How to become a qualified game UI designer?

Many young people who want to enter the game industry and become game UI designers have thought about the same question: How can they become a qualified game UI designer? What books do you want to read? What school do you go to? What qualities do you have? Faced with such an emerging industry full of temptations and dreams, everyone was at a loss at first. Any piece of information, a word will become a lifeline for some people, and if you grasp it, you may succeed. But more often, you will lose money, lose youth, lose your dreams, and finally get nothing. As the saying goes, "A word is true, but thousands of books is false". Every time I recruit, I see enthusiastic but confused young people. Xiamen Mo really wants to give them some advice in the future. For the prosperity of the game industry? And maintain a beautiful dream? Perhaps, just to become a weak light, to illuminate a bright road for those who want to enter this industry.

To be a qualified game UI designer, you must pass these qualification tests.

Art foundation

The game UI designer must have a solid artistic foundation, because the aesthetic understanding and preferences directly affect the style and quality of the designer's works. It is best to be familiar with the knowledge modules of aesthetics, graphic composition, chromatics and graphic design. Not only that, but more importantly, the control of the overall color of the game and the understanding of the game style can only reach a certain height after a certain accumulation, which is why those graduates who can only take out school homework are not competitive.

Software learning

A qualified game UI designer should not use tools. The technical content of using tools is also different, but at least it can prove the proficiency of basic skills. Skillful use of commonly used UI software is also a decisive factor, and it is not enough to master hand-drawing only. Therefore, skilled use of practical UI design software, such as photoshop(ps), coreldraw(cdr) and illustrator(ai), is the mainstream game UI design software on the market. Only by constantly improving the comprehensive level can we have a better development prospect.

Project practice

Game UI design is a new type of compound occupation that has been gradually developed in recent years, involving a wide range and developing rapidly. The professional categories covered include: main interface icon and auxiliary icon design, game element design, game interface layout, game LOGO design and so on. Therefore, project practice can better contact with these industry designs and fully mobilize their vitality and creativity. Training will also help you meet the needs of enterprises face to face, and quickly master the ability to design and produce game UI, which will be of great help to you.

After completing the above three steps, you will initially have the qualification to become a game UI designer. Of course, in the process of becoming a game UI designer, we have to go through various challenges, and then we have to strengthen the cultivation of aesthetic feeling, enhance aesthetic ability and accumulate production experience through different types of commercial projects.