Inspiration Apps to boost your creativity Tools that help spark ideas, gather inspiration, and experiment with different creative approaches—as selected by Readymag team members.
Design Tips Design smarter: key UX metrics for data-driven design Learn what it means to be data-driven in web design.
Design Tips Mastering accessible design: basic tips and tools for every website Advice on how to integrate accessibility into your web design process
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 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
Inspiration Non-trivial designs in marketing communication: examples from renowned brands See how designs can boost your brand message—exemplified by reputed campaigns
Design Tips Design ideas: e-menu for a food spot Grab 7 tips on designing an unconventional e-menu for a restaurant or a cafe.
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 What it takes to be successful as a freelancer Designers' tips on the necessary skills for freelancers, communicating with clients, and pricing your work.
Design Tips Mastering color combinations: theory and practical tips Make your websites pop using color combos that work
Design Tips 5 visual storytelling techniques to craft engaging web publications Get design tips and inspo examples for better digital editorials.
Design Tips Applying for design grants: sourcing, documentation, and communication tips A brief yet ultimate guide on finding and applying for a design grant.
Design Tips Visual identity essentials: brand designs that stand out How to increase brand awareness using design elements such as logo, color, typography, etc.
Design Tips How to make a web design portfolio: tips, tools, and case studies Learn the know-how to craft a portfolio that showcases your top projects and the stories behind them with our guide.
Design Tips Font pairing: go-to tips on combining typefaces Explore font pairing basics, balance tips, pitfalls to avoid, and tools for finding the right typefaces.
Design Tips Make your website move: simple animation techniques for designers NA no-сode guide on animation in web design with real examples.
Design Tips 5 principles for creating eye-catching event landing pages Five simple strategies with real examples and ready-to-use event website templates.
Design Tips Mobile-first design: Making websites that everyone loves Tap into the principles of mobile design strategy and see how it measures up against responsive design.
Design Tips UX writing tips for designers: how to craft user-friendly content Master UX texts with straightforward dos and don'ts and get inspired by actual examples to make your content feel more human.
Design Tips Landing page design made easy in three simple steps Discover how to create a landing page from scratch that will become users’ favorite, illustrated with real-world examples.
Design Tips Beyond PowerPoint: Exploring an alternative for presentation design Discover how to address challenges in crafting pitch decks, business presentations, marketing showcases, you name it.
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.
Design Tips From concept to completion: Key principles of presentation design These design tips will take your presentations from “Meh” to “Wow”
Inspiration Readymag Examples: the selection process and criteria explained Learn how Readymag’s design team picks the crème de la crème for the Examples and its social networks. And be sure to submit your favs!
Design Tips Tools and tips to enhance design team workflow and collaboration Unlock team potential with design jams, fun contests, idea boards, and Readymag features.
Inspiration How storytelling techniques can help you create better design Learn to harness the power of the Narrative Arc, The Hero's Journey, and other approaches to structure and present information in your projects more engagingly
Design Tips 5 creativity exercises to advance your design skills and career Find out exercises that never get old as well as potential use cases
Design Tips How to deal with imposter syndrome: Four strategies and case studies inside Navigate self-doubt in your career by exploring real-life examples from seasoned designers.
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.
Design Tips Designers share how to create award-winning websites Find out tips to make websites that win design awards and wow—so you can do it too.
Design Tips From contributor to owner: Tips for moving into design leadership How to ease the desired, but tough transition
Inspiration 6 stunningly fresh design studio websites for your inspiration Mark down some fresh ideas for yourself.
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.
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 Summarizing client-designer workflow in Readymag A designer is making a Readymag website for you: This is how to manage and host it.
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.
Design Tips Pitching for startups: how to prepare and deliver a winning deck Tips and tricks from a pitching coach on content, design and delivery of your next winning deck.
Design Tips No-code design—the ultimate choice for swift creative processes Simplify your web design process by getting rid of code
Design Tips The typical design career path you can expect No two design career paths are the same, but here’s what you might expect from an exciting, dynamic career in design.
Design Tips Incorporating UX design principles in your e-commerce websites Aligning your marketing and UX design strategies can help you get more out of your e-commerce sites. Here’s how to get started.
Design Tips Unlocking ideas: 6 frameworks for design brainstorming Find out the most effective ways to easily ideate fresh concepts in your design team.
Design Tips Sharpen these soft skills to become a trusted design leader Seasoned designers share their insights into personal qualities that will help you build influence and get power.
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.
Design Tips Getting down to the fundamentals of presentation design Explore the in-depth article on what goes into a clear and powerful presentation and how it can be used to communicate value and make your business stand out.
Design Tips Cultivate co-authoring mode: How to give great design feedback Principles of workflow management that ease communication on joint design projects and lead to better feedback delivery
Design Tips The best landing page tools made for designers In this article, you'll find an in-depth look at the top tools for designing effective landing pages that drive traffic.
