Go directly to the method.
-Learn while doing it
-Watch design videos to lay the foundation
-Read related design books to improve your level
-Browse design websites to improve aesthetics
The above is the three-step UI self-study. Don't ask what is going on at step 0. That is what you will do throughout your career.
0. Learn while doing
Do it while watching, do it while watching, do it while watching.
The important thing is to put it first and say it three times!
If you don't remember this sentence, I advise you to give up now, because you can't learn it well.
As for the specific hands-on method:
1. Follow the video or book, and you can design what you want.
2. Take a screenshot of your favorite design, and then design one exactly the same.
3. Go to the material website to find the feeling, and then follow the feeling to design your own picture.
These three steps should run through your entire career as long as you have not changed careers.
1. Learn basic software operations
What are the basic software?
PS, AI, AE, ARP or ink knife software, Axure, Blue Lake.
No matter who you ask, these are the answers to you. And for a self-taught beginner, it can be less, but not more.
among them:
PS is mainly used for UI design, interface design, icon design, and image processing
AI is mainly used for UI interface design, icon design, font design, and illustration design
AE is mainly used for motion design
XD or sketch is a professional vector graphics processing application for visual designers
Axure is prototyping. The so-called prototype is a frame design before the product is launched
**Blue Lake: **Blue Lake software is mainly used for label design in UI design work, including page height, width, and color value
How to learn basic software?
Watch the course and do it yourself.
It's that simple and there is no simpler way according to the current level of technology.
The following are six recommended courses for you. In order to avoid being said to be advertising, the selected courses are all free courses on station B.
**PS:**https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1A4411M729
** AI: ** https: //www.bilibili.com/video/BV1TC4y1W7tg
**AE：**https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EW411171A
**XD：**https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1a4411v7G4
**sketch：**https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zb411T7fK
**Axure：**https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV184411g7R2
2. See related design books to improve the level
Basically all courses on the market are basic courses. Don't ask me why, the real big guys don't have time to come and record lessons, usually they write articles and books.
So if you want to further refresh your design level, you must read more books.
Plane: "Graphic design rule" Author: [US] Debbie Millman Press: China Youth Publishing House
Format: "Graphic Design Beyond the Ordinary: How to Make a Layout" John McWade / Hou Jingyan (translator) / People's Posts and Telecommunications Press
Color: "Principles of Color Matching Design" Obosco Editorial Department/China Youth Publishing House
Interaction: The author of "Simplicity First: Four Strategies for Interactive Design" is [English] Colborn Press: People's Posts and Telecommunications Press
Senses: "Design Psychology" set of 4 volumes [US] Donald Norman / Mei Qiong / CITIC Press
Case: "Unbeaten Classic Design" [English] McDermott, Bayan Publishing House: China Youth Publishing House
The three UI designers of the company originally recommended more than 30 books, but when they learned that I was going to publish on Zhihu for beginners, they reduced it to these six.
The reason is: Too many recommendations are equivalent to no recommendations, and readers will not read a copy at that time.
Therefore, there is only one of these books in each category and they are all fine products.
3. Broadly browse design websites to enhance aesthetics
To put it bluntly, after you have gone through the first and second steps, you are no longer a UI design novice, and how high your achievements can be depends entirely on your personal luck.
But I personally think that no matter how it develops, it is inseparable from reading more cases and trying these eight words.
So, I recommend ten essential websites for designers:
Ten must-have websites for designers to solve all the problems you design