Production video - finalizing nav, hero box and fonts

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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.

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Howdy there in this production video. A production video just means  I'm not really doing anything new. I'm just gonna be filling in the holes for our design  and you can watch or you can skip it along. It's all right. Okay. So this is what we're gonna get to at the end of this video.

We're gonna be putting in some texts and some colored boxes  and, but we know how to put texts and color boxes in. So let's go and do that now. Cool. So first up is let's draw our little  buttons on the top here. You could just leave them as text. Okay.

But what I wanna do is grab my rectangle tool, okay. And draw out kind of a button thing that fits in there. Now I'm gonna use my colors that we downloaded, okay? The BYOL portfolio colors. Okay? And what color do I want to be?

Yeah, that green's kind of cool. And I'm gonna right click him and say, uh, now  before we went, arrange we send it back. If we send him to the back, goodbye. He's behind, uh, the navigation, kind of just see him there. So I've undone it. So edit, undo.

What I'm gonna do is there's an option in here  that says arrange and send. Instead of send it back, which is all the way at the back,  send it backwards, just back behind. Kind of like the guy in front of him. I'm gonna install this guy in here. Yeah, he's about the right size tip tap. And I'm gonna make a copy of this guy  and keep them banged up together.

Am I? Might do. Okay. And, but I'm gonna use that kind of red color for it. Okay? I'm gonna right click, uh, a range.

So backwards sometimes there's a couple of guys in between  and backwards doesn't work. Uh, you gotta keep going. Send backwards. You can see this is a shortcut. Send backwards. Okay, I'm gonna do that.

Okay. Till I work it all out. Great. So that guy needs to be in the center. Cool. So zoom out a little bit.

Command one. Okay. To get it to be actual size. Actually I'm gonna do that one more time. And I'm gonna put in my big, kind  of like hero box at the top here. So I'm gonna turn on my guides again,  gonna grab the rectangle tool  and we're gonna look at images in a separate video.

Okay? But I'd bring in my image now,  but we're just gonna put in a big colored box, send it  to the back and look at putting in the rest of my type. So let's build it out. I'm gonna grab my type tool. I'm gonna drag out my box. It's gonna cover not exactly sure how many yet,  but I definitely know it's, I got my text,  my inspirational, amazing.

Hire me as a trainer,  uh, or as a designer even. Okay? UX designer,  great font size. I kind of like it. That's looking all right. It's gonna be white because I'm gonna put a reasonably  dark image behind it.

Actually, it's gonna be that kind of off white  that I've been using that off white's in here as well. They center color, so you can use either of them. Great. And what I wanna do is I probably want to insert it by, uh,  one of these columns, okay? And you can do that in web design easy enough. You can say, leave that one empty  and then start this text box a little bit further along.

Okay? I'm gonna have some little bit of type above that. I'm gonna leave that later in the tutorial. This guy needs to get a little bit lower. I'm using my black arrow just to drag it down a bit. I'm gonna put a white line underneath it, Y  because I like the idea of it.

Okay? So I'm gonna give my line segment tool The moment  doesn't really matter what kind of fill it has,  but it definitely matters what color stroke we have. And I'm using that off white again. Okay? And I'm gonna click it across  and it's gonna go across these. I'm gonna hold shift to make sure it goes straight.

And how many pixels? Probably just  one pixel's gonna look fine. Remember, I turn the grids off on, on, just  to get a sense of it all. Yeah. Like it there. Now I'm gonna do a button underneath.

It's gonna look exactly the same as this,  so I'm gonna steal it, copy and paste it. You, and it's gonna be my like, call to action. Hire me please. Okay, so I'm gonna zoom in a little bit. Yep. Bit bigger.

I'm probably gonna use the same font size. Okay. And this one's gonna say let's talk. I think everyone writes things like, uh, let's get a coffee. Uh, let me help you. You can think of your own colloquial  disarming version.

One thing I've noticed when I'm in here,  can you see this is a stroke around the outside. So I've clicked on this. There's actually that off white  around the outside of this. It's got the green fill, but I'm gonna turn the off white  to a red line, which means it's got no  stroke and it kind of lines up. Still doesn't line up perfectly,  does it sometimes drag it off, dragging it back. That looks perfect now.

Lovely. Okay. Anything else I wanna do? No, that's kind of like got a lot  of the core stuff that I want in there. And actually,  one last thing while we're spending ages doing this is I'm  gonna copy and paste that text, okay? And I'm gonna put it up here  and there's a bit of copy that I want to go in there.

I am gonna have this little thing that says  I'm currently available for work. I'm gonna use that yellowy color. Um, I'm gonna move it along  and I'm gonna put in an ellipse here, like a little circle. I'm gonna put a tick in. We'll save the tick for later on  because I'm gonna show you how to do that in the symbols,  um, part of the video series. But for the circle hold, uh, hold down the rectangle tool.

Grab the ellipse tool,  and if you just drag out a random one, it's gonna be okay. You'll probably wing it, okay? But if you hold down shift while you're dragging it out,  it'll make it a perfect circle while you're driving. If you were driving, uh, it's been a long day. Okay? So, uh, it's gonna be a kinda a circle in here.

And, um, we're gonna fill it with this kind  of like lighter green. It's gonna make more sense when we change  this image out in the background. All right? Uh, command one. Everything's the right size, I think. I feel like it might be that circle's a bit big,  but we'll change 'em later on.

Alright, uh, that's enough for the production video. Let's go off and start doing the next bit.
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