I use figma. Figma is beginner friendly. Oh really, if you've been doing drag and drop, then UI will be an easy breeze for you.

I think I need to change the title of this thread though, UI and UX and two different but inter-twined things. There's no UI without UX, and UX in the long run results to a good UI.

The reason to learn UX first is to know how to design better UI that would suit the user needs. Even good visuals and beautiful designs also contributes to the overall user experience.

I hope I don't confuse you

TechSkill:
Ah, thanks... That means I will jump on UX right away. Thanks. I love the feel and experience of website pages and I have played around building sites with drag and drop for years.

Is it Adobe XD you are using for your UI/UX? or what would you recommend? Please let me know and I will download it at night today.

I have not started up work yet. Working in a start up atm. And na just one, one is on hold. I have outsourced the rest.

Lol. Diary na mumbo jumbo

Emeraldfynest:
Impressive to hear you started in March bro, I dey feel your diary . Are you getting the jobs from Upwork?

What do you guys use for your portfolio?

Uhmm...

Whether you are just starting out, or you are an expert in design, it is important you always remember the basics. Always learn go back to the basics from time to time until it becomes a part of you. Many experience designers are fond of just jumping on figma when they see a project without no persona, user flow or all of that, no process. They feel they know it all already. We need to understand the cost of poor design.

Go back to the basics of UX Design from time to time.

Willmichael:
I use figma. Figma is beginner friendly. Oh really, if you've been doing drag and drop, then UI will be an easy breeze for you.

I think I need to change the title of this thread though, UI and UX and two different but inter-twined things. There's no UI without UX, and UX in the long run results to a good UI.

The reason to learn UX first is to know how to design better UI that would suit the user needs. Even good visuals and beautiful designs also contributes to the overall user experience.

I hope I don't confuse you

Thanks... I will get to it.

Oh, nice. Pls any tips for job application and job search? And asides the 3 projects in that course, what projects can I include in my portfolio to make it stand out, I've not even started learning Figma yet . Are you a student?

Willmichael:
I have not started up work yet. Working in a start up atm. And na just one, one is on hold. I have outsourced the rest.

Lol. Diary na mumbo jumbo

For portfolio, I have seen good portfolios built with Webflow, and Webflow has made a free year plan for students of the Google course. If you go to Webflow university, there is a 21 day course on how you can build your portfolio from scratch, just follow the steps. And Webflow is a no code website builder too.

Willmichael:
What do you guys use for your portfolio?

Uhmm...

Whether you are just starting out, or you are an expert in design, it is important you always remember the basics. Always learn go back to the basics from time to time until it becomes a part of you. Many experience designers are fond of just jumping on figma when they see a project without no persona, user flow or all of that, no process. They feel they know it all already. We need to understand the cost of poor design.

Go back to the basics of UX Design from time to time.

The 3 projects in the course is enough. If you want to include extra, take up personal ones, maybe to solve a problem,...around you or something.

If you've gotten to the second curse, start practicing short figma youtube videos.

I'm an out-of-school student tho

Emeraldfynest:
Oh, nice. Pls any tips for job application and job search? And asides the 3 projects in that course, what projects can I include in my portfolio to make it stand out, I've not even started learning Figma yet . Are you a student?

Link to the 21 day course?

I'll try that webflow stuff.

Emeraldfynest:
For portfolio, I have seen good portfolios built with Webflow, and Webflow has made a free year plan for students of the Google course. If you go to Webflow university, there is a 21 day course on how you can build your portfolio from scratch, just follow the steps. And Webflow is a no code website builder too.

Alright that's fine, thanks.

Willmichael:
The 3 projects in the course is enough. If you want to include extra, take up personal ones, maybe to solve a problem,...around you or something.

If you've gotten to the second curse, start practicing short figma youtube videos.

I'm an out-of-school student tho

Willmichael:
Link to the 21 day course?

I'll try that webflow stuff.

Here

https://university.webflow.com/courses/2021-portfolio-course

So the projects in the course plus the one you did at Genesys helped you get your new job right? And do you use only Behance for now? Someone will still have to buy a domain name when building a real website for a portfolio.

Willmichael:
The 3 projects in the course is enough. If you want to include extra, take up personal ones, maybe to solve a problem,...around you or something.

If you've gotten to the second curse, start practicing short figma youtube videos.

I'm an out-of-school student tho

Hmm
I don't have any full projects yet. It's just Insha Allah and vibes. Although, I have personal projects I'm working on which would take some time. But I have a couple of shots on dribbble and behance, and articles too.

I'm not done with Genesys yet. It's still a long way to go.

Emeraldfynest:
So the projects in the course plus the one you did at Genesys helped you get your new job right? And do you use only Behance for now? Someone will still have to buy a domain name when building a real website for a portfolio.

Alright. For the articles, do you mean case studies? Pls don't vex for my plenty questions o

Willmichael:
Hmm
I don't have any full projects yet. It's just Insha Allah and vibes. Although, I have personal projects I'm working on which would take some time. But I have a couple of shots on dribbble and behance, and articles too.

I'm not done with Genesys yet. It's still a long way to go.

Hey guys!!! Greetings from the other side of the internet...
I'm interested in this field would love to connect and learn in due time when I get a lappy
Looking forward to this interesting journey with you all!!!

