Make Outstanding UI for Games, Apps & Websites（e-learning）

Stop scraping together your design knowledge from random articles and videos.

Learn the entire modern UI design process from a global design expert in hours, not months.

Learn in hours, not months

Learn everything you need to start designing UI for games (mobile/handheld, console, PC, web), apps(mobile, web), and websites like an expert designer in a matter of hours, not weeks or months.

Learn practical design, not theory

Learn practical design knowledge and skills for modern interface design that you can apply daily, not high level theory only used in rare situations.

Learn everything, not some things

Learn how to analyze designs and understand what information, elements, layouts, patterns and interactions to use, and how to design them. This means everything from UI design analysis & testing to interaction design, information design, and visual design.

Learn the process, not just tips and tricks

Learn the real world design process and how to design based on evidence, not your gut feeling or group consensus. You won’t have to “guess” what to design, you will “know” what to design and why.Your designs won’t be concept designs; they will be evidence-based designs that meet business goals and user needs.

Learn UI design for the real world

Learn how to work with other designers and teammates in real world scenarios and see step-by-step how to tackle projects as a team.

For beginners and experts

From beginners to experts; everyone can follow-along and learn how to design in plain-speak – no jargon here. Take this course and easily land your first UI job or get promoted to a lead or senior design position.

Future proof your career

The demand for UX and UI designers will continue far into the foreseeable future.
And luckily for us, AI won’t be replacing designers anytime soon; humans still understand business goals, human needs, interaction, information and visual design better than machines.

What’s included in the course?

It’s jam-packed full of 20+ years of professional, academic, and industry experience in a matter of hours. Watch a global design expert share industry secrets, expert methods, and the keys to designing gorgeous and intuitive interfaces.

Real world design scenario, analysis and testing

Learn how this course will teach you the core knowledge and skills you need to build the interfaces of today and the future through a real world redesign scenario. Understand the role of UI design in aligning business goals and user needs to create superior user experiences. And learn how simple it is to learn UI design when looked at from the perspective of Organization, Economy, and Communication.

● Course introduction
● Real world UI redesign scenario
● Design analysis and testing
● Usability
● Organization, Economy, Communication (OEC)

Interaction design: best practices

Learn essential interaction design principles that you need to know if you want to create not just usable, but intuitive user experiences.

● Introduction
● Interaction design (design principles)
　○ Visibility of system status
　○ Match between system and the real world
　○ User control and freedom
　○ Consistency and standards
　○ Error prevention
　○ Recognition rather than recall
　○ Flexibility and efficiency of use
　○ Aesthetics and simplicity
　○ Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
　○ Help and documentation

Evidence-based design

Learn how design insights and recommendations are created from design analysis, testing, and other research insights and then used in the creation of new evidence-based designs.

● Insights
● Recommendations

The three phase design process
Information design: information structure

Learn the basics of information design to inform and lay a strong foundation for visual design.

● The three phase UI design process
● Information design (low-fidelity)
　○ Organization
　○ Sketches
　○ Information priority and hierarchy
　○ Component controls

Visual design: visual form and structure

Learn how to create visual form before visual aesthetics. You won’t find this stage in most UI design courses – it’s one of my secrets to amazing visual design.

● Visual design (medium-fidelity)
　○ Economy
　○ Wireframes
　○ Layout: alignment, sizing, and spacing
　○ Visual priority and hierarchy
　○ Designing text

Visual design: visual aesthetics and polish

Learn how to turn visual form into a polished design that users will love. This is the cherry-on-top. This is the stage that most designers start with – a big mistake. This is the stage you end with. This is where everything comes together to create outstanding UI.

● Visual design (high-fidelity)
　○ Communication
　○ Mockups
　○ Branding: primary and secondary colors
　○ Gray, your new best friend
　○ Professional and accessible color palettes

● Final words
　○ You are the future

AI design for games, apps, and websites

Learn how to properly add AI design (graphics, assets, UI designs, and others) to the modern UI design process for games, apps, and websites so you don’t make mistakes you’ll regret later. And ultimately, learn how to use AI to speed up the design process, create stunning designs, and blow away the competition.

UI design with Midjourney AI

● Midjourny setup and settings (versions, aspect ratios, styles, and various parameters)
● Graphics, assets, illustrations, and UI design generation
● Adding AI designs into the UI design process
● Biggest mistakes when using when using AI for UI design and how to avoid them

“If you design or build sites, apps, and games, these videos are pure gold. The course is literally my entire career in UI design distilled into something you can finish over the weekend. You won’t be disappointed.”

-Jacob Nelson

Jacob’s profile

Jacob Nelson
After graduating from the University of Washington with an M.S. in Information Management, Jacob Nelson worked in multiple leadership positions at global and local companies as Head of Design R&D, Head of UX&PX Strategy, Head of Digital Marketing &Brand, and others. Jacob was also a design mentor for Staffordshire University and the University of Washington.

He has worked on countless projects, sites, apps, and mobile games over his career with his mobile games showcased in the coveted “Featured Games” and “Top Charts” on Google Play and App Store. Jacob also won the “Best Marketing Team” award at the 2018 Global Carrier Awards. His recent publications include an educational series on PX&UX design and joint paper, “Affective Computing on Mental Health” (Game IoT for Healthcare).
Currently, Jacob leads the fusion of UX (sites, applications) and PX (games) design, and is engaged in research and development of products and services that utilize AI, IoT, DLT, NFT, and other future technologies.

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