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I remember how I learned designing it was a chilly winter day and I had a cup of coffee in my hand watching YouTube for hours until I got bored and then I thought you know what would be
Really cool if I learned designing so I looked up some tutorials bought a few courses and 6 months later I was a designer so I created this channel to show you guys how you two can become a designer
Believe me I wish I could tell that story when I get asked how I learned designning but the truth is it’s not a linear journey of just watching tutorials and following along it’s more like a
Tree you learn the fundamentals and then every day you grow a little more yeah there are a lot of obstacles when you’re a teeny tiny plant you get thoughts like am I in the right path should I learn this new technology is AI threatening Humanity or how can I get better well you’re
Not alone we all go through the same thing at some point I actually think I suck at a lot of things but still grind and try to improve not by just learning design but by actually designing you
Could estain a warm and cozy spot in the tutorial Hill or you could follow my three magic steps to getting the hell out of it step one observe it all starts and pretty much ends with the one single most important unskippable element in any creative work passion you need this with
You all the time passion will make you follow design around like crazy and when your passion grows you start exposing yourself to More Design more projects you surround yourself with things that remind you of your passion things that feed it make you curious you just can’t wait to dive
Deeper and then something really catches your eye it makes you want to get closer you want to see everything similar to it you just can’t get enough you want more inspiration there are really cool
Stuff out there and you want to make cool stuff like them but how one thing I did was to start recreating the designs that I liked it can start with a simple icon and become more complicated
In time but recreating makes you learn that skill deeply so next time you look at something that’s created the same way you know exactly what steps were taken but remember the Recreations are just for you to really learn that skill not to feed it to your portfolio that’s probably not going
To help you any anyway instead mix the skills and the techniques you learned from others with your own ideas but J where am I supposed to get ideas from literally anywhere remember how I yapped a
Whole lot about passion well that passion is key to finding ideas it’s like you will see and think design everywhere while you’re walking when you see an advertisement when you use a mobile app when you visit a new website when you play a game watch a movie in your shower thoughts it’s
Everywhere everything in our world is designed by someone and that someone could be you and there you go here’s another source of ideas you what would help you what problem of yours could you solve with a new designer product hell you might even end up solving the problems of others
In the process wait you already have some ideas don’t you when you have a bunch of cool ideas to design or build you might find it overwhelming to make all of them and that can weigh you down
Make you disappointed we can’t let that happen you’d be more productive if you focused on one but which one look at this diagram well Calli the what the hell should I do diagram let’s say you have a bunch of ideas waiting to be ranked by questions like are you you passionate about
It do you have the resources to make it will it help you or others and will it potentially make you any money you rank every idea on this diagram and the closer they land to the center
The better the idea once you have your winning idea you got to feed it write down everything you have in mind about it find pictures from the internet experiment with colors do your research and just really think about it okay I spend a lot of time just thinking analyzing and researching
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Cool idea of a futuristic social media because I’m super upset obsessed with it and milanote allows me to just drop all my wild ideas on the user experience and the user interface and make
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Using the link in the description and start your next creative project if you enjoy using milanote or if you’ve used it before let me know in the comments step two aose if you’ve managed to come this far good job you’ve earned Five Points you’ve observed everything got inspired and
Recreated designs to master the skill recreating is great but you know what’s better creating and it’s time to challenge everything I had an idea to design a futuristic social media I have my Clues and examples right here so I’ll just go ahead and start creating a layout filling it up with
Colors and just making sure it’s super futuristic okay pause pause this is not it rewind I have my Clues and examples right here but I can’t just start designing and decide how to make a fun and
Engaging UI that will serve users along the way I got to work backward from what what I want to serve users with toward how I should design them or make them fun and engaging like okay so it’s a
Futuristic social media on a futuristic device and the way that we’re headed we’re probably going to be a bunch of talking characters on the internet updating our status every single moment because of course in that future technology is much more accessible and connected to us with a little
Chip or an omnipresent phone I don’t know but things are fast right and in that future you’re not going to want a lot of options in front of you you want things to be simple and yeah this
