Align & distribute icons in Illustrator for web design

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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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Transcript

Hello, UI designers. What we're going to do now is get these icons just kind of aligned nicely, and balanced in these columns. Alright, let's go do it.

First up, I want to turn my guides back on, that's 'Command ;', or 'Control ;' on a PC. Let’s zoom out a little bit, and I'm going to go 'Command 1', or 'Control 1' on a PC to go to full screen, because I want to get a sense of how big I want these to be, and I think these guys are a bit too large for social icons, because that's the size it's going to be displayed at for a website, so I'm going to make mine a little smaller.

The order of them? The way that this works is, let's put-- Facebook, say is my most important one, and let's say Twitter's next in. Just give them kind of a rough order, doesn't have to be beautiful, and then your last one. The first one and the last one are important. So I'm going to get these guys to span one-- What's that, 4 columns. 

So we've got them in some of order after each other, I'm going to select all of them. Then, along the top here, if you can't see this, say you're working on a really tiny screen, you might have to go to 'Window', 'Align', and there's a whole panel that opens up, or you can use the one on top here, it's up to you. So what I'd like to do first of all is probably get them to align horizontally, so I get vertical and horizontal mixed up every single time, you might be the same. So I'm going to click on this, just so that they're all lined up. Can you see that, all lined up nicely. And then, there's this one called 'Distribute Horizontally'. I know this because I’m reading it from the toolbar there, but let's horizontally distribute, and let's click on it, and it just spreads them up evenly. Cool. So that's how to line them up, and distribute them.

One last thing before you go, just so it’s-- It's not relative to what we're doing right here, but it will become useful for you at some stage. At the moment, by default it's 'Aligning to Selection', which is cool, it's doing exactly what we want it to do, but say you want it to align it to the Artboard, think of that and ‘Align it to the page’. I'm going to group these guys, so they're grouped together. Now I want to say, 'Align', but it's going to do it to the Artboard, so it means, when I click 'Align to the Center' horizontally, it's going to align to the center of my Artboard, and you can see that's quite useful as well.

Remember, it’s the last thing you do, so I'm going to turn my ‘Back to Selection’, and I'm going to go to 'Undo' to put them back where they were, and I might 'Ungroup' them again, because I don't need them grouped.

Alright, so that is aligning and distributing in Illustrator.

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