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Guess what, you have just found your first client and this guy, his name is Bruno.

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He has a huge idea they're going to create a new product to take on Amazon.

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Is he shopping on Amazon isn't the best.

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I mean, sure, you can find lots of stuff, but the whole experience design, there's room for improvement.

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And Bruno, that works at Kako Corp., one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world.

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Well, he wants to take on Amazon and build their own shopping experience.

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And they found you as a designer to lead the charge, to design their product, their mobile and web

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presence, to take on Amazon.

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Now, this is the first part of any design project that you may have.

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If this idea of meeting the client, you meet someone that needs your expertise, but you're taking

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this course because you're starting from scratch or you already have some knowledge and you want to

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improve upon it now because everyone has different skill levels.

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With this course, we're going to assume you have already met the client and you're starting to work

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right away, just like we have with Bruno.

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At the end of the course, we have some extra bits for you to show you how you may find and get your

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first clients.

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But we also want to start with the actual practical designer things to get started on the course, because

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I know you're getting excited to learn.

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So the first step that we're going to take is to learn the skills and have that dream portfolio by the

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end of this course.

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So we're going to start designing the product that Bruno wants and eventually have a finished design

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system and portfolio so that when we come back to this idea of meeting a client, you already have the

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portfolio and the skill set needed to start looking for your first clients, whether it's on a freelance

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website or just an existing client.

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But here's a quick thing to get you started.

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When meeting a client, the whole thing is about solving their problems.

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When you meet a client, can you solve their problems?

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Are you the person that can take what they say?

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And while them are you the expert that they have been looking for all along?

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You see, people want somebody that makes their life easier, not harder.

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By the way, you might be wondering something.

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Why are we saying product designer here is in this a web and mobile designer course?

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Well, yeah, it is.

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But the idea of design and designing, as we're going to find out throughout the course, isn't necessarily

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just about the Web or just about mobile.

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Our technology is constantly evolving, there's new platforms coming out all the time, and a designer

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should be flexible.

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Sure, we can just learn web development, but then what happens if we want to build a mobile app or

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a VR app or any sort of product that can be on any platform?

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So we want to describe this course as a product designer because you can design on any platform for

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any product.

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So although we might use web design, mobile design, product design as a term, in the end we want

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to build the skill set so that you can design for any platform that are out there right now and also

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future platforms.

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So our job as designers is to understand the need of the client and create designs that they themselves

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aren't able to do.

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Now, Bruno wants to build this massive shopping experience online that can take on Amazon.

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So how are we going to do that?

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Well, let's dive in and let's start exploring the world of design, the processes and how we might

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go about designing a beautiful product.