
This first week is all about learning how to learn. Find your favorite designs, pick them apart, work out why you love them, why they work and then recreate them.
Knowing the principles of design, how and when to use will elevate you into a better league of designer. Learn a set of fundamental rules that you can apply to your designs and make your designs stand out.
One of the most important areas of design. If you get your typography right, you're 70% there!
Knowing how to use certain layout techniques will help you produce useful and beautiful work in any design job
Learn how to evoke emotions and create responses from your users by applying clean and beautiful colours.
Learn how to implement user interface fundamentals to create pixel perfect designs.
Learn how to make a design user friendly and the process needed to get there.
Combine all your learnings so far for your final project
This is an 8 week self-directed online course.
This bootcamp has been designed in a way to give you the fastest possible way to becoming a better designer. Giving you the best structure and exercises to follow to improve your skills as a designer and take you to the next level. You will also become more valuable as a designer rather than just a pixel pusher.
Learning design is a long journey and everyone is looking for the secret sauce or the magic bullet. Unfortunately, there isn't a super secret that will short cut you to design mastery. But, there are certain ways of studying and practicing that will propel your learning and make your a better designer in a shorter time frame.
The course uses a learn by doing approach. When you want to be a designer, you want to create cool designs, not listen to hours of boring lectures on theory. This course teaches you the theory while you design, making it more fun and scientifically proven as a better way of learning.
Every week you will have a new project. This means eight different design projects including mobile apps, desktop apps and responsive web pages. You will be given homework every week. A list of design exercises, a main project to work on and some suggested reading.
The projects will follow on from each other so you cement everything you have learnt and have multiple opportunities to practice your new skills. This bootcamp will help you learn a solid design process that top companies use. One of the best things about this course is it gives you a clear path to improvement. Follow the process and you will improve!
So what are you waiting for? Roll up your sleeves and let's design!