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.
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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All right. In this tutorial we're going to export our different screens or our different art boards so that we can put 'em into A PDF so that we can send them off to the client to see, or for our web designer to maybe give us a costing on. Um, yeah, just a nice way to make a PDF straight from Illustrator. Let's go and do that now. Okay, so we've made our super stupendous amazing designs. Okay?
Now we've gotta get them out to our client to show them or maybe to our web designers to show them the kind of mockup we're looking to do. So we, yeah, we're gonna kind of just export the screens or the artboards first, okay? Rather than the little itty bitty elements. It's really easy to do in the new version of Illustrator, if you're using an earlier version, boo, okay? You're gonna have to, uh, it's not too hard. You can go file, save as, um, and go through and save all the different artboards.
But there's this new version. If you've gotta export, there's this thing called export for screens, which is really cool. And if it's on assets, it's not what I want. I want boards. Okay? And it's just gonna export these three, um, yeah, three different pages separately, okay?
You can export them together as well. And what you can decide on is what kind of file you want. So I want all of them together. Or actually, I want a full document. Okay? One, maybe a one pager to send to them, or I want 'em separate pages on A PDF and what I want 'em to be, where it says Format, you can go down to PDF, and that's probably the easiest shareable one that we can email to somebody.
Okay? And where's it gonna go? Uh, I'll put mine in the exercise file so you can see. And I'm gonna click export, kick back, relax, and hopefully there is there. Okay, I've got a desktop, a mobile, and a tablet version. Okay?
Open 'em up. It's pulling the names from the art boards that I gave them. Awesome. Lovely. And if you want to stick them together and you're in something like Acrobat Pro here, you can go over to where it says organized pages, and you can say, insert from file and find those other two pages where you desktop exercise files, you and you, and stick them in here, okay? Reorder them.
And I'll save this one. And that can be, you know, just a one page document. Now, when people open it, they can go through mobile, tablet, and uh, desktop, all in one go. Alright? So that's exporting the whole, like the whole look and feel. This is not the end of it.
Okay? This is good for the client to sign off or for the web designer to get an idea of what you're doing. But next of all, we need to export all the little different pieces separately so that we can use them on our website.
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