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Interview Magazine

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FASHION

• Fashion News
• Designer Spotlight
• Trend Reports
• On the Runway

HAIR & BEAUTY

• Beauty News
• Beauty Tips
• Hair Trends
• Hair Tips
• Makeup & Skincare
• Health & Fitness

STREET FLAIR

• Look of the Day
• Around the World
• Fashion Week 

MEN

• Fashion
• Grooming
• On the Street

MUSIC

• Music News
• Artist Spotlight
• YMBOI Playlist 

NEWS & VIEWS

• Africa
• US
• World

THE MAGAZINE

• Current Issue
• Cover Interview
• Past Issues
• Subscribe

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FASHION

• Fashion News
• Global Street Style
• Men's Fashion
• Women's Fashion
• Designer Spotlight

BEAUTY & GROOMING

• Skin, Hair, Nails 
• Makeup
• Tips & Tricks
• Natural
• Men

MUSIC

• Music News
• Artists Spotlight 
• Y'MBOI Playlist

CURRENT ISSUES

• Breaking News
• Charitable Causes

Y'MBOI TV

• Fashion
• Beauty
• Music
• Current Issues
• Readers Response

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ABOUT

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ARCHIVES (Feb 2012 - Feb 2013)

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Target Audience

Target audience:

 Millennials/ Generation Y (also known as the Boomerang generation or Peter Pan generation)

• Born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s (1982-2000)
• Emphasis on extrinsic values such as money, fame, and image
• Instant gratification/ Impatient
• Short attention span / Easily bored
• Influenced by peers
• Not yet grown up (live at home with parents, no "real" jobs)
• Multi-taskers
• Racially and ethnically diverse, less religious
• Embraced a variety of subcultures 
• Technology savvy and dependent (computer, cellphone, mp3) and constantly connected
• Like to express themselves (social media profile, video, tattoos, piercings) "with limits"
• Confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change

Interview questions:

1. What age group will be readers?
2.Are they male or female?
3. What is their highest education level?
4.What is their income level?
5. What is their ethnicity?

Psychographics:
6. What kind of hobbies do they have? How do they spend their free time?
7. Do their spend to be conservative or liberal in their lifestyle?
8. Are they introverted or extroverted?

Location:
9. Where do they hang out physically?
10. What about online? (social media, forums,networking sites…)

Design
10. What attracts them to fashion magazine site? (fonts, color schemes, features, images…)

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Redesign...and the Competitors

Ymboi Magazine

The competitors:

Fashizblack

Ghubar

Iona

Website Design : The Good and The Bad

Good Website Design

Meb Rure

The loading page and the way users have to switch between pages is a little annoying but I love the creativity of the site and its simplicity. It is extremely pleasant to the eyes.

Base Official
Engaging site with the interactivity. Straight to the point portfolio site.

Editer

Easy to navigate. Simple and clean.

Bad Website Design

Lingscars
The page is extremely busy with too many colors and too many different font properties which is extremely unpleasant to the eyes. Animations and images are distracting.

Ebony
The background distract the user from the main content.
Too many columns, borders and no structure.

Swide
As the user navigate from one section to the next, the color of the background changes.
Too many columns different columns which gives it a bad layout and a lack of organization and consistency.