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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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Hey, in this video we're going to look at kind of pulling colors from existing branded logos to use within your UI design. Okay? Let's say that we're doing some work for a company and you have their logo, okay? You can bring it in. Um, we are gonna go file place and in this example we're just gonna use the Google, uh, logo png, bring 'em in, okay? And let's say I want to draw some elements.
Say it's our hero box in the background here, okay? But I want to match the Google colors. Okay? Let's pretend it's some random color to start with. Not random enough, okay? With it selected, okay?
What you need to do is grab the eyedropper tool, okay? The eyedropper tool's kind of hiding down here. And all you need to do is with anything selected, just pick a color from it, okay? And you can see it'll start pulling the brand colors from that, how accurate it'll be pretty accurate, okay? And, um, let's say you want to kind of add them, but to use later, rather than having to use the eyedropper tool every time, what you're gonna do is switch to your swatches panel. Now your swatches panel, if you can't find it, it's under window down to swatches.
Okay? Turn it on. And think of swatches as pre-made pre-mixed colors ready to use. So what we are gonna do is with, let's break this blue. Okay? So that, here he is there.
What you can do is up the top here, okay? Drop down. And there's an option that says New swatch. Okay? Give it a name. I'm gonna call mine Google Blue.
Google Blue, okay. And click, you can see it's both in my library. Okay? And it's down here in my swatches library. Okay? So, um, just work your way through the colors.
Uh, grab the eyedropper tool. Red one here, new Google Red. There he is there and he's down here in your swatches panel. The reason it's kind of good to have them in your swatches, we will find it a little bit later on. You'll find that this library thing here is awesome. For most things.
It's new and it's not perfect for everything yet. So sometimes you need them in your swatches panel as well. Okay? Awesome. That's how to pull brand colors from existing logos to start using, rather going off and trying to figure out what all those colors are. Okay, there you go.
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