Hi guys! First time poster, so I hope this is the right place for this. See, I've been a graphic/web designer for four years now, but I'd really like to branch out into mobile UI design. A lot of web design does take mobile devices into consideration, so I'm familiar with many of the particulars...but there's no substitute for experience.
Therefore, I'd like to volunteer my services to a app development project in return for experience and portfolio material. If anyone is interested, I can link you to my portfolio so you can see examples of my past work.
I'd be interested in testing. PM me.
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Good mobile UI designer is a real treasure ) Please share your portfolio link.
Sure thing! My portfolio is over at redrobinarts.com. A lot of the relevant examples should be in the Business section.
redlethe said:
Sure thing! My portfolio is over at redrobinarts.com. A lot of the relevant examples should be in the Business section.
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I've seen your work. I'm a web designer and it would be great to have a graphics designer of your skill. Maybe we can work together?
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Sure! Did you have a specific project in mind? Feel free to drop me a pm if you'd rather not discuss it in public.
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Guys, I'm posting this in the general section put of respect for the forum and it's rules, and mods, feel free to move this thread if you feel it's absolutely necessary. I just wanted to give people in the Android community the ability to sound off on what they feel Steve Jobs meant to the industry. I don't care if you liked the man, his products, or his company, but it's my personal opinion that we as an industry have lost, possibly the one person who made the entire cellular revolution possible. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch, but I CAN be objective, and CAN give credit where credit is due. It's my personal opinion that Steve Jobs was a visionary, a pioneer, and genius, and meant more to the people of the 21st Century than any other person possibly could have. Anyone who's old enough to remember (I'm 31) the onset of the "tech revolution", should be able to give props to Jobs for being at the forefront of the movement, and those of you who are younger...I hope you can have the proper perspective to recognize just what the man's influence means/meant to ALL of us.
So sound off guys...give me your opinions. Just please, be respectful and mature about this. Mods... feel free to shut this down if you see it getting out of hand, please. I'm not trying to start a flame thread here...I'd just like to have some good, objective opinions on the man's influence, NOT his personality or Apple's "politics" in the industry. Respect TRUE legends people!
I agree he is one of the greatest innovators of our time, I own an Ipod and it is truly peculiar.
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Im not trying to micromanage but ahh. This topic has nothing to do with droid 3. Suggestions: apple forum or maybe off topic forum.
I agree 100%. I must have overlooked the Off Topic section on my Galaxy Tab…my bad. Mods can move it ther if they want, but I didn't post in the Apple forums for a reason. I wanted to give the Android community the ability to express their opinions on Jobs' legacy in the industry, regardless of platform. I'm not home at the moment, so I can't move the thread to another location from my Tab, but mods are more than welcome to do so, if they feel it's waranted. I've been impressed with the objectivity here in the D3 forums, so I figured I'd give people here a chance to sound off first.
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My 2 cents; though the company seems to be working in a very sketchy manor as far as their I guess mobile division goes. I do favor their computers over the ones I have bought/built and believe the extent of innovation he has brought to the table is pretty amazing.
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I don't like apple, and i don't care for their closed source, narrow minded ideas, and I don't like their forced hardware control. That being said, i think he was quite the businessman.
He made a huge impact on the entire electronics industry, but I will forever prefer my open source, porn-watching device.
What can i study in order for me to work as a web designer/ ui designer? keep in mind that i don't wanna study engineering , i dont like all of those math courses, algebra, physics ... do they teach it in universities or do i have to sign up in an institute?
I dont think there's a career such as "ui design" but there must a "web design" right? there must a "branch" in graphic design, i dont think im right for grphic design since im terrible at drawing what do you guys think ?
It would be IT where I'm going to college. That would include html, mySQL, php, and some other happy fun stuff Possibly Javascript.
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UI design is generally an overlap of developers and graphic designers. A graphic designer is needed to make it look good, but a developer is needed to make it practical. Between them both, you get a good UI. Well, that's the theory anyway.
If you want to do UI design then you need to decide whether you want to do it from the design point of view, or the development point of view. If you want to actually build websites, then go the development route. If you don't, graphic design is probably the best bet.
