Am I a UI UX designer now?
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI 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.
Alright, now the question is, after this course, am I going to be a UI/UX designer? They kind of go hand in hand. They are very different things. After this course, you can say, "Yes, I am a UI designer. I can build user interfaces,” like websites that we're going to be doing, and app design, that is user interface. We use tools like Illustrator amongst other ones that you potentially could use to be a UI designer.
In terms of UX, User Experience, that is a totally bigger kind of kettle of fish, a different kind of thing. You use UI design as part of the UX designer, but there are lot of other things that make a UX designer. There's a lot more around, kind of like setting objectives, there's research, there's testing, then going through the whole build phase of a project as well.
We're not going to cover UX design in this course, I've got another full course about being a UX designer, so go check that out. This is focusing more on UI, which is a part of UX, but not the whole thing.