UI and Visual Design Beginners Short Course

Topics covered

• Analysing and summarising a creative brief into keywords to be explored through design ideation
• Ideating and creating a mood board that expresses a clear potential design direction
• Gestalt principles in UI design
• Web typography, colour and layout
• Defining common UI and navigation patterns.
• Developing wireframes of low-, mid-, and high-fidelity, before finalising the user interface
• Designing mobile and tablet compositions on a responsive grid
• Creating clickable hi-fidelity prototypes
• Get a thorough overview of how to navigate in Figma, and its basic functions
• Work on creating design files ready to share with product managers and developers, like the importance of accessibility and grids

Learning outcomes

• Incorporate basic principles of user experience (UX) design to determine and solve challenging user interface (UI) problems
  
• Develop wireframes of low-, mid-, and high-fidelity, before finalising the UI of a website or app
  
• Create clickable hi-fidelity prototypes of intuitive websites and apps
  
• Digital badge and certificate of attendance.

Materials

• Students will be told how to sign up for a Figma (free) account on the first day of the course
  
• The Adobe Suite is not essential for this course, but you may wish to create an account if you have not already. Adobe is available with an existing account on UAL computers.

Students will need to create an account with Adobe (unless you already have one) in order to access the Adobe suite at the college; instructions are included below. You will need to use a personal email address to create this. If you already have an account with Adobe, please make sure you bring your login details with you on the first day of the course

Please note:

• Creating an Adobe account is free.
• The software will only be accessible when logged into a UAL networked computer
• The same account can be used outside of the University, but software will only be accessible through a personal paid subscription that students will need to set up independently
• You can still create an account on the day but doing this beforehand will save time and avoid delays to the start of the class.
• If you already have an Adobe ID/ subscription you can use this on your short course rather than setting up a new account.

To create an account students will need to:

• Go to Adobe Sign in page
• Select 'Create an account'
• Enter your details and select 'Create account'