The Tech Industry is booming nowadays and a lot of people are diving into it to get most out of it. Before a decade there is no responsivene...
The Tech Industry is booming nowadays and a lot of people are diving into it to get most out of it. Before a decade there is no responsiveness, animation, UI (User Interface)/UX(User Experience) designing for Website and Apps. But today the industries is focusing on designing rather than coding . Due to this many platform such as Webflow, WordPress, Supernova are rapidly growing. Similarly Figma, Behance are on their peak .
UI/UX designers is a person or group of persons who is responsible for designing a website/web pages or Application(Apps) without any code. They are booming right know. From top companies to small are hiring designers all over the world. Many career option , too much salary and many more.
Want to become a UI/UX designer then this post is for you. Complete guide of how to be successful in this field so enough talking lets get started. Do share this video with college students so as they will get more benefit out of it
Make an Environment suitable for Designing.
For to become a UI/UX designer you have to think like a designer do, practise every single day , learn various technique, love to implement it. “No one can become great in a single day” same thing applies to it, first surround yourself with the designing environment. Starting reading books, news, latest blogs, watch videos, articles, subscribe to top designers channel or maybe platforms to get latest updates and to surround yourself with this.
Dribbble
One of the great platform to explore where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community and jobs. Learn from top designers, their designing and connect with designers worldwide. It is basically used for professional designer to showcase their skills. Better design with animation are mainly seen in Dribbble.
Behance
According to Wikipedia, Behance is a social media platform owned by Adobe which aims “to showcase and discover creative work. There are various categories other than design for designers such as Graphic design, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and many more such amazing categories. Learn from top designers, their designing and connect with designers worldwide.
Awwwards
Here is too much to learn from a single platform. Various cool designs , eBooks and many more. To encourage designers there are various competition as well and after the winners are choosed among by Awwwards community and an international jury panel consist of designers. The best daily designs are also published in Awwwards year end book.
There are other platform as well but after studying a little bit, this platform are highly recommend by most designers. And after suggesting various platforms, a beginner always have some doubts What to start with ? Where to learn first ? I highly recommend to explore a single skill, “Only to get most out of a single box” and then jump to other. I want to assure you that I only write about what I do, or have done.
After this you have a guide about the designing process. Now after understanding various design from various designing platform, you have an idea about it. So now get started to practice it.
Practice with available Tools
One of the important aspect to be successful is “Always love to practice what you have learned”. According to a study, a person can only remember 10% from reading and 90% from practising it. So to learn quick, one of the easiest way is by practising it. So lets started to practice.
There are lots of tools to start practising with, so its up to you which one to choose and explore. But according to popularity and by recommendation below tools are best.
Designing Tools:
a) Sketch (Only For Apple/ Mac Users)
b) Figma (Best and free designing tool to work with)
c) Adobe Xd.
Here you can take an idea from other designers designs but not to steal. It is not about stealing but to copy everything from other designers is not likely to perform, instead of stealing it, just leave designing and explore other which you like.
Implementation
After getting an Idea, practising it , building something from that, the next step is to showcase your skill. But Where? Simply to dribbble, Behance, Awwwards. Yeah you read it right. Any designer can showcase their skills in this platform. So this is the main journey to which many designers learn in a very easy and quick way. After it join Design Communities to get something better. Most popular communities are Behance and dribbble other than that Designer Hangout and Hexagon are also very popular.
Start Earning
Take part in Challenges, Contest where you can earn money and in this way you can easily earn. Behance Daily Design Challenges is one of the challenges that you can participate. Start your brand , Start a startup, Expand your business . Work as a Freelancer in Freelancer, Fiverr or Upwork. According to Glassdoor the average salary for only a Web Designer is 354k per year and this goes on exponentially. Work as a Website designer in top MNC’s . There are various sources to earn money just get started.
Conclusion
For a successful designer you have to keep learning because industry is changing and if you stuck at a certain point then you will be lost. After performing above steps you have to think various design and implement it on any Designing tools like Figma. Be strict with what you have learned, practice it. Plan your time, keep connected with other designers. Start with small, dream big and implement it. Now after this you have to gain more knowledge about related topic and other trending topic. In this era , Information is must and you have to keep grasping it to be part of technology.
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