Erik Kennedy – Learn UI Design – Full Access Plan

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Exploring the Essential Features of “Erik Kennedy – Learn UI Design – Full Access Plan
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• Level up your visual design skills
• Create a portfolio & get hired
• Make your startup or side project look professional
• Comprehensive, practical curriculum
• Over 36 hours of video lessons
• Figma resource library

Let me save you some time. Honestly, there’s only one reason to read anything on this page, and it’s this: you want to learn how to create great-looking user interfaces.

If that’s not you, you can bounce along now. No hard feelings 🙂

If you’re anything like I was, you find UI design to be confusing and open-ended. The advice out there seems vague, contradictory, and theoretical (rather than practical).

When you look at design topics like typography or color, you’re overwhelmed.

And when you see beautiful designs, they seem to be some mix of:

• Subjective
• Arbitrary
• Easy to recognize, but difficult to create

These feelings are all too familiar to me.

When I was a developer and PM, I felt this way constantly. I saw tons of great designs. I could even tell you which I liked best. But when it came to recreating something similar for myself, I was hopeless.

I saw UI designers as magical creatures who sprinkle 🌈 mysterious design dust 🦄 over any wireframe and make it shine. It seemed like some art school voodoo that was completely inaccessible to others – myself included.

The Hard Way

When I learned UI design, I had to do it the hard way. Largely self-taught, making progress an inch at a time. In the end, I learned the aesthetics of apps the same way I’ve learned any creative endeavor: cold, hard analysis. And shameless copying of what works. I’ve worked 10 hours on a UI project and billed for 1. The other 9 were the wild flailing of learning.

During that time, I came to have a disdain for the theory-heavy tripe that plagues so much design writing. You know what I’m talking about? Stuff like:

• Color theory (in reality, no designers really use it)
• The golden ratio (seems insightful, doesn’t help)
• Grids (less practical than you’d expect, given the airtime they get)

This stuff seems useful, but it failed the only metric that mattered to me: does it help me make a bad design look good?

Let’s fast-forward a few years. Now, I’ve designed interfaces for clients like Amazon, Soylent, Roam Research, and more, and made hundreds of thousands of dollars doing it. I’ve circled the globe freelancing from a dozen countries. From enterprise systems to personal side-projects, I’m confident in my ability to design whatever I need to – and have it look awesome.

“But I don’t know Arial from Helvetica” you cry. How will you ever become confident in design?

I thought you’d never ask.

Introducing

The Complete Online Video Course

54 Video-Based Lessons

Over 36 hours of video lessons, filled with strategies and live examples covering all major areas of UI design. Watch me, Erik, as I actually design dozens of examples right in front of you.
  
Watch from any device

Learn UI Design works on phones and tablets too, so you can watch from your desk or on the go.
 
Skill-Based exercises

Dozens of assignments tailored to efficiently hone your UI design skills.

Take a shot at them – then post in the student community for feedback from the student mentors.
 
Cheatsheets & Checklists

Old-school? No doubt. But it works.

Get over a dozen printable PDF cheatsheets and checklists with key design reminders and frameworks.

I keep these on my office wall. You’ll want to too.

Watch Over a Pro’s Shoulder

 3.5 Fixing Clashing Colors

 4.9 Styling Text III

 5.4 Icon Design

Learn UI Design is packed full of live video demos. Follow along as I create dozens of layouts, color schemes, elements, and more. From blank canvas to finished design, you’ll see how the process looks at every step of the way.

Articles can be helpful, slide decks can be illustrative — but live videos combine the best of both worlds. I’ve designed these videos to be like watching over my shoulder as I share the frameworks, tips, and tricks that have helped me design UI for companies of every size.

In total, we’ll cover every major area of interface design.

Which lesson will you do first?

Inside the Course

Learn UI Design includes access to three things:

I. The Lessons:

Video Series

36+ hours of video content, along with cheat sheets, top resources, and skill-building homework assignments.

