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45 lessons / 4 hours

Overview

UI design skills are one of the most employable opportunities of our lifetime. In this course you’ll learn how to design a professional website in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll start right at the basics of Illustrator and work our way through to building professional UI designs. This course doesn’t cover how to code a website but focuses on the design processes that professional UI designers use when working.

This is a project based class for students who are new to the world of app & web design. I created this for people nervous about changing their careers into the world of user interface design.



We’ll build a professional portfolio website. You can use this course to build your own portfolio website (the one you’ve been putting off for years). You’ll learn how to design desktop, tablet and mobile versions of your website. You’ll learn what you’ll need to deliver at the end of a project to your client.

This course is for people serious about becoming a User Interface design professional.

Know that I’ll be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

Now it’s time to upgrade your skills, get that better job, and impress your clients.


What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

  • No previous design skills are needed.

  • No previous Illustrator skills are needed. 

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 45 lectures 4 Hours 7 minutes of content!

  • You'll learn to design a website with in Adobe Illustrator.

  • User Interface essentials. 

  • 27 Completed files so you never fall behind. 

  • Learn how to wireframe at all levels

  • How to design for a responsive website. 

  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.

  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.

  • Techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web and UI design. While no previous Illustrator experience is necessary.

Course duration 4 hours

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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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.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Okay. In this video we're gonna talk about adding  color to your site. We're gonna start using something called, uh,  adobe Color cc. Okay? It used to be called cooler if you remember him,  but if you go to color.adobe.com  and you sign in with your creative cloud license,  okay, you'll get to here. If you have a pirated version,  this is not gonna work as well.

Bits of it will work, okay? Um, but we hope you got a little legit version. Um, what we're gonna do is skip, create  and go to one called Explore. And what this is really for is for people  that even experienced designers. Like I find myself leaning on the same colors every  time I do a design. Okay?

If you come to me and you're a baker  and you need a website, it's probably gonna be  green and gray at the moment. And if you are, I dunno, some international airline  and you need work done, I'm probably gonna  make it green and gray. I'm stuck in a trap of using green  and gray to escape my trap. I use this explore feature in Adobe color  and what it means is I can go in here  and we're under an explore. Um, I think by default it's on, I'm not too sure,  but go to most popular, I like it of all time. Okay.

Maybe this month. And it's just gonna give you yeah,  the things that other people are downloading, okay? The most popular colors and often  really cool stuff comes to the top. Let's go of all time. And these ones here. Yeah.

Loads of colors, okay? And what happens is, because you've logged in,  what you can do is say that you like, uh, tech office, okay? You can click on the one that says save. It's gonna say, oh, you can rename it if you like. You can say, actually I'd like you to put it into my,  remember we made that, um,  library a little earlier called Dan's portfolio. You can make a new one here,  but right to the bottom, create a new library  or just jam it into your, where is it?

My library. Okay. But I'm gonna put mine into Dan's portfolio. You could change it. Okay. That's okay.

But I'm gonna click save. And the cool thing about it is magically, hopefully if I go  to Illustrator now, uh,  and dance portfolio, sometimes you need to click that. Okay? And I'm gonna make this a little smaller. There he is, there, there's the  colors and I can start using them. Okay?

I can decide that actually I'm gonna use  that for the color. Okay? And it's just a good way to kind  of start drawing things  and you're like, okay, now things are starting  to work in terms of harmony of color. Okay? Because I've started with this kind  of templated color, I guess. Okay?

It's a good way to yeah. Get going with your colors. What you can do for this class is you can go  to the exact same site okay? And go to explore and go to search and type in BYOL. Okay? And hopefully you'll find some of the ones that I'm using.

The one I'm using in this class  is called BYOL portfolio Illustrator. Okay? And download that one  and we'll use that for this course. Um, if you are working in a, say a larger agency,  it's a great way to share brand colors. You can upload them. Um, there's a couple of different ways you can go to create  and you can go down here and say, actually, so CMYK,  you can start typing these in and change them.

Okay? And then hit save  and they end up on this explore thing. Okay? And people can search and share  and it makes it really easy Yeah. To share brand colors. So let's download the bring your own  laptop one, kind of forgot that.

Check BYOL and then click on save. Put it into Dan's portfolio. Great. Nice. Jump back into, uh, illustrator. Click the little, I don't know that Creative Cloud icon.

And there he is. There. I'm gonna click on this guy, right? Click him and say delete. Don't need you. Cool.

Um, great. So we've got our colors in. Let's move on now and look at, let's say,  'cause this is gonna be a brand for this, um,  particular fake company or fake portfolio we're doing. Um, if you've got actually specific colors  and a logo to work from, I'm gonna show you how to do  that in the next video and pull those colors through.
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