Kickstart your UI/UX journey by following this playbook crafted with the insights from world's best designers
Learning the Skill
- Get Familiar with Design Concepts
- Familiarize yourself with UI principles
- Learn the creative UX process
- Develop your eye for Design 🎨
- Keep yourself updated with UX Design Blogs
- 5 Different Industries you can choose to start designing Website / Mobile App -
- Health (Get inspirations)
- Education (Get inspirations)
- Digital Agency (Get inspirations)
- Food (Get inspirations)
- Travel (Get inspirations)
- Design UI for 10 Different Mobile Applications
- Create at least 20 Quality Designs for Dribbble
- Pick 3 Brands Website/App and come up with your version of it
- Write 5 UI/UX Case Studies of your favourite Products
- Start a 30 days or 100 days UI/UX Challenge in public
- Redesign 5 UI Templates from DopeUI and make your Portfolio Stunning
- Create a Pinterest Board of all the designs that you have worked on
- Design your personal website that will present all the designs you have done so far
- Take 5 popular websites and find the sections which you want to improve and redesign them
Landing Opportunity
- Search "UI/UX Designer Hiring" on Twitter Search
- Make a list of 10 Brands whose products can be more attractive. Cold DM them, how you can help in making their website or App look stunning.
- Set up your profile on any Freelancing platform(Upwork/Fiverr) and start applying for gigs.
- Pick a brand, design, or create someone awesome around their product that they might use and leverage. And, Show them what you have come up with.
- Be vocal about the work you do on social platforms, either you or the people will help you attract opportunities for you.