How to learn UI design correctly from scratch

0Basic self-learning UI designYou need to understand what UI design is, what you need to learn, and then make a plan and then find relevant information to learn, you can't learn it if you learn it randomly, UI design must master the software: PS, AI, AE, DW, etc., you can first find some tutorials to learn software.

Find this tutorial to follow along, or follow the tutorial online.

Basic theories and basic skills cannot be ignored, and the learning of any major is learned from basic theories and basic skillsBe sure to practice consistently! Design and programming are actually skills that need to be practiced by hands, and it is completely impossible to just read books and fill your mind with theories.

It is very beneficial to practice hand-drawing in a planned way and improve your drawing ability to do design, including UI design. You can start by copying: some examples from textbooks, existing excellent interfaces, works of excellent designers, etc.; On this basis, from time to time, you can add your own thoughts and emotions to be original; 2.

You should practice more, insist on doing more, and give yourself a little more practical experience, and you will definitely gain and learn a lot of experience and skills that are not in the textbooks; 3.Look at domestic and foreign designs, copy or borrow, and find your own inspiration, because often when you don't have a certain foundation, you are not inspired. There are works on the painting master, and there are free ** can be learned.

The first is to learn the basics of software and vector illustration drawing, including Photoshop image processing software, Illustrator vector graphics processing software, CorelDraw vector software, InDesign typesetting software, Cinema4D three-dimensional software, vector illustration drawing.

The second is to learn graphic design, including the three major components and design foundations, business creative thinking, common graphic promotional material design, brand design - CIS, book binding design and typesetting, product packaging design, pre-printing and production technology.

The third is to learn the design and production, including marketing page design, thematic design, enterprise, portal, web front-end and whole site production, H5 marketing design and interactive effect, mobile layout.

Fourth, we must learn smart device interaction, including APP introduction and product analysis, multi-system icon design, APP demand analysis and hand-drawn prototype diagram, product interaction design and surplus, three platform design specifications, annotation, cut picture and object tour, a full set of original APP product project practice, AE dynamic design, smart TV, smart watch interface design, visual specifications and packaging, etc.

1. If you are a complete novice, then start with the most basic hand-drawn, PS, AI software functions, in this era of such a developed network, as long as you move your fingers, Sogou, with your serious learning attitude, the knowledge will be yours. PS There are many functions in it,Novices can search the Internet for the use of its functions,Of course, it's not just to see,It's more about getting hands-on,You must know that it's useless to use your brain,You only have to practice more and do more,In order to fully master it。 In fact, the function of PS is very simple to learn, you just need to learn the tools commonly used in UI design, you don't need to learn well.

2. When you master the PS, you can start collecting. Dribbble, Behance, UI Parade, Petal.com, and many more are just a few of the things you need: mobile interfaces, web interfaces, icons, etc.

At this stage, all you need is to collect, look, collect, look and then after a while go back and look at what you collected, you will find that there are a lot of things that are not very good-looking, and your aesthetic ability has also improved at that time.

3. Then all you need to do is copy more. Take the interfaces, icons, logos, etc. you have collected, as long as you can copy them. Actually, copying is good, but you have to think at the same time as copying, such as:

Why is this icon here? Why does this rectangle have to be so big? Think about it and you'll find that you understand what the author had in mind when he was creating.

At this stage, it's time to change the thinking at hand. Here I suggest that you copy at least one every day, whether it is a banner, icon, the interface is good, and it is good to make a little progress every day.

4. Understand the use of tools, but also be able to design specifications or theories. So in UI China, the best network and so on will share a lot of their own design experience, theory or something, you can take a look at it when you have time, carefully read the content shared by others, don't be a fool who can only use software, to enrich your knowledge in all aspects of this field. Of course, I hope that when you study, you will remember to buy a notebook.

5. When you copy to a certain extent, you can choose your commonly used software to try to redesign, because it is the southernmost software interface around you, and you can try to integrate your ideas into your ears. Then you can go to find some design seniors to give you some opinions, or post them on the design, humbly accept their opinions and suggestions, and then modify, so that repeated design and progress.

Self-learning is a must-have for every UI, interaction, and even product manager.

In particular, skills such as software and documentation can be searched and learned on the Internet by yourself, and it is a waste of time and money to spend money to find a teacher to learn software operation and the like. The specific stages that you will go through and master are approximately:

1. Master the software, such as my colleague's recent 100-person 100-day check-in activity, and now many students have joined. The whole event is also free and you can see it on Xiaohongshu. This requires you to have the spirit of constantly solving problems and delving into details, and most of the time you need to search and solve them yourself.

2. Understand the design specificationsThe current interface design is based on the design specifications of iOS or Android. Apple and Microsoft have gone through years of iteration and have also cultivated users' habits and aesthetics of the interface, so it's important for you to understand the design specifications.

3. Benchmark excellent designThe upper limit of your design ability depends on your aesthetic upper limit. Only by seeing a better work and understanding why it is so good can you break through yourself and make better works. So, you need to keep going to the Internet (dribbble, behance, etc.) and analyze them.

4. Reserve project experience and works.

Good designers will have their own excellent portfolio. The purpose of the portfolio is not only to prove that you have good visual ability, but also to present your thinking about solving problems, experience systematic research, divergence and convergence, find opportunities, take users as the center, and give reasonable design solutions.

Beginners, there are also ways to get started with UI design quickly. First of all, we need to establish a design concept, all design is not just to operate the software, but to have a design concept, have the ability to design. So the difficulty is to learn the design ability.

1. What is UI design?

UI design is the product of the birth of the mobile Internet, which is the design of the APP interface of the mobile Internet tool and any tool in the APP used by the user. For example, if we open the app in the mobile phone, the following picture is a UI design.

UI design - to provide everyone with content that meets the requirements of the app, as well as easy operation and beautiful interface. In fact, doing UI design seems simple, but it is actually a work with strong comprehensive ability.

2. Learning of design software.

As mentioned earlier, learning to design slag is not learning software, but software is an auxiliary tool for our design ideas, so software still needs to be learned. But Mr. Jiang does not support self-learning software, because what you learn by self-learning is only software, and people with zero foundation still can't design.

You can sign up for a class to learn, and the teacher will teach you how to operate the software while teaching you the design concept. The software is just a tool, it will not work automatically, so we still have to think of our own ideas, outline how to design in our heads, and then use the software to put the ideas into practice. Students who want to register for the class can send a private message to Mr. Jiang to "sign up"!

3. Learn more and practice more.

Learning more means looking at other people's works, learning to appreciate other people's works, and learning other people's design ideas and design skills from them. More practice is to improve one's hands-on ability, if you have an idea, you can use software to design, UI design is also a kind of work that requires experience accumulation.

This mainly depends on one's own consciousness and motivation to learn, and it is far from enough to rely on learning in the classroom, and the knowledge learned must be consolidated in time before it becomes one's own thing. Moreover, people with zero foundation need to combine a variety of learning methods to learn UI design.

UI design is still a bonus period for it, and it will not be saturated for a long time in the future, so as long as you make up your mind, people with zero foundation can also gain a lot in UI design.