I haven't studied in an art school. 1
I don't think I've ever been inside one. 2
My favorite subject in school was mathematics and I didn't like to draw. 3
Never in my life I would ever consider becoming a designer. 4
My friend and a business partner, at the time, who was a graphic designer. 5
He went to an art school and then was a regular guy the graphic designer. 6
And one day I discover that he didn't know how to draw. 7
He couldn't draw and I give him a strange look. 8
“What do you mean, you can't draw?” 9
“You're a graphic designer,right?” 10
He goes like, “That's fun, isn't it?” 11
He explains, that to be a designer, you don't have to know how to draw. 12
You don't have to have some innate talent for creativity or be a flamboyant artist. 13
Design has rules, and techniques, and guidelines, and you just need to learn how to follow them. 14
I was shocked. 15
I thought, "Wait a second!", like, I felt like, I just discovered some amazing secret, this world has been hiding 16
from me. 17
And in this part of the course, this is exactly what I want to teach you. 18
All of those little tricks and guidelines, that make something look so design. And I want to teach you 19
and show you, how simple it is to turn something that is, you know, just random content and turn it into a beautiful 20
design composition. 21
I will give you assignments and practice exercises, so you can get your hands dirty. 22
We will learn how to use a design tool called Figma. 23
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 24
out. 25
We'll learn new features as we go and as we practice through different designs. And as a matter of fact, 26
design isn't really in the tool. 27
You don't become a graphic designer or a web designer, just by learning Photoshop or a Sketch or whatever. 28
It's, design is a mental skill, in reality. It's not that, you know, creativity that people really think about. 29
It's obviously there is a lot of creative part inside, 30
but often it's a mental skill and its a way of looking at things. 31
Sort of like, the way the car mechanic looks at that car, and hears the engine of the car, and then understands, 32
just by looking at something and just by hearing the sound, where to tighten up the screws and where 33
to loosen them up. 34
I'm going to teach you this exact design skill, so you can take a blank canvas and create something very 35
attractive out of it, something that people will pay you good money for.