After working for two years, how to switch to ui design?

According to the survey, 80% of people will change careers 1 time in the first three years of work, and 40% will even change careers twice, among which nearly 16% will choose to change careers at the age of 30. Changing careers is more like changing an environment and a way of life. If you can't find the joy and value of work in your original job, then what you can gain by sticking to it may really be just the length of service.

But don't be impulsive when changing careers. You should have a deep understanding of the new industry, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of changing careers, and then make a careful decision. In my work, I have been exposed to the related designs of PPT, unit homepage and WeChat work number, and I am very interested in these work contents. Then I suggest you know more about UI design and see if you are really interested in the work of UI design.

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First, what is UI design?

UI (user interface), Chinese name "user interface". PS: (Baidu explained) UI refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and beautiful interface of software.

Generally speaking, the prototype design of all kinds of apps, web software and other products used on mobile phones and computers in everyone's life comes from UI.

This wave of Internet has never stopped before or after. You often see the combination of "internet plus". The popular explanation is that "internet plus" means "various traditional industries in internet plus". But this is not a simple combination of the two, but the use of information and communication technology and Internet platform to deeply integrate the Internet with traditional industries and create a new development ecology.

Among them, what is the close connection with UI?

To put traditional industries on the Internet, it is definitely necessary to display them with an interface, even if it is just a simple webpage. Every product under the Internet, whether PC or mobile, whether traditional or non-traditional, will eventually be presented with UI interface for users to use and view. This requires not only visual output, but also good interaction and user experience.

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For example, we usually don't pay much attention to answering the phone.

When the screen of Apple's mobile phone is not locked, when the incoming call is displayed, the incoming call display is green on the right, and the on-hook display is red on the left. Under normal circumstances, the right hand holds the mobile phone and the thumb operates it. The green light is to answer the phone. This is our routine operation, which is used frequently, so it is close to the right thumb, and the hanging frequency is not high, so the left is far away. From the analysis of color experience, red also has a warning function.

However, if the red button and the green button switch positions, it will not affect the vision, but it is not a good experience, and there may be misoperation of hanging up the phone at any time.

UI is everywhere in our life, no matter how big or small it is, it exists in what you see and touch. Therefore, UI is not only an artist, but also a visual effect and user experience. Moreover, users are very picky, and the demand for vision and experience is constantly changing and improving. So this has also created a UI designer who can still become a hot Internet industry without typing code.

Second, what is the prospect of UI design? The prospect of an industry depends not only on the background development of the industry, but also on the market demand and salary. I don't need to say much about the development of the Internet industry. UI design is one of the indispensable jobs in the Internet industry, so UI design can develop well depending on the Internet.

1, UI design market demand

Is the UI design saturated? What are the employment prospects? Searching for positions about UI design from recruitment websites and checking the corresponding number of recruitment positions can intuitively feel the market demand of UI design.

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Searching for UI-related positions on recruitment websites, there are a large number of enterprises recruiting UI design, which can be intuitively seen that the UI design market is not saturated.

2.UI design processing

From the market recruitment conditions, it can be concluded that the salary of UI design is above 5,000, and the average salary of domestic UI design is around 10000. UI design has no high requirements for academic qualifications, so the chances of general education entering big factories through UI design are higher.

Third, how to learn UI design? If you want to switch to UI design, I suggest you use your spare time to try to teach yourself. Because you are in a public institution, you may have less overtime. First, try to understand the real UI design by yourself, and judge whether your imaginary UI design is consistent with the real UI design, and whether you can maintain a continuous enthusiasm for UI design. Share a weekly study plan here, and you can make a new study plan according to your own situation.

The simpler the collocation of elements, the more you can examine the basic skills of a designer. Without excellent technology and solid basic skills, it is difficult to accurately convey the tonality and marketing selling points of products.

We all know the importance of creative thinking to designers, but we can't ignore the necessity of basic skills to designers. Only by persisting in constant weight-bearing training and solid artistic foundation can we easily master various styles in future commercial actual combat.

Week 1: Hand-painted

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The focus of hand-drawing is mainly to cultivate students' body structure and the relationship between light and space, which is an enlightenment of aesthetic cultivation. At present, the most popular vector illustrations are closely related to hand drawing.

Week 2 and Week 3: Learn the basic software of PS and AI.

To learn software from scratch, you need to use actual cases to learn, which makes it easier to get started. Moreover, the learning of UI design is not only a simple learning software tool. Many people think that UI design only needs to know PS, AI, etc. In fact, it is more important to understand the meaning behind design through actual cases, that is, design thinking and creative understanding.