Design Tips The 3 best tools to build an impressive corporate magazine In this article, we’ll consider 3 of the best tools you can use to design and build an impressive corporate magazine.
Design Tips How to start your design studio In this article, we’ll provide a beginner’s guide to starting your design studio – stay tuned for bonus tips and tricks along the way.
Design Tips 8 productivity tips for creatives and designers Here are eight easy ways you can stay productive and avoid overwhelming yourself.
Design Tips How to make a design portfolio that stands out We’ll talk you through the essential components every successful design portfolio needs, and how to put it together.
Design Tips Building a portfolio website? Here are 3 mistakes to avoid Here are 3 of the most common portfolio mistakes designers make–and what you can do to avoid them.
Design Tips Teamwork challenges and ways to cope with them Learn how to efficiently manage the most typical issues in design teams: troubles with deadline management, conflicts and slow task progress.
Design Tips How to ensure seamless collaboration with clients Unpacking communication tactics that will help you eliminate the risk of misunderstanding, and stay in sync with your clients throughout the entirety of your projects.
Selected In user flow: how Brickit enhances emotional connection throughout the customer journey Andrey Medvedev, Head of Design at Brickit, analyzes the emotional challenges most common user paths present and describes solutions.
Design Tips Adapting to women’s needs: How women’s health app Flo builds confidence and trust We talked to Rachel McConnell, Head of UX Content, and Alex Gavrilenko, Flo Product Designer, to uncover how their designs helped evoke confidence and create positive user experiences.
Design Tips 7 easy ways to save on your Readymag subscription In this piece, we explain seven ways to reduce subscription costs — and there’s nothing complicated about trying them out.
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.
Design Tips How to save money on your Readymag plan There are plenty of Readymag plans tailored to every need: from a one-person design studio to large creative enterprises. Here are all the ways you can reduce your recurring costs.
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.
Design Tips Basic dos and don’ts: 5 things to remember when designing the web In this piece, based on our educational pop-it Debris of Attention, we offer some rules of modern etiquette for people designing the web.
Design Tips Expand your color spectrum: four exercises from design teachers + suggested films In this article we offer four creative exercises practiced by renowned design teachers.
Design Tips How to create a hamburger menu in Readymag This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a hamburger menu. We will show you two types of menu animations while highlighting new features — a toggle to hide Opacity animations in Editor, Current link styles, and global widgets in templates.
Design Tips Boost your Instagram with DIY link hub in bio Since Instagram allows only one active link in bio, brand influencers, marketers, online creatives, and entrepreneurs are always on the search for ways to make content live longer than feed and optimise traffic.
Design Tips Creating a custom cursor Learn how to design a visually-catching custom cursor with just a few lines of code.
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.
Design Tips Client-designer collaboration in Readymag: Things to consider Find out which nuances you are to consider for smooth and effective collaboration with your clients in Readymag.
Design Tips Read me, break me, recreate me: how to lay out a stunning longread with templates Pavel Kedich, a graphic designer and Readymag brand ambassador, explains how to adapt each template to your needs and lay out a stunning publication.
Design Tips Ladies and Gentlemen, We’re Floating in Space: Creating Complex Animations with Readymag Animations have always been an important part of Readymag. They’ve also been updated recently, allowing users to add up to four different animation types for a single widget and get even more creative with loops.
Design Tips Creating an online store in Readymag: a round-up of widgets & tools you need Check out a handy list of tools you'll need to create your online store and our step-by-step explanations of how to use them.
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.
Design Tips Five ideas for innovative navigation with practical tips Inspirational concepts for offbeat website navigation from on-hover animation to sandwich menus, plus video how-tos on them.
Design Tips R/m for sales & marketing: an easy workflow for versatile presentations When it comes to presentations, treatments, and pitches, Readymag is particularly useful: you can easily create and publish online, protect your work with a password, and then send the link to your clients.
Design Tips More secret widgets: Instagram embedding, 3D models & video player When building a website with Readymag you can employ an ever-growing number of third-party elements, thus expanding the functionality of your project almost infinitely.
Design Tips 6 tips for better mobile design Here are a handful to help you become a more versatile mobile designer.
Design Tips How we sustain Readymag’s visual identity without a style guide Readymag designers explain how our ever-changing identity reflects our values.
Design Tips Architecture, design & 3D modeling combine to create event website An international conference called Future Architect took place in Moscow in September. Its edgy identity was created by Ira Ivanova, an independent Russian graphic designer and Readymag ambassador.
Design Tips Visual blocks & accent on navigation: how to build a portfolio for a multi-hyphenate Yana Sharipova, a young multi-talented creative from Moscow, tells how she created a minimalistic edgy portfolio with Readymag.
