Become A Self Taught UI/UX Designer in 2023

Curated from: Tim Gabe

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One Idea that many pOne Idea that many people dont understand

One idea that many people don’t seem to understand is that getting into design is knot about learning a lot of theory or information but it is about Actually doing design work. A lot of the theory you learn in courses and at school isn’t applied in real life. You need these next 5 steps to learn how to think like a designer

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Learning How To Think Like A Designer

The most important skill for designers is not pixel pushing but it is problem solving. AI already can do Visual design so as UX designers we need to ask ourselves how can we help our users achieve what they want with the least amount of fiction

Start learning as much as you can about the skill of problem solving

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2. Getting Familiar With Design Principles

Gain a real understanding about the design principles because they help you In whatever you are designing. If you learn design principles you will gain a better eye for good design and your Ui design skills will improve

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3. Recreating Stuff Over And Over Again

Copying and stealing web design is the best way to learn design, you can learn a ton of visual design concepts like typography, spacing and colors you will start learning patterns

Explore design sites and recreate the design and then find the patterns used to achieve that design

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4. Building A Portfolio Of Work

Work on concept work for instance you can go to fakeclients.com or goodbreif.com they can generate amazing fake client briefs

Define what kind of designer you want to be for instance UX or UI

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5. Land An Internship

You need job experience, and feedback on your designs is key to explosive growth it is key to growing as a designer.

Feedback makes you grow

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