s career—by the Readymag design team.

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10 real, fun and flawed habits to design like humans

How to stay connected to the playful, imperfect, human side of creativity—especially when everything around you is pushing for speed, clarity, and perfection.

Web specials

Exploring the backbones of design and capturing the spirit of the modern web era

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Designing Women

An enlightening project exploring the impact of women in design: it aims to raise awareness of an ongoing gender imbalance in the industry.

Navigating career: Designers’ milestones

Navigating career: Designers’ milestones

A collection of milestones of most designers’ professional lives.

Guide to Presentation Design

Guide to Presentation Design

It runs you through the essentials of any business pitch deck: messaging, structure, visuals, and tool choice.

The Faces Behind Typefaces

The Faces Behind Typefaces

A digital editorial unpacking the role of the Type Directors Club medalists and the award itself in the global design and typography community.

Design Almanac

An educational project covering the fundamentals of design through interviews with top-tier designers. It covers typography, grid, color and animation.

Design stories

A digital archive of prominent 20th-century visionaries who shaped modern design culture.