UI/UX design course for beginners in Kiev

Course description

For 6 months you will go from the fundamentals of graphic editors to the ability to hear the client and create effective design solutions. Minimum of cold theory. A focus will be placed on the practical solution of real problems.

On the course, we will learn to understand the customer, explore his business, offer a creative way to solve problems, develop a design. We will work with different platforms and tools, learn to see the possibilities, think broadly, throw ideas on paper, prototype, communicate with programmers, invent many solutions and choose the best from it, create beautiful and well-designed layouts, present your solution to real clients. And, of course, we will supplement your portfolio with 4 projects.

We teach not detail but principles of design. You will learn to answer the question “Why is it necessary for the client” and “Why is this so?”

For whom

beginners in the field of design, who is older than 16 years and with knowledge of English not lower than Pre-Intermediate

to all who aim to simplify the interaction of man and system to well understandable actions

graphic designers who decided to engage in the field of web design

Course instructors

Mikhail Samovarov

Co-founder and Art-director at LEAGUE, Design Agency

Svetlana Lubnina

UI/UX Design Team Lead at Semalt

Vadym Silyava

BA / UX Lead at Trinetix

What will you be able to

Understand the principles of design in the technical (composition, color theory and fonts) and psychological (gestalt principles, the psychology of human perception of the site) ways

Understand business tasks, manage the basics of business analysis and speak with the client in one language

See both competent and unsuccessful designs, and to explain reasonably what is wrong with the last ones

Find ideas and offer concepts for design solutions

Create a design for landing pages, admin panels and mobile applications

Work in Photoshop, InVision Studio, Sketch App

Present yourself and your product in English

Program

Preparation for the beginning

Immediately after passing the interview and enrollment, the student starts preparing for studies. As a first homework assignment, the student receives literature and links to video lessons, with which he will be acquainted before the start of the course.

Pre-course

Are you not familiar with Photoshop? Pre-course includes two weeks of preparation, for which you will learn all the necessary techniques in Photoshop to create beautiful interfaces. Useful information only.

Module 1. Promo-site

We start with the right things: the ability to hear the client, understand the audience of the project, come up with a solution, design it first on paper, and then in the graphics editor. In this module we go through the basic design themes for creating a layout: composition, color, grid, navigation, typography. Instead of wandering in details, students will manage gestalt principles of visual design, Nielsen’s heuristics for interfaces, and principled approaches to building navigation.

At the end of the module, students will develop a unique design solution for the real client, test it and defend their results.

Tools: Photoshop, Sketch App, InVision, Power Point, Adobe Kuler, paper, markers.

Module 2. Admin Panel

This time, the tasks become more complicated, and we will start to create not pages of the selling site, but a real admin panel with many features and pages. We begin with more advanced UX techniques, and then we will analyze the psychology of human perception, the features of human memory and vision. For better understanding of the design building blocks, we will firstly understand the objects, hierarchies, and properties. We will learn how a person searches for the necessary information, how this person discards the unnecessary one. Also in this module we will study data visualization, laws by Walt Disney, animation of interfaces.

At the end of this module, students will design the admin panel and defend it before the client. And, of course, add this work to their portfolios.

Tools: Photoshop, Sketch App, InVision, InVision Studio, Power Point, paper, markers.

Module 3. Mobile application

This module is built around design development for various platforms: from mobile applications to AR / VR design. The main focus will be on the development of mobile application. We will learn to understand the developers, correctly represent the results of their work, and learn the basics of HTML / CSS. The final part of the module will be devoted to the preparation of your portfolio, effective methods of presenting yourself and your work, conducting interviews in front of the employers.

To complete the course, we will present our designs to the client, prepare the portfolio, finalize the design of our start-up (Global Project) and meet with potential employers.

Tools: Photoshop, Sketch App, InVision, InVision Studio, Google Analytics, Dribbble, Behance, Power Point, paper, markers.

Pro Tips and Career Consulting

The final part of the training will be based on pro design elements: animation, pro-techniques, designing in multi-discipline teams, HTML basics, etc. Particular attention will be paid to the creation of a portfolio, the presentation of your ideas and projects, Business English and advices from a career specialist. Students will create a third project for a real customer.