Is UI design difficult to learn?

Compared with programming, UI design is relatively easy to use. In addition to designing software, UI design also needs to learn to use flexibly, as well as drawing ability, design ideas, design skills, overall design framework, copy refining, aesthetic ability, understanding and communication ability. These need to be cultivated slowly in the learning process.

1, technical basis

If programmers spend most of the day typing code, then designers' time is left to Photoshop, Axure and Adobe Illustrator. Paint repair is really normal, which is also the birthplace of the name "art" Skilled technology is necessary to better display design works. As a UI designer, you should also master these commonly used software. The lower requirement is to be proficient in at least one software, all kinds of operations have formed a natural reaction, and other software can pass seven or eight points.

2. Drawing ability

Some people think that designers just need to go to the gallery website to find some materials and decorate them with tools. In fact, this can only exercise your reference ability. When your skills are proficient enough, you can try to copy them. Through copying, one is to strengthen the skill level, and the other is to enhance the innovative ability of beginners. There are two options to copy the content: one is the icon that comes with the system, which can not only help beginners understand the design rules of the platform, but also gradually consolidate the technology of commonly used software during copying. The other is the design works of cattle people in the industry. Knowing their design style, ideas and details can deepen the understanding of design.

3. Aesthetic ability

The designer's own aesthetic consciousness is very important. As for how to cultivate and improve aesthetic consciousness. Reading more, studying more, thinking more, and practicing more over time are the best ways to gradually improve aesthetic ability.

4. Design thinking ability

The difference between design and artistic design is that design needs thinking. There are often some fresh graduates who come to interview with copied works. Although it is beautifully made and made by ourselves, we are looking for design instead of artists. Copying will only exercise your skills but not your thinking ability, which will not help your design improvement. So what if the fresh graduates have no works? My suggestion is "redesign". Redesign is not plagiarism, but thinking. Every typesetting, every color is well thought out.

5, design performance ability

As a UI designer, the most important thing is visual expression. Creativity is the starting point of good design. Good ideas can make people have strong emotional fluctuations, or shock, or touch, or sadness. Creativity tests a designer's vision and brain hole, and even tests a designer's grasp of human emotions.

6. Communication and understanding skills

Most designers don't work alone, but work as a team. You need to maintain good communication skills. For example, the problem of changing maps frequently. Others say 1 you don't do it 1. It is possible that you did 1 as required, and others didn't say hello. For example, if you want to change the style of a product, you have to find out the reason, whether it doesn't conform to the current style, or what the product wants to highlight. A design with clear intentions will get twice the result with half the effort. And give each other a good impression of thinking and communication. Such employees are welcome everywhere.

The cloud and data UI training course is to let Xiaobai gradually penetrate into all levels of UI design from beginning to end. Whether it is graphic design, art design, web design, e-commerce design or interactive design, the lecturer will explain the whole process in combination with the actual project, and the course will be taught face to face in small classes. If you want to learn UI design systematically, please consult the cloud and data UI teacher.