Gritty Pretty: Starting your own online magazine
Gritty Pretty is the creation of Eleanor Pendleton — Australian award-winning beauty editor and the style influencer, who has worked for Harper’s BAZAAR Australia, Men’s Health and Refinery29. The...
View ArticleWho to follow on Instagram — Vol. 2
This is a monthly compilation of Readymag’s 10 favourite Instagram accounts of creative people and communities, whose lifestyle and sources of inspiration are consonant with our conception of...
View ArticleSecret Widgets: E-commerce, Surveys, Looped Videos and 2 more.
Readymag is built on the idea of modularity, which means that the possibilities of the platform aren’t limited to a standard set of widgets. In this series of articles, we’re selecting the best online...
View ArticleWhy you need a microsite & how to make one.
Many of us have a rather weighty online presence — 1-2 profiles in social networks, professional portfolio and a resume, personal blog, a photo album, a mood board, an email, and a couple of different...
View Article10 Pinterest boards for an overall creative inspiration.
Expanding the boundaries of inspiration, this month, we’ve decided to appeal to the leading collector of everything eye-catching — Pinterest. Design masters at work, Soviet typography, Japanese graphic...
View ArticleA lesson in travel storytelling: 6 examples from around the world + bonus...
In today’s digital world storytelling and technology become inseparably linked, making the narrative more engaging and offering a diversity of interactivity. The possibilities of digital storytelling...
View Article25 tools & apps we use at Readymag to get things done
On our path to creating Readymag, we’re equally devoted to improving the way our team works and cooperates. Over the time, we’ve tried a whole bunch of different apps and tools, which were similarly...
View ArticleSecret Widgets: Live Chat, Signup Form, 3D gallery and 2 more.
Readymag is built on the idea of modularity, which means that the possibilities of the platform aren’t limited to a standard set of widgets. In this series of articles, we’re selecting the best online...
View ArticleLaunching R/m Design School
Today storytelling and design are two notions that go hand in hand in order to create a meaning and an impact. Here at Readymag, storytelling is our direction and design is the core of our vision,...
View ArticleCreating MOON: a story behind the design process with Readymag
Pavel Kedich is a web-designer in a multi-disciplinary agency VCG. This is a story behind “MOON” — a series of his design experiments with Readymag, the result of a simple aspiration to materialise...
View Article10 Ultimate Holiday Gifts For a Designer
With Christmas and New Year around the corner, you probably find yourself wondering what to put under the tree for your creative friends. Just in time for last-minute holiday shopping, we made a list...
View Article11 Questions with Claudio Guglieri
Claudio Guglieri is a design director at Microsoft Groove and Movies & TV department and former Creative Director at Elephant, an agency serving exclusively Apple. In his Readymag-based portfolio...
View ArticleThe Ethical Issue
The tumult of 2020 transformed the way people live and interact with each other. This encompasses all the common social norms — including patterns of behavior, communications, and attitudes. Now people...
View Article“Purpose-driven design is not profitable”: how leading by example can prove...
With more designers and agencies adopting a position of purpose, it’s harder to stand out and truly demonstrate a unique creative angle. Abb-d Choudhury, founder of Driftime®, writes about why he chose...
View ArticleTough times call for experimental social projects
Fraser Morton, a mixed-media journalist, filmmaker & founder of Far Features, an independent media production company, talks about using times of disruption as a springboard for creative...
View ArticleDesign ethics and relationships-centred practice
Design ethics and relationship-centred practiceAs designers, we are not set apart from systems of inequality, acting from the outside in. We shape and mold; we create cause and effect. Immy Robinson,...
View ArticleWhy user-centred design struggles with ethics
For decades we’ve been taught that user-centricity is the key to good design. But now the philosophy is showing vulnerabilities. We need approaches that are less narrow, less transactional, and more...
View ArticleViewport customization for mobile
We have released two new features that allow to fine-tune user mobile experience.— Select from a list of mobile devices in Preview mode. This feature allows users to view the mobile version of their...
View ArticleDark patterns, the dark side of design
Dark patterns are online user experiences that are intentionally designed to trick users into taking unintended actions. These actions rarely benefit the user, but rather serve the owner of the site or...
View ArticleChanges to checkout flow in Stripe-based online stores
The checkout flow in our e-commerce widget has changed. Store owners can enable Google Pay and Apple Pay, set up promo codes, change delivery settings and support recurring billing. Users will be now...
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