Your first project - Adobe Illustrator CC 2017

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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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All right, it is project time, homework time, professional development time, whatever you might 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, because you've been following me step by step through this course, which is amazing, and you’ll get the ideas, but it's only about your own practice, where you have to think for yourself, on to your own problems, so this little project I'm going to set for you-- I bet you, the people that do this are the ones that are going to remember, probably later. If you are serious, do this little project, send it in to me, I'd love to see what you do. I’m just saying, it’s a little task to do. I've already written it down.

So, you're going to be doing stuff for a client, it's a small cafe that’s opened in your neighborhood, it's called 'Craft Espresso'. What I'd like you to do is, go to something like 'awwwards', awards with www, three w's, .com, there'll be a link on the screen here somewhere, thanks to Tayla. 

For inspiration, I want you to go do a desktop, a tablet, and a mobile version for them. And I want you to make their logo, and I want you to use the Pen tool or the Shape Builder tool, to build some sort of vector logo, and put their name next to it. I'd like you to use colors for the logo, and for the site. I want you to pick some stuff from adobe color, so, color.adobe.com, got another link. Go check that out, pick a color swatch that you're going to use, you can use your own, but you might be new to color picking, so pick that.

Next thing you need to do is, I want you to use two fonts, no more than two, so you have to be precise in your picking, and I want you to pick them from Google Fonts, so I want you to be able to download them, install one in your machine, and you'd be able to use them.

Other things I want you to do is, I want you to use images. Cafes, and coffee shops, there should be some good quality free commercial use, you’re still only studying, so doesn't really matter, but go to freeimages.com, get images wherever you like, take them yourself, go get them back, go get them from there if you want for your site. I want to see that done.

I want to see you create at least one custom icon using the Shape Builder and Pen tool as well, some sort of icon on the site. And I want you to export all the stuff at the end there, so go through that process of exporting everything that is that vector shape, or pars, or scalable. I want that to be in SVG. And any sort of photographs that you're using, I want those to be JPGs. And I want you to export some of the css’ around. So mainly, the headings, and your paragraph text. And maybe you got a 'call to action' button, 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. There's a couple of different ways. You can post screen shots of everything, it’s probably all that's necessary. Especially I want to see your designs, I want of kind of see them, see how you're doing, offer any advice. Just keep me in the loop of what you're up to. 

So that is your project. I want you to go through those lists, and make sure you include all of that, and build yourself a little thing that you can use for your portfolio.

All right, I'll see you in the next video.

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