A workout for creativity and design thinking

Here is Readymag’s Design Workout built up for designers to train creative thinking and spontaneity. There are thirteen unique tasks that offer no limit to the medium—it can be anything from pencil and paper to tomatoes and mozzarella.

The inspiration came from a list of exercises we received from the DesignWorkout team. I wanted to depict them in a project users can interact with. That’s why the main page is rearrangeable, as well as some others that encourage you to make a portrait, draw your room, or create a timer using the Draggable feature. Though I suggest doing the exercises in the Readymag editor to make the most out of this workout.

Inventing new ways to use draggable shapes became harder after a few pages—that was my own creative ‘workout’ of sorts! One of my tasks was to show how to harness this richness, as limits are necessary for any decent design. That’s why I adhered to a certain minimalistic style throughout the whole project.