Late Nights with Trav and Los
How to become a designer in 2016
Episode Summary
In this episode we talk about how to become a designer without going to design school.
Episode Notes
Episode Music: https://soundcloud.com/dyallas/inquisition
Episode 88: Becoming a designer without design school
How do we do that?
- Learn the tools
2. Sketch and photoshop
3. Origami and Framer JS for prototyping
- Take online courses
3. Envato
4. Coursera
5. Lynda
6. CreativeLive
7. Skillshare
- Get feedback
4. From a mentor or a peer
5. Online feedback communities
6. HH Design
7. HH Illustrate
8. Designer’s Guild
9. The Designers League
10. IxDA
- Build fundamentals
5. The design of Everyday Things (Donald Norman): A well known primer on the rules of usable design, with good and bad examples.
6. Universal Principles of Design (William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler): An encyclopedia of key design concepts and examples
7. Don’t Make Me Think! (Steven Krug): Web usability and user testing
8. Thinking with Type (Ellen Lupton): A guide to typography for print and on screens
9. Graphic Design: The new Basics (Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips): An introduction to graphic design and how to use visual language in design
- Stay up to date with the field
6. Sidebar
7. It’s Nice That
8. InVision Digest
9. Product Design Weekly
- Go to IRL design meetups
7. CreativeMornings
8. Dribbble Meetups
9. Designers + Geeks Meetups
- Gain experience
8. Find an internship
9. Start and Finish a side project