Trying out my first designs
It's been a few weeks since I started out learning UX design and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. I finally have a hobby where I can further explore my creative skills. Within the short period that the internship commenced, I have learned about
- understanding the difference between user's interface and user's experience design,
- empathizing with users in order to be able to design user-centric products
- conducting quantitative and qualitative research as a form of empathizing with users,
- drawing user's persona,
- drawing empathy maps,
- the design thinking process,
- the basics of Figma
- and much more.
After learning the background information relating to the subject, the first assignment that was given that has to do with actual design was to design a credit card check-out page for an E-commerce site. Below is what I designed. I know it is not all that pretty, but as I said, it was my first. We all can remember our first time, right?
The first one done and dusted, I got another assignment yesterday to design a hero page for an E-commerce platform. of course, I needed some inspiration, so I checked online for some. I also thought about doing something close to being original, so I visited @itsmrhino page and felt I could make a pseudo-hero page design of his upcoming website. I also took a screenshot of his logo and below is what I managed to design. This was just purely for practice purposes.
In the design above, I tried to put the knowledge of component creation, auto-layout, and style guide into practice. There is still a long way to go because I could not apply the skills quite well. Learning continues next week as classes are usually Tuesdays and Thursdays. I just hope this design would be enough for me to get promoted to the next stage.
What do you guys think? Comments, constructive feedback, and suggestions about how I can improve my skills would be appreciated. I know we've got some gurus on this blockchain.
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@gentleshaid for someone just getting started you are amazing! I really love both of these. I am especially fond of the second one.😁
For you to pick my soon-to-launch site as an inspiration for your work is humbling. I really don't know what to say. However, I will be sending you a tip for sure. This is just amazing, and I think I may know who I might have in my Rolodex for a new designer for landing pages and stuff.
I just want you to know I look forward to logging onto Hive every day because of you and a handful of folks like you. Without you and people like you, this place would just be a useless token and a bunch of dApps.
Hive has taken a more interesting dimension for me too since I started interacting with you. I'm really glad you made that post that made me discover you.
Thank you for the encouraging remarks concerning the designs. I hope to grow from amateurish designs to really good ones and, most importantly, have fun designing. You are already a major part in my design story
I didn't think that design was amateurish. In fact, if you have the source code for the hero page you did for my site, I would love to have it.
I'm yet to code the image. Don't know how to do that yet but can easily send the Figma link to an editable version of the design
That works.
I will send it over once I get to my pc. BTW, thanks for the tip. It feels good that someone genuinely appreciate my nooby effort. I hope to improve significantly as time progresses.
You will. Just keep pluggin away.
I'm glad to read on how far you have gone with your new path, with the two designs, you have had a good start, I can perceived your talent in designing skills, the more you try, the better you become. Keep it up!