Introduction Course
Use XD to get a job in UI Design, User Interface, User Experience design, UX design & Web Design.
What you will learn
- Become a UX designer.
- Become a UI designer.
- You will be able to start earning money from your XD Skills.
- Build a UX project from beginning to end.
- You will have a project of your own to add to your portfolio.
- Learn to design websites & mobile phone apps.
Requirements
- You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
No prior knowledge or experience with Adobe XD is required.
Course Description
Are you looking to get into the world of UI/UX but you don’t know where to start? This course will allow you to add UX designer to your CV & start getting paid for your new skills.
Throughout the course I’ll invite you to participate in a real-life freelance project which I’m working on. It’s a project that requires a fresh website and mobile app interface. This will prepare you for dealing with real world projects if you choose to move towards a UX/UI career path.
This course is aimed at people interested in UI/UX Design. We’ll start from the very beginning and work all the way through, step by step. If you already have some UI/UX Design experience but want to get up to speed using Adobe XD then this course is perfect for you too!
First, we will go over the differences between UX and UI Design. We will look at what our brief for this real-world project is, then we will learn about low-fidelity wireframes and how to make use of existing UI design kits.
We’ll go over all of the essential tools necessary for creating excellent wireframes, including: type, colours, icons, Lorem ipsum, artboards, prototyping, models and popups, symbols and repeat grids. We will even make use of the new prototyping app so that you can experience your prototype on your mobile device.
There are two class projects for you to complete during this class, these will help develop your skills and will give you something for your own portfolio.
Who is the Course For?
Anyone who wants to start using Adobe XD in their career & get paid for their user experience design skills.
This course is for beginners, newbies & amateurs in the field of UX design.
Featured Review
Denise Redmond (2 courses, 1 review)
a year ago
Peter is an amazing tutor. He explains everything clearly and simply. Would highly recommend training with BigRockDesigns.
Course Content
- Getting started with your Adobe XD project
- What is UI vs UX - User Interface vs User Experience vs Product Designer
- How wide should my website or app be in Adobe XD?
- Working with existing UI kits in Adobe XD
- Free icons for your Adobe XD & UX UI projects
- Adding footers & Lorem Ipsum to our XD wireframe
- New Pages & Artboards in Adobe XD
- How to create a Popup Modal or popup box in Adobe XD
- How to make & use symbols in Adobe XD
- Production Video - Left Nav
- Using the repeat grid in Adobe XD
- Updating symbols & problems with using repeat grids
- Prototype Trick to save time in Adobe XD
- Navigation tricks & tips in Adobe XD
- Tricks for using colors in Adobe XD
- How to create gradients in Adobe XD
- How to use Character Styles in Adobe XD
- Font & Text tips tricks in Adobe XD
- Adding our first Plugin Lorem Ipsum to Adobe XD
- Creating realistic buttons in Adobe XD with paste properties
- Working with stokes & lines in Adobe XD
- Learn to drawing with the pen tool in Adobe XD
- Drawing practise with the pen tool in Adobe XD
- Production Video with some drawing tips
- Working with images and CC Library connection
- Adobe Stock connection to find similar image for XD project
- Free images to use in your XD mockups
- Masking & Opacity & Blurring background images
- Plugin - Content Generator in Adobe XD
- Plugin - UI Faces adding random profile photos to XD
- Plugin - PhotoSplash automatically import Unspash images
- How to export code in XD for engineers using Design Specs
Meet Your Instructor
Peter Meehan
As a certified Adobe instructor (ACI), Peter Meehan has worked with clients for over 15 years, building his technical and teaching skills to provide training in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator and other Adobe software.
Peter has worked with over 1000 firms to help them develop their graphic or social media offerings and thereby improve their businesses, or with individual clients to improve their job prospects or to set up their own companies.