Whole thing is pretty dystopian but at least now I have a lead but who am I kidding these are all just boring discussions real question is how do I make it look good honestly looking good can mean several things looking clean looking new looking impressive I mean it’s pretty
Subjective but if you take each of these synonyms of looking good your job will be easier like sure I can make it look clean or add something new by thinking out of the box like avatars don’t have
To be 2D maybe they can be 3D that’s much more immersive and impressive but here’s the thing it doesn’t have to be clean new or impressive to look good right maybe it just works very well or it’s user friendly but again that all depends on the end goal doesn’t it step three upscale
You’ve come a long way and you certainly deserve five extra points for that by now you’ve seen a lot you’ve pushed the boundaries and now you’re ready to ascend to a higher quality by mixing what you’ve experienced with the power of your creativity like I could make this background
Effect by making different elements or I could make different drop Shadows or even simpler I can make it a linear gradient and put the turning points right next to each other the point is I know my options and now I can choose which one is more efficient who knows maybe I’ll observe a
Pose and upscale again and again and come up with better options essentially it’s all just practice but I had to prove this point I had to make sure that learning the basics in like 10 minutes and immediately starting the grind would actually help you design faster and better so in another
Video I asked you guys to come up with an idea and redesign it in different styles for 7 days and you know what happened you did it you started with a simple design and worked on it from A New
Perspective every day and by the end you learned so much through just experience moral of the story is it’s time to stop learning and start doing I mean what do you have to lose am I right what
What were the points for well nothing but wouldn’t you say it improved your experience anyway that’s all for this video if you liked it make sure you do your magic down there and see you on the next one [Music]
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time to do better huge help. thanks for this video help a lot
YOU SHOULD DESIGN NOW ⚡⚡
You like cats?
WHERE IS THAT OTHER VIDEO YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT I WANNA WATCH THAT. ok i found it
The best design chanel by far! Just excellent!
I'm so sorry for the assumption, but your English sounds like you are Asian.
As a developer I hope NOONE EVER decides to design buttons and toggles like those at 1:48 😂
You are so true! I never "learned" how to design something. I just started making stuff that I like and stuff that has potential but a bad design.. so I started redesign Apps, Websites … I think that is the passion you mentioned.
A great book about design thinking is Melis Senova's "This Human: How to be the person designing for other people"! Her book covers all the design thinking stages and it's an easy way to begin understanding the underlying framework of how designing works. I'm reading it for my UX courses at university rn, highly recommend!
Right after finishing university I couldn't get a design job due to covid – "only" thing I got was supermarket jobs. But damn that was a nice starting point. I had 8h a day to stare at branding of other products, study them, see which ones stuck out to me. Tried to recreate some of them after work hours. And boy oh boy did every single company love this story / attitude.
Design is literally everywhere, it's wild how much stuff you can study about it nowadays just by interacting with your phone or by going shopping!
Bro, every time I see the cat meme, I get neuron activation. LMAO. This is genius editing right there.
You have no idea how much I needed that video. I am spiralling around the "am I doing the right thing" point right now and it's just comforting to know that I'm not alone
Thank you for sharing your design journey. I loved the part where you explained the whole process to find inspiration and ideas for your project using Venn diagram. Definitely , I m going to use it.
Thanks a lot.This video is just in time for people like us who wants to learn design seriously.
hmmm.
Thanks for the 10 points..
and the help
A lot of this applies so much to any creative endeavor!
More passion… More energy
You are absolutely amazing!
2:54 solved one of my biggest problems. What the hell should I do diagram . I wish someday they will teach this school
"what the hell should I do" diagram was a nice insight for me 2:59
Juxtopposed from where did you got it?
The thumbnail has a bezier handle at the top-right (sharpt) corner of the O. What?! 😀
please use different background music next time, this shit is hurting my ears 😭😭
That diagram might be a little misleading because it implies that passion is a cross section of resources, money, and want to help others will lead to passion. The commodification of art will be its death.
I was here since 30k, Omw you've come a long way. I'm a bit sad I missed your challenge. I hope to catch the next one.
3:21 Couldn't agree more.
2:53 just a tiny nerd note, a 4 way venn diagram really needs to be ellipses. With circles you can't place something that you have passion for + helps you or others
I can totally relate with you !
i am too following the same thing Unexpectedly
because passion is driving me 🔥🔥😉
ur videos are so good i can't stop watching them wtf
i got all the points i feel good about myself.
hi, I really like your videos & design sharing, may I know what software you use to edit your video?
Really been doubting myself a lot these days about if I even had passion for design. This helped when i first watched it and I'm back to say I even got an idea out of nowhere and EXECUTED it. Execution had always been another problem too. Practice really does wonders, who would've thought 💀