Personas 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.
Personas Formal design education: Yes or no Three seasoned designers muse on the benefits and downsides of formal education in design.
Personas 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.
Personas The bare minimum of a designer’s job: tips on making websites accessible Expert tips on accessibility research, inclusive web design and website evaluation.
Hows How WePresent, This Too Shall Grow and Readymag create and design content to build brand awareness Learn why commercial and individual brands turn to content marketing, how they create unique content and evaluate its impact. And also delight your eye with cool examples.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Hows 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas Going digital with Readymag: SOFA Magazine expands online Surfing the digital wave can be challenging for magazines. But it can dramatically change how we interact with them. In this piece, we look at how SOFA magazine launched a digital edition with smart content and captivating visuals.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas Abstract shapes go on a web journey: behind the scenes of an audio-visual album by Andrey Lee × Readymag Moscow-based musician Andrey Lee has collaborated with Readymag on a synesthetic web edition for his album Object and Environment («Объект и среда»). Currently, two tracks accompanied by interactive animated graphics are available at andreylee.com.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas Why we wanted to highlight the work of women in design Just 1 in 5 working designers are women, according to recent research from the UK’s Design Museum. Enrollment statistics also indicate that 7 out of 10 students studying design are women. So what happens between the classroom and the studio?
Personas 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.
Personas How to create an art platform based on blockchain technology Rareart.io is a blockchain-based platform for digital artists, protecting authorship and giving creators the opportunity to monetize their work. It was featured in Explore — a curated selection of inspiring projects created with Readymag.
Personas Kubrick as a workout: behind the scenes of an award-winning educational editorial Kubrick is a digital editorial exploring the creative legacy of legendary American film director Stanley Kubrick. Made with Readymag by the Ukrainian design agency Tubik.
Personas A Life Electric: journalist takes Readymag to kick off epilepsy awareness campaign Fraser Morton and the designer of the project, Ali Kelly, told us about the story behind this comprehensive work.
Personas Telecom website makes good use of Readymag animations Futuro is a full stack development studio based in Berlin and Kyiv. Their project for Ontel, an American telecom company, won in Readymag’s annual Projects of the Year competition. We asked Futuro and our product designer Stas Aki to describe what’s so special about this website.
Personas Voyage Loire: fashion journey website made with Readymag Created by graphic designer Leonid Tatarinov as a sideline, the website for Voyage Loire won in the Promo category in Readymag’s Projects of the Year 2018. We asked Leonid about the story behind this work.
Personas 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.
Personas Readymag goes basketball: how the 7D8 studio helped an NBA player win a trophy The Salt Lake City-based design studio 7D8 uses Readymag inventively in their work, including a recent series of promo pages for the Utah Jazz basketball team. Readymag’s editorial team talked with Dan McKinney, a designer at 7D8, about their projects and how Readymag fits in.
Personas 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.
Personas Designing Stories: behind the scenes of Readymag’s editorial series In November 2018 Readymag issued the 12th installment of Stories — our in-house series of multimedia editorials exploring the creative legacy of prominent 20-century designers. In this piece we explain how this series came to be.
Personas 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.
Personas Emotions before rationality: why designers reinvented the look of World Chess The 2018 World Chess Championship begins in London on November 9. Moscow-based design consultancy Shuka created a thoughtful visual identity for the event. Shuka’s creative directors Ivan Velichko and Ivan Vasin explained how the business goals of the project impacted its look.
Personas 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.
Personas 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.
Personas How sideline turned into ultimate design project: the story of Dynamic/MTL Dynamic/MTL — one of Montreal’s top design conferences — is run by two people: art director Max Kaplun and content strategist and learning specialist André Valle. Begun as an in-house DIY initiative, it grew into a regular gathering uniting Montreal’s tech and creative communities.
Personas Radical Russians take Readymag to rock Venice Biennale The 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture began with two Russian pavilions working simultaneously. Next to the official “Station Russia” opened a curious newcomer: Virtual Russian Pavilion. It’s been launched by a defiant collective calling itself 🦁🦄 (Lion and Unicorn).
Personas 10 Questions with Anton Repponen Anton Repponen is an interaction designer whose architectural, humanistic approach has earned him an estimable CV and clients such as Google, Sony, Nintendo and Balenciaga. He currently lives in New York and has set up his own studio with fellow designer Irene Pereyra.
Personas 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.
