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Hey Harry, Maybe random, but I’m obsessed with great explanations. I collect them 🙃 Here are 3 of my favorites: [PSA 📣 On Monday, I’m hosting a Live Redesign Session at 12:30 PM Pacific. Reply with links to designs you want my help on. Particularly looking for SAAS designs, but anything is welcome. 👉 Register here] How to learn to backflip (in 1 day!)Apparently this is possible. Here's the TLDR: Get a good coach. Learn each sub-skill individually. Put the sub-skills together. Remove the guardrails.
[📣 Note: Learn UI Design, Learn UX Design, and Landing Page Academy spring enrollment is open for 6 more days 🎉] How to draw a droplet of waterI love this one-pager. See (a) the whole picture, then (b) the step-by-step, then (c) the best practices. How the Fourier transform worksA bit nerdy, but this image is too good not to share. Take something intimidating. Break it into parts. Show how each part works. Put it back together. (Note: if you really want to go deep, 3Blue1Brown’s video on the Fourier transform is also insanely good 🤯) Anyhow, I’m obsessed with good curriculum. It’s a thing of beauty, rarely appreciated 🤓 But it’s also, like, my whole dang job. I try to explain design as clearly and practically as possible. And I create a path for my students to get really good. Like learning to backflip in record time, there’s a process here 😎 For instance, one of the most fundamental skills of UI design is alignment. (Sometimes people mistakenly call this “grids”, but alignment is a skill; grids are merely a tool – and a somewhat outdated one at that 🫱🎤) Let’s look at the process of learning alignment via Learn UI Design... 1/ Watch the lessonStart by watching a 34-minute video on alignment: The video lesson covers all SORTS of sub-skills to master alignment:
And more... It’s all presented via a realistic-yet-carefully-designed example UI that you watch over my shoulder as I narrate my strategies and finish the design 😎 2/ Do the homeworkLook, we're adults here. I'm not forcing you to do any homework. But at least hear how I designed the assignments… Like many homework assignments in Learn UI Design, the alignment assignment focuses on mastery via skill isolation. It’s a Figma design with EVERYTHING done for you (colors, fonts, etc) EXCEPT the alignment. (This is a well-studied pedagogical result: if you isolate the skill you’re trying to learn, you learn more efficiently 🤓) 3/ Check your work against common mistakesThousands of folks have done Learn UI Design, and guess what: sometimes they make similar mistakes! So, for many assignments, I created a “Common Mistakes” doc that acts as the “first round of feedback” and helps tighten things up 👍 (Learn UX Design has similar "suggested solution" files) 4/ Get feedback from a mentorThen the last step is to get community feedback from mentors. The student mentors are graduates of my courses who’ve come back to help others – and you’ll receive feedback on every homework and submission you post 🙂 Anyhow, that’s how my courses work. And students have gotten great results 😎 All 3 of my courses are open for enrollment until Tuesday night:
Any questions? I’ll answer all 😎 Cheers, PS. On Monday, I’m hosting a Live Redesign Session. Reply with submissions you want to see me riff on, or register at the link. See ya there 👋 |