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I haven't studied in an art school.
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I don't think I've ever been inside one.
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My favorite subject in school was mathematics and I didn't like to draw.
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Never in my life I would ever consider becoming a designer.
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My friend and a business partner, at the time, who was a graphic designer.
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He went to an art school and then was a regular guy the graphic designer.
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And one day I discover that he didn't know how to draw.
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He couldn't draw and I give him a strange look.
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“What do you mean, you can't draw?”
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“You're a graphic designer,right?”
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He goes like, “That's fun, isn't it?”
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He explains, that to be a designer, you don't have to know how to draw.
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You don't have to have some innate talent for creativity or be a flamboyant artist.
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Design has rules, and techniques, and guidelines, and you just need to learn how to follow them.
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I was shocked.
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I thought, "Wait a second!", like, I felt like, I just discovered some amazing secret, this world has been hiding
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from me.
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And in this part of the course, this is exactly what I want to teach you.
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All of those little tricks and guidelines, that make something look so design. And I want to teach you
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and show you, how simple it is to turn something that is, you know, just random content and turn it into a beautiful
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design composition.
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I will give you assignments and practice exercises, so you can get your hands dirty.
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We will learn how to use a design tool called Figma.
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It's a simple tool and we're going to learn it in a step by step manner. So we're not gonna turn it inside
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out.
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We'll learn new features as we go and as we practice through different designs. And as a matter of fact,
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design isn't really in the tool.
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You don't become a graphic designer or a web designer, just by learning Photoshop or a Sketch or whatever.
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It's, design is a mental skill, in reality. It's not that, you know, creativity that people really think about.
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It's obviously there is a lot of creative part inside,
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but often it's a mental skill and its a way of looking at things.
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Sort of like, the way the car mechanic looks at that car, and hears the engine of the car, and then understands,
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just by looking at something and just by hearing the sound, where to tighten up the screws and where
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to loosen them up.
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I'm going to teach you this exact design skill, so you can take a blank canvas and create something very
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attractive out of it, something that people will pay you good money for.