Le Wagon: UI Design Crash Course
About This Event:
Learn to quickly build a set of icons, a logo, a newsletter banner or even a mockup for your app. We'll cover everything you need to know to build your graphical assets using the latest and coolest resources for the best pictures, icons, colours, fonts, and patterns. You will also get general knowledge about standard UI components as well as designer tricks and secrets.
What you will learn:👉Use Figma, a popular graphical tool used in startups, to refine your icons, change their colour and shape, export them, and customise any assets (logo, icons, newsletter banner, etc.)👉Discover UI components and how they are built👉Design tricks and tips
🔑 You will receive a link to access the webinar over email from Zoom after you've registered on Eventbrite, so please keep an eye on emails & spam folder for this around 30 mins before the event.
My Impressions
This was a great format for an event. The organizer and presenter were extremely organized and kept a remote online audience extremely engaged. The various topics that were presented included finding assets, choosing fonts, choosing colors, and researching front end code snippets. I had very low expectations for the event but was impressed. This was a great event because it covered some detailed topics that we were never able to cover in class. After each topic, the presenter used a challenge to put into perspective our new found knowledge of fonts or colors. For example, after talking about fonts, the presenter showed us various random fonts and asked us to identify the brand that corresponded with the specific font. This was a simple exercise that was very effective in realizing how powerful carefully selecting specific details, like colors and fonts, can have on our awareness of a brand and its design language. I was surprised by how many companies I can identify through just fonts, colors etc. I am glad I found this specific event because It has forced me to take a second look at my high-fi design and make some pretty serious changes. I also learned how to use figma which is a more illustration intensive tool versus xD. If I was starting from scratch I would definitely start at the more illustrative end of things. I am now looking at more events to be apart of because of the density of the information delivery and the quality content that live presenters have to produce to keep an audience engaged. One interesting thing we also talked about was finding fronted code snippets. This was a really cool addition to the webinar that I wasn’t expecting and showed that you don’t have to necessarily build a functional UI from scratch if you start with premade code snippets and design assets.