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Overview
Throughout the course I’ll invite you to participate in a real-life freelance project which I’m working on. It’s a project that requires a fresh website and mobile app interface. This will prepare you for dealing with real world projects if you choose to move towards a UX/UI career path.
This course is aimed at people interested in UI/UX Design. We’ll start from the very beginning and work all the way through, step by step. If you already have some UI/UX Design experience but want to get up to speed using Adobe XD then this course is perfect for you too!
First, we will go over the differences between UX and UI Design. We will look at what our brief for this real-world project is, then we will learn about low-fidelity wireframes and how to make use of existing UI design kits.
I’ll go over all of the essential tools necessary for creating excellent wireframes, including: type, colours, icons, Lorem ipsum, artboards, prototyping, models and popups, symbols and repeat grids. We will even make use of the new prototyping app so that you can experience your prototype on your mobile device.
An important part of maximising your UX Design workflow is being able to utilise other software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. This is why I’ll be teaching you how to make use of both to help boost your XD productivity.
One of the awesome new features of XD is micro-interactions. I’ll be teaching you all about those and how to use them to grow icons and scenes. This is one of the parts of web design that’s growing and being adopted rapidly so you won’t want to miss out on learning it early.
There are two class projects for you to complete during this class, these will help develop your skills and will give you something for your own portfolio.
It is now time to upgrade yourself & learn Adobe XD.
What are the requirements?
- You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
- No previous design experience is needed.
- No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.
What am I going to get from this course?
- 87 lectures of well-structured, step by step content.
- Learn to design websites & mobile phone apps.
- Work with fonts & colors.
- Prototype your designs with interactions.
- Test on mobile phones.
- Send your designs for feedback & commenting.
- Export production ready assets.
- Create your first UX brief & persona.
- Create quick wireframes.
- How to use premade UI kits.
- Learn professional workflow tricks & shortcuts.
- You will get the finished files so you never fall behind
- Downloadable exercise files
- Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew
- All the techniques used by UX professionals
What is the target audience?
- This course is for beginners.
- Aimed at people new to the world of design & user experience.
- No previous Adobe XD experience is necessary.
- For anyone that needs to add ‘UX Design’ to their portfolio.
Daniel Walter Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I 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.
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Transcript
All right, we're at the end, you made it, I'm here, we're both here. XD is awesome. So, we are finished now.
Couple of things, is, any comments, use the comments underneath your pages. I'm pretty good at replying. Also, the projects, go and do the class project, leave the link. Leave the JPEGs and comment on anybody else's as well. That sort of feedback really helps everybody get a bit better.
The other things are, other courses that you might do. I've got courses, probably the main one is 'How to become a UX Designer'. Go check out that course. That goes through a lot more of the theory of the course, of UX. It will go through user research and user testing. We've kind of done the middle bit, the hands-on tools based XD UI design course but the other course, we'll go through more of the theory.
Other courses that might be useful, there's Illustrator and Photoshop option for doing a similar sort of thing. So UI design for Illustrator, and Web design for Photoshop. Go check out those. If you’re interested in doing a bit more web design, or getting started with web design, there's a lot of Dreamweaver courses. It allows you to prototype in XD, and they actually go and build the website at the end. So go check out those ones.
Other things is that Instructor HQ has been the project that we worked on during this course. If you are, or want to become an online video course instructor, and you're looking for a platform, check out instructorhq.com and sign up for them as part of the process. It's a pretty cool website, at least. So go check out that.
The last thing is that XD is a newish product for Adobe. So there's lots of features that we really want. So go check out-- it's called adobexd.uservoice.com. You can up vote features like other people. You can suggest features. It just gives them a priority level of what needs to get done next, so that we can make XD better for everyone.
All right, that's it. The end of the course, end of video-ing. Bye. Not really sure what to do at the end here. I'm going to say goodbye. Bye now.
