Inspiration Featured Language games: Andrea Trabucco-Campos on amplifying cultural narratives in creative projects Andrea Trabucco-Campos, a Pentagram partner, speaks on cultural contexts and their significance in personal design practice.
Inspiration Designing at the junction of two worlds: An interview with Samar Maakaroun Pentagram partner and Lebanese-born designer Samar Maakaroun opens up about her childhood and way into design, bilingual projects, her own studio, and her recent partnership with Pentagram.
Career 6 Design awards you can still join in 2024 Catch a list of reputable design competitions you can jump into this year
Design Tips ReadyLaunch grant: behind the scenes of the evaluation process Members of the jury explain the evaluation process and offer tips for successful design grant applications.
Career Crafting user-friendly websites: the role of UX writing Learn how collaboration of content and design makes all the difference in user experience.
Career Key aspects and common mistakes of pricing design work Design professionals share which factors they consider when setting prices, how they explain them to clients, and what mistakes can occur in the process
Career “You always meet twice in life”: In with a nuanced approach to networking Say goodbye to awkward introductions and hello to meaningful connections. Discover a fresh, stress-free approach to networking that aligns with your personal energy levels and goals.
Career How (not) to start your own agency: 5 mistakes you should avoid Spot the common stumbling blocks on the road to your own agency—and never repeat them
Career Brainstorming with AI: tools and a framework for designers Using AI to generate off-trail ideas and visuals for designs
Career From frustration to action: The fight to end free pitching in design Can speculative work be eradicated? We asked Porto Rocha and other designers who have previously spoken out against this practice.
Career Nailing effective brainstorming: pitfalls to avoid Tips on keeping the team from wandering and focusing on what matters
Career What it takes to be successful as a freelancer Designers' tips on the necessary skills for freelancers, communicating with clients, and pricing your work.
Career Reimagining digital experiences without visual interfaces: An Interview with Tea Uglow In a conversation with Readymag, Tea told us about her work at the intersection of technology and art, the evolution of the IT environment over the last 20 years, and how her experiences as a transgender, queer, and neurodiverse professional have shaped her career and personal life.
Career Design books 2024: What renowned creatives read Inspire your next project with these books for designers.
Career Clients choose us to make a statement: Together with You studio on the inner workings of a design company A deep look inside the creative processes of a two-man design studio that sees people as creators and works together with clients, not for them.
Inspiration Designers on where to find inspiration Professionals share what helps them generate fresh ideas, including insights from those developing specialized tools for creativity.
Career Climbing the ladder: practical tips to advance your design career Learn how to boost your design career through leadership, joining design organizations, and participating in contests.
Career Starting a creative design studio: tips on managing a team Master design leadership by overcoming team challenges
Career How to get hired for design jobs Readymag's design and HR teams share insights on hiring designers, from application tips to what truly makes a candidate stand out.
Career Designers on spotting and overcoming imposter syndrome Ever felt like you’re not good enough to do your job and all your success is just a coincidence? Explore what pro designers have to say about the imposter syndrome and ways to give it hot.
Career A discipline for designers: product designer on why metrics matter Grab firsthand advice on implementing and tracking product metrics for designers, plus two handy frameworks for hypotheses and design tasks.
Career How to negotiate salary: a hands-on guide for your design career Learn the most important steps to nailing salary talks for design jobs, illustrated with a related scenario.
Design Tips How to become an art director: Making your dream career a reality Explore essential skills and learn about the role, duties, and expected salary of an art director.
Inspiration Mentorship: advancing your design career through helping others Design mentors dwell on how mentoring others improved their careers and gave them extra managerial qualities.
Career How design organizations support, educate and unite worldwide creatives Explore how formal design organizations help to shape the industry, level up designers' careers and advocate diversity and inclusion.
Design Tips Behind the scenes: Running your own design studio Learn how to navigate your own business by following expert voices from the design community.
Career Formal design education: Yes or no Three seasoned designers muse on the benefits and downsides of formal education in design.
Design Tips From contributor to owner: Tips for moving into design leadership How to ease the desired, but tough transition
Career Design contests as a self-promo opportunity: benefits, expert tips, and some upcoming awards Learn how design contests can pump your career, what is a must for a winning submission and what competitions you still can grasp this year.
Inspiration They shape the global visual landscape: Exploring the impact of up-and-coming female type designers Readymag diggs into the context and ideas behind “Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design” exhibition.
