Learn how you can use design inspiration effectively, how to analyze UI designs and how to practice & experiment
You’ll learn how to consistently improve your design skills by continuously getting inspired by the offline & the digital world around you, and by building a habit around collecting design inspiration, analyzing UI designs and practicing our design craft.
What you’ll learn
- Learn a framework for developing your design skills.
- Learn how to collect design inspiration and what to collect.
- Develop an eye for good design.
- Learn how to analyze UI designs.
- Establish a workflow for researching design patterns and good practices.
- Discover the most effective ways of practicing and experimenting.
- Understand that UI design is learnable, it is not only for the “talented” ones.
Course Content
- Introduction to the course –> 2 lectures • 7min.
- Inspiration from the world around us –> 8 lectures • 32min.
- Collecting design inspiration –> 9 lectures • 42min.
- Analyzing UI designs –> 10 lectures • 51min.
- Practicing and experimenting –> 7 lectures • 40min.
- UX audit (coming soon) –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Additional resources – bonus section –> 1 lecture • 5min.
Requirements
You’ll learn how to consistently improve your design skills by continuously getting inspired by the offline & the digital world around you, and by building a habit around collecting design inspiration, analyzing UI designs and practicing our design craft.
I’ll explain how to collect and analyze designs and practice designing user flows, layouts and UI elements: I will show you some effective techniques, my favorite resources, and I’m going to give you many-many practice activities. As a result, you’ll have an approach or framework for train your designer eye on a daily basis.
Main topics
- getting inspired by the offline & the digital world around you
- collecting design inspiration
- analyzing UI designs
- practicing and experimenting
- conducting UX audits (coming soon)
This course is for your if
- you read a lot about design theory, but there is a gap between your theoretical understanding and practice, or
- you completed a design bootcamp (or you are in the process of completing one) but you don’t have a plan for developing your designer eye on a consistent basis, or you just simply
- need a systematic approach to develop your skills
So if
- You are in the process of getting into design or
- You are a designer or researcher who wants to work on UI or visual design skills
- You are a student who needs some guidance
- You just simply want to train your designer eye,
I’m confident that you’ll greatly benefit from this course.
This course is NOT
- This is not a comprehensive design curriculum, review what is included in the course before purchasing it.
- I won’t teach you how to use a certain design tool (e.g. Figma or Sketch). However, you’ll find most of the practice activities inside a Figma file, so it is easier to complete the assignments if you have a Figma account (it is free).
- The course is not about an end-to-end UX/UI design process.
My goal
I’m a design mentor and teacher with 10+ years of professional experience, and throughout my years I’ve noticed that many designers don’t know how to develop their design (UX, UI and visual design) skills effectively. They attend a bootcamp or some online courses, then they don’t really know how they can improve their design skillset.
I wish I had known these tactics and approaches when I was a beginner designer!
If you are searching for a comprehensive, A to Z design course, then this is not the one you are after. However, my suggestion is that you should still apply this as a complementary course (e.g. if you are in the process of completing a design bootcamp), I promise that you will find a lot of gems inside it!
My goal is to constantly improve the course material, the first update is going to be a new section about UX Audits!