User Interface & Visual Design

Whitespace is a design education company focused onbuilding up product (UI/UX) designers to meet the fast-paced demand of the tech industry. We’re doing this through education, community, and mentorship.http://www.whitespacecrew.com/

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<H4>Want to elevate your visual design skills and create attractive UI designs? Learn foundational design principles and build a visually attractive portfolio project.</H4>
First impressions matter. Under the umbrella of UX, visual design is the most immediate and tangible. A beautiful interface builds trust, elevates brand perception, and sets the tone for a quality experience. And a well-organized UI invites interaction, reduces confusion, and increases engagement. Through this course, you’ll:
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Go beyond wireframes to create compelling, visually-designed interfaces.
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Learn to see the subtle differences between a good UI and a great UI.
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Learn visual design principles and how to apply them in designing app interfaces.
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Get hands-on, UI design practice by creating a variety of layouts and styles.
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<H2>What You’ll Learn</H2>
You’ll learn how to make an interface look high quality, professional, and on brand, while also being usable and intuitive. We’ll cover foundational principles of grid-based design, typography, color, affordance, and style applied specifically towards designing for mobile and desktop interfaces.
Our class sizes max out at 12 ensuring each student gets quailty instructor time and adequate design feedback to produce excellent work.
<H2> What You’ll Take Away</H2>
Students will leave this foundations class with a portfolio project demonstrating essential UI design concepts and skills, as well as smart practices for handing off UI design to developers, presenting their work, giving meaningful critique, and many more valuable skills for designing interfaces as part of a professional, tech product team. You'll design the interface for a series of mobile screens.
<H2> Course Curriculum</H2>
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Pre-lessons: Understanding Visual Design / UI / IxD / UX
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Week 1: Grids, Typography, & Color in UI
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Week 2: Affordance, Toolbars, & Borders+Shading
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Week 3: Stylizing Data Visualizations & Lists
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Week 4: Visual/UI Project Kick-off
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Week 5: Visual/UI Project Iteration & Refinement
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Week 6: Final Presentations
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<H2> Who this class is for:</H2>
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UX designers who want to improve their visual/UI skills.
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Graphic designers who want to transition into designing UI.
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Self-taught UI designers who want to better understand foundational principles of design.
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<H2> Class format:</H2>
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We'll meet IRL to learn, collaborate, critique, and design.
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Monday & Thursday evenings (onsite), 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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Class will meet twice weekly for 6 weeks starting June 1, 2017.
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Instructor will be available for 1:1 feedback and questions for ½ hour before each session.
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You should expect to spend at least 4 hours per week outside of class for assignments
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Students will be encouraged to collaborate in Slack during the class, where you can ask questions and get feedback from other students and the instructors between sessions.
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<H2> Instructor:</H2>
Sarah Harrison is a creative facilitator and meditation instructor with a background leading UX design and product management at startups like TaskRabbit & True&Co. She’s now an independent consultant working to empower people to put their creative work into the world. 
Curious to learn more? <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whitespace-info-session-design-night-classes-tickets-34012127188" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Join us for an info session on May 11</A>
Questions? info@whitespacecrew.com
 
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Refund Policy
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Cancel 1 week before first class: Full Refund minus a non-refundable cancellation fee of $150.
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Cancel within the first week: Charged for 1 week of class, and reimbursed the remaining fees paid for the course.
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No refund after first week.
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       Please notify us by emailing vivian@whitespacecrew.com for refund.

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