Many want to self-study UI design partners,
Bitter at the lack of a good learning plan, course outline, learning effect is very bad, spent time also did not build their knowledge system comprehensive.
The self-study UI design in the end how to learn?
Before we talk about the learning process, let's first come to a brief introduction to what is UI design and how the prospects of UI design. Because only after you understand the UI design, you know whether you are interested in it, whether it is really willing to spend time and energy to learn.
One, UI design
UI (UserInterface), Chinese name "user interface". Ps: (Baidu explanation) UI refers to the software of human-computer interaction, operation logic, the overall design of the interface aesthetics.
The wave of the Internet, whether it is the front wave, or the back wave has never stopped. You often see the "Internet +" such a combination of common interpretation of the "Internet +" is "Internet + traditional industries", but this is not a simple addition of the two, but the The use of information and communication technology and the Internet platform, so that the Internet and the traditional industry for the depth of integration, to create a new development ecology.
In this, and what is the close connection with UI?
The traditional industry to the Internet, certainly need to use an interface to display, even if it is just a simple web page, and every Internet product, whether it is PC or mobile, whether it is a traditional industry or non-traditional industry, the final presentation of the UI interface for the basis of the user to use to view. This is not only visual output, but also good interaction and user experience.
For example, let's talk about how we usually don't pay much attention to call answering.
In Apple's unlocked screen, the caller ID shows green on the right side of the phone, and red on the left side of the phone when the caller hangs up. In general, the right hand to take the phone, thumb operation, green is to answer the phone, this is our routine operation, the use of high frequency, so in the right side of the thumb closer, and hang up the phone frequency is not high, so in the left side of the far some. In terms of color experience, the red color also serves as a warning,
But if the red button and the green button were to change positions, it wouldn't really affect the vision, but it wouldn't be a good experience, and you might hang up the phone at any time by mistake.
UI is everywhere in our lives, no matter how big or small, it exists in what you see and what you touch. So UI is not just about aesthetics, it's also about visual effects and user experience. Users are very picky, the demand for visual and experience needs are constantly changing and improving. So this also creates the UI designer this does not need to knock code, but still can get a high salary of the Internet position.
Two, UI design learning plan
Many partners do not have a strict learning plan, resulting in self-study cycle is dragged to a long time, so self-study UI design, we must develop a learning plan for their own learning plan, in strict accordance with the learning plan to complete the learning objectives, in order to obtain the ultimate victory. That everyone's learning ability and skill mastery situation is different, here to share a zero-based all-weather to weekly division of the learning program. I hope that you can refer to this plan for your own situation, tailor-made UI design self-study program.
The simpler the elements are, the more a designer's basic skills are examined, if there is no hard skills and solid basic skills, it will be difficult to accurately convey the product's own tone and marketing selling points.
We all know the importance of creative thinking for designers, but we can not ignore the necessity of basic skills for designers. Only by adhering to the constant weight training and solid art foundation can we easily master various styles in the future commercial battle.
The first week: hand-drawing
The focus of hand-drawing is mainly to train the students of the structure of the form, the sense of light, the relationship between space, which is an aesthetic cultivation of the enlightenment, the most popular vector illustration and hand-drawing is closely related.
Second, three weeks: PS, AI basic software learning
From scratch to learn software, the need to use the actual case to learn, so that it is easier to get started, and the learning of UI design is not just a simple study of the software tools, a lot of people in the people think that UI design as long as they will be PS, AI, etc. can be, in fact, let through the actual case to understand the meaning of design, i.e., design thinking, creative understanding of the design behind the case, and the design is the most important thing. The meaning of the design thinking, creative understanding, is more important purpose.
But only learn to think not, we also need to strengthen the basic skills of design, the software is completely proficient in mastery, it is necessary.
Fourth and fifth weeks: graphic composition, Logo
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Mastering the graphic design in the points, lines, surfaces, and to extend to the Logo design, Logo on the one hand, including graphics on the other hand is to include fonts, so understanding of the structure of the text is very basic, as well as if this phase of the learning is very good, to receive the Logo private single, the price is high to believe.
And logo brand part of the study, to be able to Logo form, temperament, basic attributes, way of thinking, as well as the standard mapping and other in-depth study. A simple graphic through the form of deformation and the evolution of a thousand different shapes, so many changes still afraid of not designing a logo?
For example: from the shape of the beginning, a circle can be changed into a solid circle, can be changed into a hollow, can be changed into a semicircle can also be changed into an ellipse, a semicircle, then it is not to be able to associate with the egg, omelette, eggs, hats, cups of water?
