Your first project - Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

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Course info

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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Transcript

All right. It is project time, homework time,  professional development time, whatever you want to call it. This bit is super important. I promise you. The people that I teach, I teach a lot of people. It's the people that do this like extra step.

'cause you've been following me step by step  through this course, which is amazing,  and you'll get the ideas, okay? But it's not until you put them into your own practice  where you have to think for yourself,  run into your own problems. So this little project I'm gonna set for you,  I bet you the people that do this are the ones  that are going to remember it  and the people that are, you know, if you are serious, okay? Do this little project, send it into me, okay? I'd love to see what you do. So I'm gonna set you some  little tasks to do, okay?

I've even written them down. Okay? So, um, you're gonna be doing stuff for a client, okay? It's a small cafe that's opened in your neighborhood. It, it's called Craft Espresso. So what I'd like you to do is go to something like awards,  um, awards with www, you know, so three Ws, uh, dot com.

There'd be a link on the screen here somewhere. Thanks Taylor. Um, for inspiration, I want you  to do a desktop, a tablet,  and a mobile version for them, okay? And I want you to make their logo, okay? Um, I want you to use the pen tool  or the shape builder tool, okay? To build some sort of vector logo, okay?

And put their name next to it. I'd like you to, uh, use colors  for the logo and for the site. I want you to pick some stuff from Adobe Color. So color.adobe.com. Go ahead another link. Okay?

Uh, go check that out. Pick a color swatches that you are gonna use. You can use your own, okay? But, um, you might be new to color picking, so pick that. Next thing you need, need to do is I want you to use, uh,  uh, two fonts, okay? And no more than two, okay?

So you have to be precise in your picking  and I want you to pick them from Google Fonts. I want you to be able to download them,  install 'em on your machine, and be able to use them. Other things you want you to do is I want you to use images,  cafes, and coffee shops and stuff. There should be some good quality free  commercial use, okay? You're still only studying, so it doesn't really matter,  but it's, go check out free images.com,  get images wherever you like. Take them yourself.

Um, go get them back. Go get them there if you want. Okay. For your site. I wanna see that done. I wanna see you create at least one  custom icon using the shape builder and pen tool as well.

Okay? Some sort of icon on the site. And I want you to export all your stuff at the end there. So go through that process of exporting everything that is  that vector shape, okay? Or PAs or scalable. I want that to be an SVG.

Okay? And any sort of photographs that you're using,  I want those to be JPEGs. Okay? And I want you to export some of the CSS as well. Okay? So mainly the headings, any paragraph text, okay?

Um, and maybe you've got a call to action button, okay? Things like that. I'd like a text document. Then I'd like you to zip them all up  and you can send them to me, okay? Uh, there's a couple of different ways. Um, you can post screenshots, okay?

Of everything. It's probably all that's necessary, okay? Especially I wanna see your designs, I want to kind  of see them, see how you're doing, offer any advice. Um, just, yeah, just uh,  keep me in the loop of what you're up to. So that is your project. I want you to go through those lists, okay?

Um, and yeah, make sure you include all of that  and build yourself a little thing  that you can use for your portfolio. Alright, I'll see you in the next video. All.
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