8 Things You Need To Know This AM: Designing Refinery29’s First Mobile App

How an editorially driven concept became an opportunity for Refinery29’s first mobile app.

At innovative companies, we encourage anyone with an idea to pursue it. As peers, it’s our jobs to empower each other with the tools to help make those ideas reality. That’s how a story about an 87 year-old woman who fell in love with raver clothes was made. It’s also how we found ourselves with feet on the ground in Turkey and produced a heartfelt feature following the lives of 3 Syrian Refugee women. It’s no surprise that when Ben Wilson and Juan Sanchez started working on a mobile app on their own time, we rallied behind them as a team to make it come to life.

Brand new endeavors always bring the greatest learning experiences. Pushing a new mobile app concept through our design process was no exception. This is just an inside look on how it all went down.

Continue Reading this case study on my personal website, jamescabrera.com