UPDATED ► Oct 2020 (New Lectures added about Figma and Adobe XD)
Make your Web Design process simple, effective and painless with this Web Design course
UPDATED ► Oct 2020 (New Lectures added about Figma and Adobe XD)
Make your Web Design process simple, effective and painless with this Web Design course
From the past few years, job of a traditional Web Designer has been drastically changed. Designing for each and every screen (Responsive Web Design) is not easy. Questions like these come to mind of every young web designer e.g. How to change layout? How to setup grids for responsive web design? Which content to hide and show?
Now in every Web Design project, we designers
Gather project requirements (from client and users)
Sketch early Ideas of your website
Wire-frame those ideas
Convert wireframes to Design Mockups
Getting Specs and Style Guides ready for Developers
Creating Prototypes to show the flows and interactions
How to design Responsive views of your Website in Photoshop
Save time by improving your Web Design Workflow
Every modern designer uses more than 2 to 3 tools in Web Design process. Designers also need to collaborate with Developers a lot so how to solve all these problems.
So in this course, I will show you modern process of creating Responsive web design from gathering information and design briefs from client to creating sketches, wire-frames and prototypes or even style guides for developers.
Tools you will use during this course are
Adobe Photoshop
Balsamiq Mockups
Figma
Adobe XD
Zeplin App
Design frameworks you will touch in this course are
Atomic Design framework
8-Point Grid System
I will show other similar online apps for Web Designers at the end and compare their pros and cons.
Now if you are ready to learn the modern web design and become a top notch Web Designer
Start this course Now
Watch this lesson to see a bit more inside the workflow of a modern web designer course
In this lesson, i will show you the skills you should have before taking this advance web design course
Links to download Photoshop extensions for Web Design
Download all course resources and PDF files
Folder organization or organizing your Design project is a necessary skill. I will show you my process of managing all the folders and sub folders of every Web Design project i take
Web Design is all about better and easier conversion to developed Code. So if you are naming your Photoshop layers and groups poorly, your developers will get into trouble.
You will learn how to name your Photoshop files, layers and groups so your web developers really start loving your Photoshop files
You will learn the naming conventions used by Web Developers in this lesson. I will show you how Developers name their assets and how you are going to name your web design files and assets to make this process seamless
Lets see how well you can organize your web design projects
Further reading about naming and organizing your Photoshop Web Design project
In this lesson, you will learn what makes a good design brief and what you client needs to send you as a design brief. I will also show you different important sections of Design briefs with few actual examples
Links with few examples of good Design briefs
Initial sketches or Ideation is very necessary phase of any digital design project. In this lesson, you will learn how early sketching can help you get ideas out which are hidden in your client's head.
Getting wrong information from a client about a web design project is very common. I will show you few questions i ask every time i start a web design or graphic design project.
Website copy and content of any website is one of most important things you must have before starting your web design. But it must be in some proper format. I will show you and share with you a simple content gathering template i use to gather website content
Download content gathering templates to gather website content
Mood boards are essential part of any design project whether its Web Design or a Branding design project. I will show you how i created a Mood Board using a free online tool
In this lesson, we are just going to build the layout of our website design project leaving out all the details. These early sketches are just to get the ideas flowing and should not be debated on.
I will show you my 3 quick different layouts using ideation and sketching
In this lesson, you will learn the basics of using a wireframing tools called Balsamiq Mockups. I will introduce the interface of Balsamiq mock ups and how simple it is to use
We will create Wireframe using Balsamiq mockups during this lesson. I will show you few shortcut keys to speed up your workflow
We will finalize our wire frame in this lesson using Balsamiq mockups. I will also annotate and put my suggestions and comments on this wire frame
Web Designers follow different frameworks and some don't follow any framework. I will show you the idea behind Atomic Design framework and how we can implement it in our Web Design workflow
8 point grid system is widely used by Google Material Design. I will show you why it is worth using this method in all your Web Design projects
Links to download Wireframes, mood boards and further reading on Atomic Design and 8 point grid system
In this lesson, you will learn how i mix typefaces and get color combinations. And how i picked the fonts for this Wstudio Web Design project
In this lesson, you will learn about Style Guides and why they are important in any UI Design or Web Design project.
In this lesson, i will show you how big companies like Yelp or Sales force use UI Style guides
In this lesson, you will create a Style guide in Photoshop using a PSD template. I will show you what you need to include in your Style Guides and how you can improve them further
In this lesson, i will show you how i created my Typography Scale for this design project. How i have selected different scales for Tablet or Mobile devices or views
Lets see how well you got the ideas
Resources, examples and links to wireframes and UI Style guides
In every web design project, grids and guides play an important role. In this lesson, i will show you how i plan my grids and layout. I will share with you the online tools i normally use to calculate my grid
Links and resources for Modular Grid
How to create a Bootstrap 4 grid along with Baseline Grid using Photoshop?