Emeraldfynest:
Alright. For the articles, do you mean case studies? Pls don't vex for my plenty questions o

I have just one mini-case study as an article

You could do case studies as articles too, if you want. The questions are okay, the reason for the thread in the first place

Jedalord:
Hey guys!!! Greetings from the other side of the internet...
I'm interested in this field would love to connect and learn in due time when I get a lappy
Looking forward to this interesting journey with you all!!!

Don't wait for a pc.
Start reading articles, everyone you can find. Go to Medium, uxplanet, uxcel, career foundry, idf. Just read everything now you don't have a pc.

Read books too if you are serious. Things would be easier when you now get a pc

Willmichael:


Don't wait for a pc.
Start reading articles, everyone you can find. Go to Medium, uxplanet, uxcel, career foundry, idf. Just read everything now you don't have a pc.

Read books too if you are serious. Things would be easier when you now get a pc

Good morning oh thanks most of the information I find are from YouTube... Been learning a lot and the algorithm has been favourable to recommend tutorials from the masters
Arigato Sensei, I would check these one out

Learn a lot about the Principles of Design before you jump on Figma

And also the basics laws of UX. Very important, even if its only UI you want to do.

Pragnanz, Teslers, Contrast, Getstalt and the likes of them. Arm yourself with this basics and you would fly

Nice one bro. You are very right. I believe one doesn't need a background in Graphics design before moving into UI/UX, you just have to master the principles like Typography, Fonts, White Spacing etc. This Google UX course has taught me a lot, and I'm still on the 3rd out of 7 courses, the Getsalt law was also mentioned in the course, I haven't gotten there though.

There is this e-book written by Michael Filipiuk, check him out on Twitter, it is called Principles of UI design, and it is free too. I'm currently using it to learn as well. How has work been btw?

Willmichael:

Learn a lot about the Principles of Design before you jump on Figma

And also the basics laws of UX. Very important, even if its only UI you want to do.

Pragnanz, Teslers, Contrast, Getstalt and the likes of them. Arm yourself with this basics and you would fly

If you have issues, or encounter any difficulty at all, call it out here...

I could point you to the right resource you need

I figure building real products is different from most of the fancy stuffs we do on figma

How far boss,good evening. I'm done with my low fi prototype for my project. Now about to do the actual design but honestly I'm stacked, I have serious issues withnchoosing colours, pls any suggestions? It is an Artb Auction App. I suppose get your WhatsApp contact sef, pls check dm, thanks.

Willmichael:
If you have issues, or encounter any difficulty at all, call it out here...

I could point you to the right resource you need

Hi Emerald. This happens to the lot of us. Glad you started with the LoFi, picking colours won't stress you much.

What you can do now is take a cue from anywhere around you. You can go to dribbble and see how people combine colours, or look at the them of what you are designing and check similar apps.

Another thing you can do is to play safe with just 2 colours, if you can, just 1.

Then, read the Secret Lives of Colours when you have the chance

Emeraldfynest:
How far boss,good evening. I'm done with my low fi prototype for my project. Now about to do the actual design but honestly I'm stacked, I have serious issues withnchoosing colours, pls any suggestions? It is an Artb Auction App. I suppose get your WhatsApp contact sef, pls check dm, thanks.

Ok, thanks a lot.

Willmichael:
Hi Emerald. This happens to the lot of us. Glad you started with the LoFi, picking colours won't stress you much.

What you can do now is take a cue from anywhere around you. You can go to dribbble and see how people combine colours, or look at the them of what you are designing and check similar apps.

Another thing you can do is to play safe with just 2 colours, if you can, just 1.

Then, read the Secret Lives of Colours when you have the chance

What do you mean by this?

Willmichael:
I figure building real products is different from most of the fancy stuffs we do on figma

Can a person over 30 go in ui/ux?

babasolution:
Can a person over 30 go in ui/ux?

i know someone who startrd tech at the age of 50 and now he is making cool cash.

Just getting into the field of ui/ux after a friend recommended it for me, good thing ive found this thread, thanks willmichael and others for the articles,books,videos and advice.
I will try and get ux courses from YouTube before the year runs out, atleast i already have a good basic understanding of figma.

Hi, I am Adekunle. A beginner in product design (UI UX Design. I must say, going through all of the chats on the thread is worthwhile. Thanks to the bosses on here.

I've been into this path for two months now, and no doubt, it's a very good career path to journey. All we need is being focused and determined. I guess with that, our success story will get to be a lovely one.

I can't wait to widen my expertise with you Bosses.

Season greeting to you all.. Okay so i just stumbled on this thread some minutes ago while surfing.

Its nice to have people who are experienced in this journey as they can help us get through the pitfalls and give us insight on the task ahead.

I started my transition from Graphics design to UI/UX about a month ago and it has been going pretty well thus far. just wanted to drop my cents here, hopefully would share resources here too and get better insights here too .. Following the thread back to back now ..

Wudec Highster WIllmichael tensazangetsu20, missimelda01 et all ... sorry i had to call you guys out, but i am hopeful about you guys feedback and knowledge sharing here ...

Season greeting to you all.. Okay so i just stumbled on this thread some minutes ago while surfing.

Its nice to have people who are experienced in this journey as they can help us get through the pitfalls and give us insight on the task ahead.
.
I started my transition from Graphics design to UI/UX about a month ago and it has been going pretty well thus far. just wanted to drop my cents here, hopefully would share resources here too and get better insights here too .. Following the thread back to back now ..

Wudec Highster WIllmichael tensazangetsu20, missimelda01 et all ... sorry i had to call you guys out, but i am hopeful about you guys feedback and knowledge sharing here ..