DESIGN RULES: Principles + Practices for Great UI Design

DESIGN RULES: Principles + Practices for Great UI Design

What you’ll learn

• Be able to create useful, usable and visually compelling UI design for any kind of app, site or system.
• Understand how to properly balance form and function
• Understand the critical rules for designing on small screens and mobile devices
• Know how to effectively organize and economize visual information
• Understand + apply the principle of Balance to create visual order
• Understand + apply the principle of Rhythm to establish and reinforce comprehension
• Understand + apply the principle of Harmony to shape disparate UI elements into a unified, consistent experience
• Understand + apply the principle of Dominance to direct user focus and enhance UX
• Understand + apply the principle of Alignment to lead the user’s eye and speed task completion
• Understand + apply the principle of Proximity to signal relationships between screen elements and decrease users’ cognitive effort
• Communicate with color, typography and imagery in the UI
• Understand how color communicates and influences interaction
• Know how to choose the right colors for any UI design
• Know how to apply contrast properly to guide users and call attention to critical UI elements and interactions
• Know how to determine whether or not color and contrast are appropriate
• Understand the fundamentals of typography as a design element
• Know how to choose the right fonts and design appropriately with them
• Understand + apply 7 crucial rules for great typographic design
• Understand + apply 5 rules for choosing the right imagery
• Understand + apply a core set of DOs and DON’Ts when designing with images
• Know how to create and simplify visual cues that direct user focus and interaction
• Understand the 3 kinds of data visualizations used in UI design
• Understand how the context of the data presented determines its visual form
• Understand + apply 6 rules for great data design
• Know how to simplify visual information to clarify meaning and improve UX
• Know how to visually separate content from controls to make interactions easier for users to understand and act on
• Walk away with a set of “18 UI Design Mantras” that you can apply to anything and everything you ever design!