II. The Bonus:

Redesign Vault

Dozens of sample redesign videos I’ve done from student submissions. 41+ hours of narrated design content.
There is no other course that covers so extensively the skills you need to design beautiful UI, as well as the skills you need to be a good designer (and it’s more than just pretty pictures– see unit VII).

Let’s take a closer look at each of the 3 parts.

UI design in 54 lessons:The Video Series

Work through it lesson by lesson, or skip around to what you’re most curious about at the moment. I get it — 36+ hours of video is a lot, even watching at 2x speed. But every minute is something I wish I had known when I started designing UI.

I.Introductory Topics

1.1Begin Here 
 
1.2Introduction to Figma 
 
1.3Introduction to Sketch 
 
1.4Setting Up Your Workspace for UI Design 
 
1.5How to Build Your Design Gut Instinct 
 
1.6Starting a Project: Brand & Goals 
 
1.7Finding & Using Design Inspiration 
 
1.83 Ways to Design Above Your Level 
 
II.Fundamentals

2.1Introduction: Analyzing Aesthetics  
 
2.2Alignment 
 
2.3Spacing 
 
2.4Consistency 
 
2.5Sizing 
 
2.6Simplicity 
 
2.7Lighting & Shadows 
 
III.Color

3.1HSB 

3.2Luminosity 

3.3Gray: The Most Important Color 
 
3.4Variations: The Most Important Color Skill 

3.5 3 Techniques to Fix Clashing Colors 

3.6 Picking a Primary UI Color 
 
3.7Creating a Brand-Based Palette 
 
3.8Dark Interfaces 
 
3.9Gradients 

IV.Typography

4.1Intro to Typography 
 
4.2The Good Fonts Table 
 
4.3Choosing Fonts: Overview 
 
4.4Choosing Body Fonts 
 
4.5Styling Text I: The Basic Rules 
 
4.6Brand & Letterform 
 
4.7Styling Text II: Interactive Apps 
 
4.8Pairing Fonts 
 
4.9Styling Text III: Editorial  
 
V.User Interface Components

5.1Component Libraries I: Controls  
 
5.2Component Libraries II: States  
 
5.3Vector Illustration  
 
5.4Icon Design 
 
5.5Photography & Imagery 
 
5.6Lists & Tables 
 
5.7Charts & Data Visualizations 
 
VI.Digital Platforms & Paradigms

6.1Responsive UI Design 
 
6.2Designing Multi-State Screens 
 
6.3Accessibility 
 
6.4Overlaying Text on Images 
 
6.5Truncating Text 
 
6.6Mobile: iOS 
 
6.7Mobile: Android/Material Design  
 
6.8Grids 
 
6.9Autolayout 
 
VII.Communicating Design

7.1Creating a Design Portfolio 
 
7.2Interviewing for Design Jobs 
 
7.3Finding Clients 
 
7.4Presenting Your Designs 
 
7.5Click-Through Prototyping 

7.6Developer Handoff

The Bonus:Live Redesign Vault

Completely separate from the main lessons of the course, the Live Redesign Vault is 41+ hours of video recordings of me, Erik, redesigning student submissions.

The events are live – and all students are invited. But the vault is where they’re cataloged and tagged by color, fonts, overall brand, and platform – so you can reference them for inspiration and best practices.

As with the video lessons, no rush. You have lifetime access.

Learn UI Design is not right for you if…

• You just want to finish a single design – not learn skills to serve you for years
• You believe you can become a better designer by passively watching videos (newsflash: you will have to do the homework assignments if you want to improve)
• You’re not a self-motivated learner (this is an online course, after all. I’m not handing out grades)

Learn UI Design is right for you if…

• You’re eager to learn and practice UI design
• You’ve tried designing something before – and it didn’t come out so great
• You know learning UI design will add value to your career (thousands of dollars or more)
• You’re self-motivated when it comes to learning – after all, no one’s standing over your shoulder telling you to do your homework
• You’ve got some interest in tech (the more you enjoy geeking out about software, the quicker you’ll learn)

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