There's also games development and design, which does have a particular branch that involves GUI design, but that's usually part of a quite heavy games programming course.
I've personally never heard of a UI design course. I'm not saying that there isn't one, but after 15 years in the industry I've never heard of anyone doing it as a job, either, other than in games development.
johncmolyneux said:
UI design is generally an overlap of developers and graphic designers. A graphic designer is needed to make it look good, but a developer is needed to make it practical. Between them both, you get a good UI. Well, that's the theory anyway.
If you want to do UI design then you need to decide whether you want to do it from the design point of view, or the development point of view. If you want to actually build websites, then go the development route. If you don't, graphic design is probably the best bet.
There's also games development and design, which does have a particular branch that involves GUI design, but that's usually part of a quite heavy games programming course.
I've personally never heard of a UI design course. I'm not saying that there isn't one, but after 15 years in the industry I've never heard of anyone doing it as a job, either, other than in games development.
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Thank you, your reply was really helpful , i want to do it from the design point of view, something i've learned here in xda is that a programmer does not make a good designer and viceversa, sometimes people make great programs but they're hideous, with lack of good taste and too many things/colors going on for example
What about " web design" is there a actually a course for that?
Yup, i studied that. Okay, not web design, but that was included. I studied multimedia design. That included web design, 3D, photography, and film.
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Chad_Petree said:
Thank you, your reply was really helpful , i want to do it from the design point of view, something i've learned here in xda is that a programmer does not make a good designer and viceversa, sometimes people make great programs but they're hideous, with lack of good taste and too many things/colors going on for example
What about " web design" is there a actually a course for that?
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I attended a graphic design program (contuing education) at a college nearby. If you're looking to learn the basics (illustrator, PS, InDesign.. etc.) Then I was would start there. But if you're already familiar with image editing and want to learn how to apply it to mobile UI design you can start by looking here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814. But like John mentioned, there are two types of designing regarding UI.. basic modifying of images in the system is quit simple and only requires image editing software and 7zip (might want to learn how to edit mode.9/9patch and m10 images correctly as well). But if you're looking to do some of the more advanced designing you will need to do a bit of reading/searching. Thankfully, you can find all the info here at XDA.
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Yup, i studied that. Okay, not web design, but that was included. I studied multimedia design. That included web design, 3D, photography, and film.
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multimedia design ? sounds nice, for how long? 4 years?
I only studied for 1 year, but i did plan on 4 years with 3 of those in Australia, but i got bored and stopped after one. And it was pricey. 20K per year.
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I attended a graphic design program (contuing education) at a college nearby. If you're looking to learn the basics (illustrator, PS, InDesign.. etc.) Then I was would start there. But if you're already familiar with image editing and want to learn how to apply it to mobile UI design you can start by looking here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814. But like John mentioned, there are two types of designing regarding UI.. basic modifying of images in the system is quit simple and only requires image editing software and 7zip (might want to learn how to edit mode.9/9patch and m10 images correctly as well). But if you're looking to do some of the more advanced designing you will need to do a bit of reading/searching. Thankfully, you can find all the info here at XDA.
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Did you have a degree before studing graphic design? I need to know basics , since i know nothing, i just have my highschool degree, i want to do this as my career, not just a hobby
I know you're not asking me, but i did not have a degree in "graphics" before i started. It was a private school, so if you show them some "dineros", you're in. But hey, you have to learn it from some place ney? It doesn't hurt knowing some basic stuff in PS or Illustrator though.
In fairness, there's a LOT of online tutorials for learning techniques in all the popular design/illustration apps. It certainly wouldn't do any harm to get a head start.
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In fairness, there's a LOT of online tutorials for learning techniques in all the popular design/illustration apps. It certainly wouldn't do any harm to get a head start.
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Of course that's what i plan on doing , study by my own till i start the program
You do not need to excel at drawing to study graphic art. You just need an eye for design and color; the rest can be learned at school. Having said that, talent is extremely important to find success as a graphic artist/designer.