Lets plan our grid for Desktop or Large browser view using Gridulator and other online grid tools.
You will learn the techniques of planning and using White space using vertical rhythm in your web design projects. I will show you my scale of paddings and margins
In this lesson, you will learn how to set up art boards in Photoshop for Desktop view or large screen design
You will design step by step Hero or header area of my Wstudio web design project
You will design step by step Hero or header area of my Wstudio web design project and we will use Style guide to import buttons and styles and icons
You will design Steps or Our Process area of my Wstudio web design project
You will design Steps or Our Process area of my Wstudio web design project and we will use Style guide to import buttons and styles and icons
You will design the User Reviews section of Wstudio Desktop view and we will use Vertical Rhythm and fine tuning at the end of this lesson as always
Adjusting White space and vertical rhythm sets your web designs apart from other designer. Even few colors and one font with good white space can take your breath away
You will design the TEAM section of Wstudio Desktop view
You will design the TEAM section of Wstudio Desktop view and we will use Vertical Rhythm and fine tuning at the end of this lesson as always
Footer and end of your web design project is very important as it will have all extras and contact forms. In this lesson, will design a nice modern footer of a website
Footer and end of your web design project is very important as it will have all extras and contact forms. In this lesson, will finalize our design by adjusting white space and vertical rhythm
A lot of Web Designers don't know what factors to consider before starting a Responsive Web design.
How many images can we use?
Can this design slow down our page?
Will this site be able to load on mobiles in less than 3 seconds?
Can we load different images on different screen sizes?
A lot of Web Designers don't know what factors to consider before starting a Responsive Web design.
How many images can we use?
Can this design slow down our page?
Will this site be able to load on mobiles in less than 3 seconds?
Can we load different images on different screen sizes?
Here we are going to design for Tablet or Medium view. You will learn how to plan your grid and how much margins we will use on both sides of our Tablet view
In this lesson, you will see how the design changes and switches from Desktop view to Tablet view. You will also convert your site's navigation to hamburger menu icon
In this lesson, you will design the how it works or our process area for Tablet view or Medium sized devices
In this lesson, you will design the TEAM SECTION for Tablet view or Medium sized devices
In this lesson, you will design the FOOTER area of our Tablet view or Medium sized devices
In this lesson, we will calculate our mobile grid which is 400px wide for this exercise. I will show you why i left margins around the design and how it can effect our grid calculations
Adjusting our header of Wstudio Web Design project for Mobile Device view is not easy. You will learn how i shifted my heading and text sizes down to another scale for mobile devices
In this lesson, we will design the "Our Process Steps" section for small devices
In this lesson, we will design the "Our Team" section for small devices
In this lesson, we will design the "Footer" section for small devices. And i will show you how i give the final touches to a web design project by zooming out and in to view problems in design hierarchy and sizes
Please download PSD files and design files used in this course
Most of the designers don't know how their web designs are going to be translated into Code. In this lesson, you will learn what developers need to know about your Web Design
In this lesson, i will show you which Photoshop layer styles can be converted into code easily and which Photoshop styles you need to avoid while designing for web sites
Links to see inspirations and live designs that were once Photoshop Mock ups or images. You should know and see what's possible and whats not
In this lesson, you will learn how to download, install and use Zeplin.io with Photoshop to generate Style Guide for your developers
In this lesson, you will learn generate Style Guide for your developers using Zeplin online tool. You will create different CSS styles for Headings, paragraphs and colors auto-magically
In this lecture, i will compare and show you pros and cons of different Designer and Developer collaboration tools
For this lesson, i will be discussing about Zeplin and Avocode mainly
In this lecture, i will compare and show you pros and cons of different Designer and Developer collaboration tools
I will show you actually working with Avocode and also i will show you few features of Sympli
Handoff to Developers using Figma and Adobe XD
Few top rated tools for Designer and Developer Collaborations
In this lesson, you will learn
New video showing how to use Figma or Adobe XD for showing your Website Prototypes with Developers and Clients
Check out the prototype created in this course along with links to other popular prototyping online apps and tools
In this lesson, i will show you a great method to use icon libraries to create Custom Icon Fonts. You will learn how to use them in HTML and your Photoshop so good news for both Developers and Designers
Scale-able vector graphics are far better than using multiple PNG files or images files. In this lesson, i will show you methods on how to convert your graphics/icons to SVG code and use it in HTML
Now I will tell you where to go next
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