Sixth week: finalize brand logo and VI manual design
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This week's focus is on the A-side thinking design, yes, it is that annoying A-side father, you need to learn to think differently.
The entire first phase of learning content is very basic, the purpose is to cultivate design thinking, as the so-called understanding of what the user wants, can not design a good product?
Week 7: Responsive website, one-screen website
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From the case to talk about the composition of the web page design, colors, fonts, functions, buttons, as well as the design specifications, typography specifications.
Week 8: Backend Data
Besides backend design, it is more about backend statistical processing, how to make it simple and clear.
Week 9: e-commerce design
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E-commerce platform home page design, every month the major shopping platforms will have a station-wide activities, the activities of the theme is different, so in fact, the e-commerce design of the talent gap is very big.
The tenth week: Taobao platform details page, background
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This part of the application for Taobao store can be their own, on the shelves of the product, any learning is not directly on the hands of the fast. Practical practice, their own to experience the norms of the major platforms, will understand more clearly.
The eleventh week: C4D, Banner
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Enter 3D training, enriching the visual effect, improve the competitiveness of the employment, more than one technology, more possibilities, which is why we have to continue to learn to improve their own reasons.
The second stage, more web page design training, focusing on mastering the interface design specifications and output specifications of the enterprise station, and according to the real needs of enterprises to design the page.
Week 12: user experience, competitor analysis, prototype diagram
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This week we started to design APP, through the data analysis to do the competitor analysis, using Axure to draw the prototype diagram of the APP.
Week 13: Icons
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Interesting icons are also an important part of a complete app design.
Week 14: Interface, Capsule
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Pop-up pages and splash pages through iconic apps.
Week 15: Interface Design
Continue to complete the APP, and learn to cut diagrams, naming, labeling, packaging, handover (front-end brothers and sisters to play or not to play depends on the content of this week's study)
Week 16: Operational Interface
Marketing and promotional user thinking training, to grasp the user's pain points to improve the overall operational interface, and to achieve the purpose of marketing and promotion. The purpose of this is to enhance the overall operation interface to achieve marketing promotion by grasping the pain points of users. This is usually done through sudden pop-ups, splash screens, etc., such as promotional pages, which increase the visual impact and promote user clicks.
Week 17: Interactive Effects
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Learning AE animation will be very good, because it can accurately convey your thoughts and demonstrate the effect you want to express. This will certainly become the popular trend of UI, do not want to be eliminated by the market, must continue to learn ah!
This stage, you can try to start designing your own APP, you can choose your favorite theme, there are no limitations, which can become a zero basis to change your portfolio content Oh.
Eighteenth week: front-end
We all know that UI designers work closely with the front-end, that as a UI designer, only understand the front-end, so that we can work together better to improve the efficiency of the work. We can learn HTML5, learn CSS3 and so on.
While the weekly division, the arrangement is full, so that the learning process is suitable for most of the zero-basic partners, weekly content, if the learning is not solid, you can properly stay on the footsteps, because everyone's ability to learn different learning mastery situation is different. Be sure to learn solid knowledge, one step at a time to move forward, in order to truly grasp the knowledge of UI design firmly.
PS design glass icon buttonIn Photoshop, you can use the text tool to add text to the image. Mastery of this tool can not only add text to the image, but also can produce a variety of special text effects. For example, the image into the text, it will produce shadows and three-dimensional slant effect, the use of text deformation tool can make the text bent or extended.
What we are talking about is the use of text tools and increase the deformation of the text method. Which through a large number of examples illustrated in PhotoshopCS2 and ImageReady in the use of text tools to produce a variety of effects.
1, set the text tool options
In PhotoshopCS2 and ImageReady in the generation of text is very simple: select the text tool, click the document with the mouse. Text Tool provides a lot of input text and text shape of the options, in adding text should be familiar with their role. Select the toolbar in the "Text Tools" item, the text tool options are displayed on the screen, in addition, in the toolbox above, the text tool has four words, that is, horizontal, straight, horizontal text mask and straight text mask, their shortcut for the T, you can hold down the SHIFTT key will be converted to this text work.
2, the establishment of a new text layer
Click on the "Create a text icon" item, click on the screen, PhotoshopCS2 automatically generate a new layer, and the text cursor is positioned in this layer. After entering the text, you can output them as vector graphics. You can also paint or apply filters to them, or rasterize the text.
