Introduction to Adobe XD Essentials training course
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Course info
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 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.
Certificates
We’re awarding certificates for this course!
Check out the How to earn your certificate video for instructions on how to earn yours and click the available certificate levels below for more information.
How to earn your certificate
Work your way towards your certificate for this course by following these simple steps.
- Watch the course videos
- Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
- Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
- Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz (Merit level courses only)
- Complete the Distinction Certificate Project (Distinction level courses only) - look out for the video marked with
- Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
- Request your certificate when you've completed the requirements for the certificate level you're working towards
Good luck!
Pass certificates
We’re awarding ‘Pass’ level certificates for this course.
You can work your way towards your ‘Pass’ certificate by following these simple steps.
- Watch the course videos
- Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
- Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
- Don’t forget to request your certificate when all your projects are complete
Good luck!
Merit certificates
We’re awarding ‘Merit’ level certificates for this course.
You can work your way towards your ‘Merit’ certificate by following these simple steps.
- Watch the course videos
- Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
- Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
- Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
- Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects
Good luck!
Downloads & Exercise files
Transcript
Hi there, my name is Dan, and I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor. Now together, you and me, are going to learn how to use Adobe XD. Now, this UI/UX design tool is going to help us create beautiful user interfaces as well as streamlining our user experience. During this course, we're going to use an actual freelance project I'm working on. The project needs both a web interface and a mobile app. So it's going to give you a really good understanding of how to run your own potential UX project. And my course here is aimed at people new to Design, and those experienced. We'll start right at the beginning and move our way through, just step by step. First up, I'll show you how to construct a good brief and persona. Then you'll learn how to create some super wire frames. From there, you'll learn how to implement colors and images properly in your design. You'll learn the dos and don'ts for choosing fonts for websites and mobile apps. We'll also cheat a little by exploring pre-made UI kits to speed up our work flow. We'll build and prototype both our website design and mobile app design connecting the pages, and adding full interactivity ready for use and testing. I'll share with you all of the secret tricks inside Adobe XD that will really help you speed up all those repetitive tasks. All the way through to exporting the right files and creating your own design space. At the end, I've got a project for you to help you develop your skills and so you've got something ready for your portfolio. So I hope you are ready to upgrade yourself and join me to learn Adobe XD. Yes, that's a fake plant from my gear. You're welcome to the store, and they look great and you're like, "It's going to look good in the office," then you get it home and it's a fake plant.
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