For those who are beginners in UI design, there may be some concerns about what UI does, or whether they can successfully switch to such a position. Today, we will focus on what UI does, and how to avoid detour and learn UI quickly.
Question 1: what does UI design do? What do I need to learn?
1. What does UI design do?
UI is the abbreviation of User Interface(User Interface). UI design refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and beautiful Interface of software.
We generally refer to UI visual design, mainly responsible for the color, layout, icon, font design of APP, Web, H5 and other pages. However, with the continuous development of the Internet, pure visual work has begun to reduce day by day, the industry requires UI designers to understand some knowledge of interaction design and product, that is, to understand User experience design (UE in China, UX in foreign countries) (full-stack designers even need to understand code). The final product of UI design is high fidelity visual draft + page annotation + cut map.
Due to cost considerations, some small to medium sized companies and startups have UI designers responsible for graphic design, such as posters, brochures, logos, etc. So, UI designers who know graphic design or hand-drawing are a plus, but not a requirement, not a worry.
2. What UI design needs to learn?
The main contents to be learned include the use of tools and software and the cultivation of design thinking.
[Tools and software]
I mainly use PS, Sketch, Ai, and Axure, AE and other software. About the use of software, can look for a few related pictures and texts on the Internet or video tutorial to learn, the best is [basic example tutorial], must be combined with basic example analysis.
【 Design thinking 】
If the design is compared to the practice of martial arts, design techniques are fists and feet, and design thinking is the inner work of the mind. Excellent design has its internal skill mind method as the support, then how to cultivate internal skill? Read a book! I recommend three kinds of books to you
The first category, basic entry level, designers that everyone reads. Examples include Design by Design, Design Psychology, Simplicity, and Don’t Make Me Think. If you haven’t read it, you can read it for popularization.
The second type, typesetting. For example, “Layout Design”, “Design Elements”, “Layout Design principles” and “Western Fonts”. The presentation of the design ultimately comes down to every page, point, and line. Typesetting ability or we need to learn.
The third category: psychological. Games like Game Change, Priceless, Mob, etc. Psychology knowledge about human nature/cognition/motivation/motivation/groups can also be helpful to design.
Question two: zero foundation wants to learn UI design, is self-study good or sign up for class?
Make clear above all a bit, no matter be self-taught still sign up for a class, have its profit and inadequacy place. Below I give you do a simple analysis, for your reference and choice.
1. About self-study
Benefits of self-study:
(1) It can exercise the habit of active learning and self-learning ability, and can control the length, progress and difficulty of learning independently;
(2) Self-study can save high tuition fees, transportation costs, living expenses and many other costs, reduce economic pressure.
Shortcomings of self-study:
(1) People are isolated and lack of opportunities to communicate with others. Difficulties encountered in learning may take a long time to solve, or even cannot be solved effectively;
(2) It is difficult to systematically learn the knowledge system and experience skills of UI design, and easy to take many detours.
2. About signing up for classes
Benefits of signing up for classes:
(1) Follow the teacher’s course, will systematically learn the UI knowledge system, step by step, from the shallow to the deep master UI design;
(2) When encountering problems, you can consult teachers or classmates in time to avoid detours;
(3) Homework can train my hands-on ability, while virtual projects can train my ability to communicate and cooperate with others.
Shortcomings of class registration:
1, generally need to pay high tuition fees (more than ten thousand tuition fees have been very common), need a certain economic foundation, if there can be tuition installments or pay after learning, relatively better;
2. Reliable training institutions need to be selected from various aspects. Some training courses put more emphasis on profit than education itself, but the teaching quality is not satisfactory. As far as possible to choose the brand of large institutions, credit is guaranteed.
Question 3: how do UI beginners learn effectively?
Such questions beginners ask more, there are three suggestions:
1, see
In order to improve your aesthetic, you need to read a lot of other people’s good apps and web works. Dribbble, Behance, Pinterest and other design sites can easily find a lot of good works.
In addition to UI design, graphic, photography, 3D, hand-painted and other world-class works can also be seen, found and collected. After a period of time, review these works, if found three months ago collection of works is very low, congratulations, that your aesthetic improvement!
2, to do more
When you have seen a lot of good work, you probably still can’t design, so the next thing you need to do is practice, the first stage is copying.
I would like to recommend several apps with a sense of design for copying practice: Rhino Story, Light and Want to Go. The design of these apps is simple and fresh, and it is easy for beginners to use them. At the same time, you can try to learn some design specifications, such as the iOS Human-computer Interaction Guide, which is the content that UI designers need to master. It is recommended to read it carefully.
After copying a few works, you can enter the second phase – Redesign. Redesign your iOS interface or redesign a wechat with your own ideas and ideas. If you like to play Onmyoji, you can design your own version of the onmyoji interface, or even replace the characters.
In the process of learning, if you encounter a problem that you cannot solve, you can turn to Baidu or Google. If it is a big problem, you can divide it into several small problems and solve them one by one.
3, think about
In the process of seeing and doing, design techniques are only a small part of learning UI, but more to understand the ideas and principles behind design. For example, why did the product define blue as the dominant color? Why magnify and bold that number? What is the structure and layout of the entire page? What are the goals of the design? And so on.
Keep thinking, keep asking yourself why, only in this way, in the future work and creation process, make the design reasonable, stand the scrutiny of others, appear more professional, so as to gain recognition and respect, better use of design to solve problems.
This article is from: UI Headline (UICner)
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