But just learning to think is not enough. It is necessary to strengthen the basic skills of design and master the software comprehensively.

Week 4 and Week 5: Plane Composition, Logo

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Master the points, lines and surfaces in graphic design and extend them to logo design. Logo includes graphics on the one hand and fonts on the other, so it is very basic to understand the text structure. If you learn it well at this stage, the cost is unbelievable.

And in the study of logo brand, we should study the form, temperament, basic attributes, thinking mode and standard drawing of logo in depth. A simple figure has evolved into an ever-changing shape through morphological deformation. Are you afraid that you can't design so many different Logo?

For example, from the shape, a circle can become a solid circle, a hollow circle, a semicircle, an ellipse and a semicircle. Can it be associated with eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs, hats and water cups?

Week 6: Complete the design of brand logo and VI manual.

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This week, the focus is on Party A's thinking design. Yes, that annoying father of Party A needs to learn to put himself in the other's shoes.

The whole learning content in the first stage is very basic, and the purpose is to cultivate design thinking. As the saying goes, you can't design a good product if you know what users think?

Week 7: Response Website, One Screen Website

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The composition, color, font, function, buttons, design specifications and typesetting specifications of web page design are all described from cases.

Week 8: Background Data

In addition to the background design, more is the background data statistical processing, how to make it simple and clear.

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Week 9: E-commerce Design

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The homepage design of e-commerce platform, every month, major shopping platforms will have full-station activities with different themes, so in fact, the talent gap of e-commerce design is very large.

Week 10: Taobao platform details page, backstage

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In this part, you can apply for Taobao shop and put your own products on the shelves. Any learning is not as fast as getting started directly. Practice and practice, and experience the specifications of major platforms personally, and you will understand it more clearly.

Week 1 1: C4D, Banna

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Entering 3D training, enriching visual effects, improving employment competitiveness and knowing more skills are also the reasons why we should constantly learn and improve ourselves.

The second stage is more about web design training, focusing on mastering the interface design specifications and output specifications of enterprise stations, and being able to design pages according to the real needs of enterprises.

Week 12: user experience, competitive product analysis, prototype diagram

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This week, I began to design the APP, analyze the competing products through data analysis, and draw the prototype of the APP with Axure.

Week 13: icon

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Interesting icons are also an important part of a complete APP design.

Week 14: Interface and Capsule

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Talk about pop-up pages and flashing pages through icon applications.

Week 15: Interface design

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Continue to complete the APP and learn how to cut, name, label, package and hand over (whether the front-end brothers and sisters can play depends on this week's learning content)

Week 16: operation interface

The picture comes from the internet.

The user's thinking training in marketing promotion can grasp the pain points of users and improve the overall operation interface to achieve the purpose of marketing promotion. This is generally through pop-up windows and splash screens that suddenly jump out, such as publicity pages, to increase visual appeal and promote users to click.

Week 17: interactive effect

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Learning AE well will be very rewarding, because it can accurately convey your thoughts and show the expression effect you want. This is bound to become a popular trend of UI. If you don't want to be eliminated by the market, you must keep learning!

At this stage, you can try to design your own APP, you can choose your favorite theme, there is no limit, and you can become the content of the portfolio with zero-based career change.

Week 18: Front End

As we all know, it is the front end that works closely with UI designers. As a UI designer, only by knowing the front end can we cooperate better and improve work efficiency. We can learn HTML5, CSS3 and so on.

Of course, the zero-based self-study UI design also has many disadvantages. Self-study takes a long time. Without a foundation, self-study is more difficult. Compared with people with a certain foundation, they usually study in the fragmented time after work. If you want to make small achievements in the field of software development and find a formal job, it will take about a year. Self-study needs strong self-control, can withstand loneliness, and insists on studying regularly every day. However, it is easy to fall into a dead end and give up halfway when encountering technical difficulties. Therefore, most zero-based partners with a clear career change purpose will choose training and learning.

If you want to choose training and learning, it is very important to choose a reliable UI training institution. Because if the organization is unreliable, it will not only waste your money, but also waste your time. Finally, if you don't find your favorite UI design job, the psychological gap will be great, which will affect your future career development.

In fact, there are only two results in changing careers, either success or failure. As long as you work hard, at least you won't regret it. Try it when you are young, otherwise, as you get older, the cost of trial and error will be higher and you will be more timid when you change careers. Therefore, if you are really tired of your current working condition, I suggest you take action as soon as possible, get a deeper understanding and make a careful decision. I wish you a new direction in life as soon as possible.