Learn UI Design Information

LET ME SAVE YOU SOME TIME. Honestly, there’s only one reason to read anything on this page, and it’s this: you want to learn how to create great-looking user interfaces.

If that’s not you, you can bounce along now. No hard feelings.

If you’re anything like I was, you find UI design to be confusing and open-ended. The advice out there seems vague, contradictory, and theoretical (rather than practical).

When you look at design topics like typography or color, you’re overwhelmed.

And when you see beautiful designs, they seem to be some mix of:

• Subjective
• Arbitrary
• Easy to recognize, but difficult to create

These feelings are all too familiar to me.

When I was a developer and PM, I felt this way constantly. I saw tons of great designs. I could even tell you which I liked best. But when it came to recreating something similar for myself, I was hopeless.

I saw UI designers as magical creatures who sprinkle mysterious design dust over any wireframe and make it shine. It seemed like some art school voodoo that was completely inaccessible to others – myself included.

THE HARD WAY

When I learned UI design, I had to do it the hard way. Largely self-taught, making progress an inch at a time. In the end, I learned the aesthetics of apps the same way I’ve learned any creative endeavor: cold, hard analysis. And shameless copying of what works. I’ve worked 10 hours on a UI project and billed for 1. The other 9 were the wild flailing of learning.

During that time, I came to have a disdain for the theory-heavy tripe that plagues so much design writing. You know what I’m talking about? Stuff like:

• Color theory (in reality, no designers really use it)
• The golden ratio (seems insightful, doesn’t help)
• Grids (less practical than you’d expect, given the airtime they get)

Who is this course for?

• You’re eager to learn and practice UI design
• You’ve tried designing something before – and it didn’t come out so great
• You know learning UI design will add value to your career (thousands of dollars or more)
• You’re self-motivated when it comes to learning – after all, no one’s standing over your shoulder telling you to do your homework
• You’ve got some interest in tech (the more you enjoy geeking out about software, the quicker you’ll learn)

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