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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.
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
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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So, what is Illustrator's role in this whole business? As a web designer you might decide you finish... at the limits of where Illustrator stops... and what you'd be expected to do-- say you're the designer... you'd have to work with the developer, or a web designer... somebody who does the HTML in CSS...
because Illustrator itself doesn't actually make websites. It designs it, the look and feel, gets everything in the right position... the colors, the fonts... and we use that as a template to build that in code. That's where you might finish. You might just hand over at the end here.
If I was your web designer... I'd be expecting a bunch of jpegs, pngs, and svgs... so just images, and I'd be wanting you to tell me what fonts they are... what colors they are, what the sizes are... what the color boxes are, how far they're away from each other. I'll be wanting that stuff.
And that comes from you to me, as CSS. And we'll look in this course how that is made. You might decide to go on a bit further... and you want to do the whole web design process. What I'll do is... I'll turn this particular design that we're making here in Illustrator...
we'll actually build it in Dreamweaver as well... just to make it a nice complete series so if you are more print based... and you just want to stay that side, Illustrator is where you finish... but if you want to move on a little bit more... and maybe get a little introduction to codes... maybe not scary as you think, I hope...
you'll move into something like Dreamweaver... and build out the full site in that. So that is the role of Illustrator.
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