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how to become a designer
how to become a designer without going to design school
Steal, steal, steal at first. Don’t worry about being original – that will come later, once you are more comfortable with your craft. When you learn a musical instrument, you learn how to play other people’s songs before composing your own. Same goes for design. Steal like an artist.
Go to Dribbble for inspiration on some of the best designers. Check out pttrns for iOS inspiration, and patterntap for website inspiration.
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how to draw
The biggest mistake is jumping into Photoshop too fast. Learning Photoshop does not make you a designer, just like buying paintbrushes does not make you an artist. Start with the foundation.
- You don’t even have to get that good at drawing. Just learn some basics so you can be comfortable sketching with a pen.
- You only have to do one thing to learn how to draw: get the book You Can Draw in 30 days and practice for half an hour every day for a month. I’ve looked at a lot of drawing books and this is one of the best.
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Learn graphic design theory
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Start with the book Picture This. It’s a story book of Little Red Riding hood, but will teach you the foundations of graphic design at the s
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Learn about color, typography, and designing with a grid. If you can find a local class to teach the basics of graphic design, take it.
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Go through a few of these tutorials every day.
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Learn some basics in user experience
There are a lot of books about user experience. Start with these two quick reads that will get you in the right mindset:
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Don’t Make Me Think!
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Learn how to use Illustrator
Hooray! Now you’ve got a pretty solid foundation – both visual and UX. You’re ready to learn Photoshop. Actually, I recommend starting with Illustrator first and then moving on to Photoshop after. Illustrator is what designers use to make logos and icons.
There are a ton of books, online tutorials and in-person classes to learn Illustrator. Choose the style that works best for you. Here are the books I found especially helpful to learn the basics of Illustrator:
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Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book – It’s boring, but if you get through at least half of it, you’ll know your way around Illustrator pre
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Vector Basic Training – This book teaches you how to make things in Illustrator that actually look good.
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Now for the fun stuff! Follow these online tutorials and be impressed by what you can make. Here are two my favorites – a logo and a scenic
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Learn Photoshop
Carve out an hour or two every day to go through some tutorials, and you’ll be impressed by how quickly you progress.
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There are a million and one tutorials out there. A lot of them are crap. Fortunately, there are sites with really high quality tutorials. PS
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Here’s a good photoshop tutorial to make an iPhone app.
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Here’s another good photoshop tutorial to create a website mockup.
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Build your portfolio
How do you build a portfolio if you’re just starting out for the first time? The good news is you don’t need to work on real projects with real clients to build a portfolio. Make up your own side projects. Here are a few ideas:
- Design silly ideas for t-shirts.
- Find poorly designed websites and redesign them.
- Got an idea for an iPhone app? Mock it up.
- Join a team at Startup Weekend and be a designer on a weekend project.
- Enter a 99 designs contest to practice designing to a brief.
- Do the graphic design exercises in the Creative Workshop book.
- Find a local nonprofit and offer to design for free.
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