What to publish with Design Led?
Let your creative and handcrafted content reach the India’s fastest growing design network by publishing your stories in Design Led.
What type of content does Design Led publish?
What we believe is — Content for your Design Led articles should be always about going beyond your limits and boundaries and putting your thoughts, experiences, learning into those beautiful and meaningful words within a frame.
Categories for Writers
When we are looking into categories, we are primarily looking into two parts broadly, design and designers. The discourse we hope that would come through is to look at design profession holistically from both what designers do and also from what designers feel and become.
- Brand, Product & Design : From brand design to product design. This is more from the traditional side of design, which can sometimes be viewed independent of business and marketing
- Design for Tech are explorations around the intersection between tech and design. This would cover UX, UI, Data-Visualization and possibly the role of design in startups since primarily tech driven companies have significant design.
- Design Strategy & Research (& In-sighting) are exploration in the intersection of design and business that explores the role of design as a strategic tool or that helps in building it as a
- Growth for Designer are explorations that might help us be more reflective of the person who designs, emotions, personal development and experiences. (This is something we are still defining)
- Art & Culture section plans to explore the idea of what the overlap of design and visual story tellers through interviews, journeys and understanding of the influence of culture into our work.
- Reviews & References section is one of the most sort section, that can become quick guides for newbies and even expert in finding resources. This could explore toolkit, review of books / courses & interviews.
Review from Editors
We definitely want to create a sense of pride in reading and seeing the contribution of people from the design field while we would also want to make sure that the quality of the content becomes better as we go along. For the same, here are some broad idea on which we review content before publishing:
- We are looking for well-built articles and thought provoking stories in the categories mentioned above believing you have fair amount of experience in your design field so that the content of your article brings about the true sense of expression of design.
- We prioritize in-depth stories with references and links supported by existing research.
- We prefer to publish genuine and original stories/write-ups/articles/posts which are converted from insights and learnings from your portfolio projects or case studies for better takeaways for readers.
- As the categories are quite vast, we also encourage you to write articles about various experiences in design and life by following all guidelines and will be happily publishing them.
- We only prefer to publish posts that are not trying to sell anything — whether it’s a tool, a book, a training course, tickets to an event, an app, a design studio, a website that profits from views and ads, or your professional services. For this reason, we also do not publish articles coming from brands or business profiles.
- We only publish article written exclusively for Design Led — Medium and not published with any other publication at the same time.
- We also prefer to publish creative short stories or any format of stories related to the subject of Design and its categories as mentioned above.
What should you edit before publishing your article?
- The title and cover image to match our editorial style guide.
- Typos, formatting style, and minor copy edits.
- In case we want to propose more structural changes to your article, we will leave private notes.
- We will remove any affiliate program links or promotional links that are not related to the article.
“My article has been featured by Medium. Can I add it to Design Led as well?”
Absolutely yes. When you add your story to a publication, you are adding a whole new audience to it (that publication’s followers). Your story will still be promoted by Medium on its homepage and topic pages, in addition to the publication and the publication’s social channels.
“Can I add my article to two publications?”
Medium only allows articles to be published to one publication at a time. If your article has been published with a different publication, we are not allowed to request it to the Design Led.
“I have different formats of expressing other than an article, Can I put it across…”
We love experimenting with different mediums and formats.Maybe your content is made of several short videos. Maybe you are creating a satirical piece. Or writing an open letter. Share it with us: we are always open to different formats, channels and styles.
“Can I share my Design led article link outside our community?”
Yes.
“Can more than one person collectively write an article for Design Led?”
There is a different section in Design Led publication about How and What to publish collectively. Please refer there.