Design Tips How to create brand guidelines: 6 examples with tips Thorough and well-articulated brand guidelines are crucial to establish and maintain a strong design presence of your company. We have put together a collection of great examples created with Readymag to get you inspired along with some useful side notes.
Inspiration Llama doing backflips: a journey to make internet different We spoke with Stockholm-based designer Adam Hunt about his formative years, creating a website for KALLIDA festival and his experience with Readymag.
Design Tips How to make your Readymag project load quicker There are certain tricks that help a project load more quickly and efficiently even when internet connectivity is weak. Here are some useful tips.
Design Tips 5 widgets to boost user engagement Here are five tips to increase engagement levels using Iframes in the Embed & Code widget, available with all Readymag plans.
Design Tips How to create an awesome long read Check out the nine tips to design an engaging long read and get some inspo from our handpicked examples.
Design Tips Creating an online store with Readymag In this article, we talk about some new changes to Readymag policy that make it easier to create an online store—with both Creator and Professional plans.
Design Tips What designers need to know about font licensing Font copyright and licensing might seem like a cloudy issue at times, so below we explain the rules of using fonts in Readymag.
Design Tips 12 time-savers to speed up your workflow in Readymag Save your time: explore our 12 easy tips on how to design in Readymag swiftly and effortlessly.
Design Tips Step-by-step guide to Readymag code export If you need to self-host your project, you can simply export the code from Readymag and reassemble it at its new online home. Below we explain how.
Design Tips How to quickly create a landing page for your typeface BlkBlkLtr is a typeface project that currently offers two grotesque typefaces: Mica and Lethia. All of BlkBlkLtr’s web pages are skilfully created with Readymag. We talked about the project with its creator, Neha Hattangdi.
Design Tips How to export Readymag projects as PDFs With Creator and Professional plans, your projects can be exported as PDF files. Below we provide some details.
Design Tips Shortcuts in use: principles of Readymag product designer Stas Aki Shortcuts — keyboard combinations that perform certain actions when pressed simultaneously — save us seconds, months, hours, and, in the long run, even years. Stas Aki, a product designer at Readymag, recently published his musings on the topic called Shrtcts.
Design Tips Versatile layout & tricky animations: anatomy of award-winning Readymag portfolio Alexander Kjær Grote, 23, is a Media Graphic Designer currently interning at a digital agency in Aarhus, Denmark. His portfolio won in Readymag's annual competition Projects of the Year, so we asked Alexander about this work and the principles that fuelled it.
Design Tips 5 widgets for local businesses Here are five tips to get your business rolling using the Embed & Code Widgets.
Design Tips Making extensive product presentations look elegant Product presentation is a subtle art, requiring a delicate balance of images and information. They can also quickly get out of hand, sprawling over one hundred slides rather easily.
Inspiration Made in Asian America: use Readymag to build a successful e-commerce business Black Bean Grocery is an online shop offering apparel, zines, and cosmetic goods evoking the aesthetics of your favorite Asian grocery store or supermarket. It was launched in the fall of 2018 by Brandon Ly and James Bui, designers and engineers who met and studied together at Stanford University.
Design Tips Know your cookies: checklist to make your Readymag website GDPR-friendly We’d like to highlight the key points to help you along your GDPR journey when creating web projects with Readymag.
Inspiration Russian spleen goes digital How to create a digital editorial with an interactive map, meaningful animations, and wild fonts without coding? We discussed the topic with Readymag ambassador Pavel Kedich, who recently created Russian Spleen.
Design Tips Fixed Widgets: 8 ways to use them effectively In these websites with smartly-placed fixed elements layouts get more flexible and multi-layered, freed from the confines of static print formats.
Design Tips Animation At Work: Tips on How to Engage Your Audience In this article, Readymag’s Product Designer Stas Aki shares some suggestions on how to command a viewer’s attention and communicate ideas in an efficient way.
Design Tips Lifehack: how to get R/m (almost) free Here are several ideas on how to significantly save on your Readymag subscription—choose the one that fits you the most.
Design Tips Readymag Under the Hood: Faster Vertical Viewer Implementation In December 2017 Readymag launched Faster Vertical Viewer, which enables smoother viewing experience for projects with fixed widgets and heavy animations. This is how we did it.
Design Tips Secret Widgets: Forms, Quizzes, Tagged Images and more In this post we put on display five online tools and services that you can use with R/m to create fantastic publications.
Design Tips 11 Questions with Claudio Guglieri Claudio Guglieri is a design director at Microsoft Groove and Movies & TVdepartment and former Creative Director at Elephant, an agency serving exclusively Apple.
Design Tips How to make an online portfolio: 6 basic rules + 5 bonus tips Every day we look through dozens of portfolios created using Readymag. These are the works of web and graphic designers, art directors, photographers — people of all kinds of creative disciplines.