After entering text, the text color that appears on the screen is the current foreground color or the color that appears on the option bar, so you can easily edit the text by using the space bar, dragging the mouse, and so on. At the same time, you can also change its position on the screen by dragging the mouse, of course, you can also insert between the text and other operations.
In the text layer there can be a lot of ways to generate text, once generated can be used in many ways to operate:
Select "Layer" | "Layer Style", you can set the style of the layer.
Choose Edit|Transform to change the angle of the text.
Use the Move tool to move or distort the text.
Choose Layer | Text | Convert to Shape to separate the text from the background layer. Once converted, use the options on the Shape toolbar to create overlapping or intersecting shapes with it.
Choose Layer | Text | Create Working Path to convert the text to a path that can be edited by the Path Editor tool.
Select Layer | Text | Rasterize to paint the text or use filters, you must first rasterize the text.
Vector-based text and rasterized text, PhotoshopCS2 generated in a layer of text is vector-based, vector text is not dependent on the resolution. That is to say, the effect of the text and the resolution of the image has nothing to do, but mainly depends on the output device, in particular, the output device dots per inch (dpi). dpi the higher, the better the text effect.
If the images generated in PhotoshopCS2 and ImageReady is used for the Web, they must be stored as a Web graphics format: or PNG, they are rasterized file format, and does not support vector text, due to the Web to download graphic text is much slower than the text, so Web designers do not use the PhotoshopCS2 to generate text images , the use of PhotoshopCS2 and ImageReady generated text is mainly used for buttons, short words or phrases.
3, using the masking option
Selected text tool in the masking option, click on the screen file, PhotoshopCS2 will produce a red overlapping mask area. In this area you can move the text by clicking or dragging. To confirm the use of the mask, click the "OK" button.
When the mask is displayed on the screen, it can be filled, scaled or distorted using the Move tool. When filling the text, the text options function like a mask over the selected text area, in order to manipulate it. After generating text with the mask, you can copy and paste it into another file or copy it into another layer.
Once the text is removed from the selection, it is locked into the background of the current layer, it is difficult to move.
4, edit text
If you want to enter large paragraphs of text and use PhotoshopCS2 paragraph formatting options, you must enter text in paragraph mode. By clicking and dragging the mouse on the screen can be used to form a text area for paragraph mode of input. Input, the cursor to the last position on the right side of each line automatically line feed. Steps to enter text as follows:
(1). Select the text tool.
(2). In the text tool options bar, select "Create a text layer". Other options can be set according to the needs of the text.
(3). Click and drag the mouse across the screen to form a text area.
(4). To exit text editing mode, click the OK button in the options bar or hit the Enter key or use Ctrl and Enter; to cancel or delete text, click the Cancel button in the options bar or hit the ESC key.
5, using the character palette
Control the text formatting using the character and paragraph palettes. In the palette to change the settings without having to select the text or text tools.
The Character Palette and its pop-up menus provide options related to the formatting of individual characters. To open the Character Palette, click Palette in the Text Tool Options Bar or select Window | Show Characters,
Setting the Character Palette Options
Character Palette pop-up menu for the text to set more styles. For example, before entering text or selected text has been entered after you can choose AllCaps,, superscript or underline options. Here's a deeper look at these commands:
Faux Bold and Faux Italic bold or italicize text that doesn't have this style.
Fractional Width adjusts the distance between characters to produce the best typographic results. If used for Web or multimedia, the text size should be unchecked, as smaller text will have less distance between them and will not be easy to read.
"No breaks" allows the last word of a line to not break. For example, you want NewYork not to be broken into two lines. To avoid breaking a word or group of words, select the text and then choose "No breaks".
Reset Characters resets all the options on the character palette to their default values.
Of course, there are some other common operations, I will not be introduced.
7, the use of paragraph palette
PhotoshopCS2 paragraph palette can be operated on the entire paragraph of text, you can click on the text tool options bar "palette" or select "Window" | "Show Paragraph". "Show Paragraph" to open the paragraph palette, paragraph palette most of the options only applies to the text entered in paragraph mode. Most of the commands are similar to those in AdobeInDesign, Adobe PageMaker or QuarkPress.
The icons on the Paragraph palette are used to control paragraph alignment. The first three icons (from left to right) are left-aligned, centered (one line centered), and right-aligned. The last four are used to adjust the position of the text. You can set the last line by clicking on the appropriate icon for left-aligned and right-aligned forms, or you can adjust all lines (including the last line).
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