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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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In this course, what we're going to do is look at setting up our Illustrator... for working with web and app design. There's couple of things we need to change... because at the moment, by default, when you install it... and when you're using it, it's kind of assuming... you're dealing with print based stuff...
so it's using physical measurements like mm, cm, or inches. So we need to go off and change a few things. The first thing we're going to do is-- Let's open up a new document, let's go to 'File', 'New'. There's a lot along the top here, we'll go to 'web' and we're going to start with 'Common', and just click 'Create'. What's going to happen is, it's going to default... so there are a few things we need to change.
To do it, we go to 'Illustrator CC', 'Preferences'... and we're going to 'Units' first. If you're on a PC, it's under 'Edit', 'Preferences'. So it's 'Edit', and all the way down the bottom here... it will say 'Preferences'... On the Mac it's here...
and we're going to go to 'Units'. So the first thing to change is 'General'. Yours is probably going to be set to inches if you're in America. And if you're anywhere that doesn't use inches... it's going to be set to mm, or cms. We need to change it to 'Pixels', that is the measurement...
we use when we're dealing with UI design, so pick 'Pixels'. Same with the stroke, it deals with points traditionally... but we need to deal with pixels, and same with the 'Type'. The fonts are designed to use pixel sizes rather than-- but they aren't far off. Pixels and points aren't that far off in terms of measurements... but use pixels.
Let's click 'Ok'. The other thing we need to do is... get our document set up the same in terms of our workspace. You can see here, mine's all kind of mixed up... because I've been messing around with it. What you need to do is, go along the top here, go to 'Window', 'Workspace'...
and yours is probably set to 'Essentials'... so it looks something like that... but we're going to go to 'Window', 'Workspace'. And let's set it up to 'Web', unsurprisingly. And you can see, if yours is still mixed up like mine... what we can do is we can go back to 'Web'...
it does say 'Web' but we're going to say 'Reset Web'. What it does is it kind of resets. It's kind of a web space, It's kind of annoying, go away. So that's the interface to make sure yours looks like mine... so we can move on.
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