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Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
Hi everyone, it is class project time...
don't consider this homework, it's kind of like homework...
but it is a way for you to follow in this course...
and not just kind of like blindly following and watching videos...
getting you to do stuff, and what I've done is...
I'm making sure that everyone's is a little bit unique.
So in your Exercise Files you will see, there's not much in there now...
because I'm kind of building the course...
but there will be something called Class Projects...
open that up, and it'll look something like this.
So it'll tell you what you need to do for this particular class project...
and this one's pretty easy...
it's generating your own brief and persona.
So I've made a website, well, the bringyourownlaptop team...
have made a website for you...
so it's called the randomprojectgenerator.com...
go there and generate your brief.
So basically once you're here...
I want you to go to the one that says Adobe XD...
enter your name, use your last name...
your friend's name, your pet's name...
something to give your business a unique name, I'm going to enter mine.
So Scott is my last name, that's what I'm going to use...
and then enter your location, so I'm living in Limerick...
and we hit 'Generate Project'...
and that is the product that you're going to be selling.
We're kind of in the food delivery theme...
so in this case it's "Scott's Cheese"...
you saw in the last video that I did, I've already done this...
and I ended up with Scott's, what was it? Green Tea, that was it.
So yours would be different, it'd be unique...
except the name and the place where the business is being held...
it's in your area, so, because you--
you know what the area will support and will like...
but over here this will be all different.
Now if you're like, I am so not doing cheese...
you can hit 'Retry', but just once.
You might decide, ah, Potato Chips, that's the one I want...
so no more, you know, let it go through...
and just keep hitting 'Retry', and finding one...
use the first or the second one...
do not hit it a third time, there'll be trouble.
So once you've got your brief...
it is really handy when you get something that you're not sure about.
If you're like, "I've never eaten a potato chip in my life"...
that's a great product to work with...
because you're going to have to really understand Sebastian...
and what he's like in his late 20s...
and kind of figure out what he likes as a freelancer.
So once you've got your brief...
either take a screenshot or download...
click this 'Download as PNG'...
and that is what you're going to work along with this course with.
So we are going to build the same stuff, but what I don't want to do...
is have everyone looking the same as me with green tea...
so we're going to all follow along...
and you're going to pick images, fonts, and colors...
that are different from mine because I want you to build...
something great for your portfolio at the end of this...
and yeah, that's just so that when you're submitting homework...
we're not all doing the exact same thing...
it's a bit of creativity there.
So it says, do that, it says, enter your name and location...
save the brief to your computer, and the deliverable...
so there's going to be deliverables on all of these...
and this one is, just upload your jpeg or your png screenshot...
to the assignments, or the projects...
or the comments section of this website.
Okay, so that's all you have to do, nothing else...
and I will see you in the next video...
get your brief, be excited by your cheese, or whatever it might be...
and we will see you in the next video.