Career The bare minimum of a designer’s job: tips on making websites accessible Expert tips on accessibility research, inclusive web design and website evaluation.
Design Tips 7 ideas on how to boost your design career Embrace a growth mindset, sharpen your soft skills, build a professional network and other strategies how to step up your design career.
Career 8 common cognitive biases in the UX and ways to smooth them up Learn more about the nastiest biases the human brain is prone to and get a grip on them in your daily UX research and design processes.
Design Tips The best design careers to shoot for in 2023 Creative director, UX designer, product designer, and motion graphic designer: each of these positions presents unique challenges, offers competitive salaries, and requires a unique set of skills and qualifications.
Design Tips Web designer vs. graphic designer: What sets them apart We will outline the similarities and differences between the roles of web designers and graphic designers, to help aspiring designers choose the best career fit for their talents and goals.
Career Readymag website of 2022: Design portfolio made as an online gallery Graphic designer Janice Feryn speaks about her award-winning portfolio and the principles that fuel her work.
Career Readymag Website of 2022: Web design as a way to tell important stories The making of and the story behind the most impactful Readymag Website of the 2022—War in Ukraine.
Career Readymag website of 2022: Running educational initiatives as part of design activism Ukrainian designer Andreas Smolyarson contemplates the whys and hows behind his training set to teach students the basics of web design in Readymag.
Career Champions for humanity: running effective research for empathetic design Explore the basic notions, stages and stumbling blocks of emphatic design research—the cornerstone of web design.
Career The ethics of design competitions: how we should judge design While design awards can contribute to the overall quality of both design culture and community and come up with some practical benefits for participants, they are often questioned as missing the mark.
Marketing Why businesses need creatives who know strategy and how you can help This is how designers can weave business strategy into design execution: an op-ed by Douglas Davis, Head of Brooklyn-based consultancy The Davis Group
Career Writing is designing: Content designers on how to drive user experience with every word We talked to four seasoned content pros to distill how best to integrate content design into a product development cycle, how to measure the effectiveness of UX content and what being a non-native speaker in the content industry actually means.
Career 4 ideas from Airbnb Design Lead on how to level up your design career Airbnb Design Lead Doug Alves speaks on his way into the profession, shares 4 ideas that helped him take his career to the next level and advises 10 useful books on design.
Career First-hand experience: how to design, prototype and animate, while being reluctant to code Pavel Kedich is a design director and Readymag power user. Here’s how he manages to create stunning visual narratives and complex interactive prototypes without using code.
Career First-hand experience: I launched my design studio during the pandemic Hannah Springett is a UK based designer and entrepreneur. The founder of HanSpringett Ltd. and visual storytelling lecturer at Condé Nast College, shares her journey building a design agency during the pandemic and reveals how Readymag helped.
Career No Code tools are either hype or niche — you should opt for niche Explaining why No Code approaches are great only when it comes to narrow-scope tasks.
Career How to jump-start into director’s treatments: insider shares the desired skills & tools In this piece, Anastasia Mokhan, an assistant in a creative agency in Moscow, explains how to jump-start in the field of director’s treatments and tells how to find clients.
Career Designing Women: In-House Histories Designing women is an educational project by Readymag exploring the impact of women in design. It also aims to raise awareness of an ongoing gender imbalance in the design industry. We publish a chapter of the essay by Madeleine Morley below.
Career Alone in the club: working as a designer with color blindness Jansen Cumbie is a visual designer with color blindness. He told how this impacts his work and the accessibility of internet interfaces.
Career Redesign as passion: meet three designers who made bold changes to already great projects Why bother to redesign web projects at all? After all, a website is not something set for eternity — so maybe when it’s already OK, you should not bother to make it better? Well, not exactly.
Career Creating website for your design studio? Readymag publishers offer advice Design agencies can turn their websites into powerful promotional tools that tell potential clients about their style, values, and demonstrate exactly what they can do.
Career How to kickstart a design studio in a vibrant Asian hub with Readymag Readymag is used literally all over the world. This time we spoke to Alice Mourou, co-founder of Hong Kong-based Oddity studio, which creates design identities for chic Hong Kong startups and fashion boutiques as well as pan-Asian financial institutions.
Career Want to start your own online magazine? Readymag publishers offer advice We’ve selected three online magazines created with Readymag to ask their publishers for advice on how to run a great online publication.