Web design courses are usually included in graphic arts program, but you may also find exclusive web design programs. There’s one web design and development program at California College San Diego that trains graduates in both front-end design and back-end development of websites. Find more details on the link below:
cc-sd.edu/graphic-arts/bachelors/web-design-and-development
ralphak said:
You do not need to excel at drawing to study graphic art. You just need an eye for design and color; the rest can be learned at school. Having said that, talent is extremely important to find success as a graphic artist/designer.
Web design courses are usually included in graphic arts program, but you may also find exclusive web design programs. There’s one web design and development program at California College San Diego that trains graduates in both front-end design and back-end development of websites. Find more details on the link below:
cc-sd.edu/graphic-arts/bachelors/web-design-and-development
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good one
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One of my good friends who is a priest and a doctor is asking for a little help with creating a website for his nonprofit charity organization. Anyone have any recommendations of free / cheap website creation templates or hosts to look for creating something for him? I was looking at wix.com, but also want to see what my other options are, or if anyone has used any of these hosts. Also what kind of monthly / year costs are we looking at?
For those that are curious the basic charity is helping out AIDs / HIV children in Ghana Africa, which can be kept alive for about 40 cents a day.
Wordpress is probably the most popular website platform, and it's free.
http://wordpress.com/
It's touted as a blog platform, but I've seen many sites built with it and only a few of them were actually blogs. If you're just looking for a site with pretty much static information on it then it's apparently easy to use, but you can also use plugins to make the site more dynamic. It all depends what you need from it.
I'd recommend giving it a look and trying it out.
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Wordpress is probably the most popular website platform, and it's free.
http://wordpress.com/
It's touted as a blog platform, but I've seen many sites built with it and only a few of them were actually blogs. If you're just looking for a site with pretty much static information on it then it's apparently easy to use, but you can also use plugins to make the site more dynamic. It all depends what you need from it.
I'd recommend giving it a look and trying it out.
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Correction
WordPress is divided into WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress.com is for relatively new users. Your blog is hosted and managed by WordPress, but you do not have much freedom of customization since WordPress.com doesn't support plugins. Also, unless you buy a domain, your website will be www.yourwebsitename.wordpress.com
Wordpress.org is for slightly experienced users. This alternative requires you to find your own hosting, and install wordpress on it. However, the customization is nnear infinite with a lot of plugin options.
I recommend wordpress.org if you can set up hosting and want a more pleasing experience , and wordpress.com if you just focus on the content rather than the design
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Correction
WordPress is divided into WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress.com is for relatively new users. Your blog is hosted and managed by WordPress, but you do not have much freedom of customization since WordPress.com doesn't support plugins. Also, unless you buy a domain, your website will be www.yourwebsitename.wordpress.com
Wordpress.org is for slightly experienced users. This alternative requires you to find your own hosting, and install wordpress on it. However, the customization is nnear infinite with a lot of plugin options.
I recommend wordpress.org if you can set up hosting and want a more pleasing experience , and wordpress.com if you just focus on the content rather than the design
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Thanks for that. That makes sense now it's been explained. I've clearly spent very little time looking at it myself!
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Thanks for that. That makes sense now it's been explained. I've clearly spent very little time looking at it myself!
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My pleasure.
(ZOMG! I corrected Archer)
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sites.google.com for just basic info and files, but more advanced ucoz.com is good. You can create html or basic web pages, forums, chats, a comment system, a file cabinet, and organize and theme any way you want, along with pm's and rankings and site view statistics. and $30 a month (cheaper if bought for a year or so) you can remove ALL adds, custom domain, more storage and such. Once you understand it is easy to use. a bit of HTML for more advanced users, and plain text for newer people. a good example is http://communiteam.ucoz.com/, which I built in 45 minutes, but still seeing what else I want to add.
oh, and you can create privates forums and such, and a contact page where they can send the msg straight on the site to your email.
Weebly.com is awesome
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Well here's the deal, I'm looking for anyone who is versed in web design, I require a simple, attractive looking "buy and sell" style website design with a forum section. if you think you could help, please pm me and we can converse through hangouts and see if we can make it happen! My motivation is that I reside in a booming oil community that has no private buy and sell website! the opportunity is here.
thanks for any help!
go to 99 designs, a place where you enter the job task and hundreds of designers send you their ideas of web design. It's a contest, so at the end you choose the design that you like.