Laura Elizabeth – Design Fundamentals

 

Preparing your content for a project. There are many design styles that you can choose from. Gathering (useful), inspiration

Laura Elizabeth – Design Fundamentals

As a developer, you’re likely involved in design decisions on a daily basis. Maybe you’re being asked to add a new feature to your company’s web app, or you’ve had an idea for a side project that you want to look half-decent. Design skills are essential for many tasks.

And so design becomes that thing that you can’t seem to get away from. It’s always there: something you wish you could do but don’t know how to start.

I’ve been there. Although I loved good design, I could not replicate it despite spending over five years at university and design college. Each course I took was both insightful and technical. ‘made sense’Yet, when I tried to create something myself, I ran into a brick wall.

Now, almost a decade later, it’s time to give up on self.-I was taught to design and I now feel that I can be called a designer. My learning style was quite different from what I had learned at design school. That’s why I’ve created this course. I’m going to give you the shortcuts I wish I had when learning design and leave you with a solid foundation in everything from colour to typography to imagery on the web.

This course will help you get to a stage where you can not only be confident in your abilities (and trust me, you have plenty of ability to learn design) but it’ll also teach you all the tricks I’ve learned in the last 8+ years of professional design work.
What will I learn?

This course aims to give you a strong design foundation upon which to build your next project. It’s not going to teach you everything under the sun about design but it’ll teach you the most important things you can do to improve your designs today — no matter how “artistic” you are (or, more likely, aren’t!). These are just a few highlights:
EASY PROCESS

My workflow is what I use for almost all projects, from inspiration to colouring and typography
THINK LIKE A DESIGNER

How you can train your eye to spot what’s wrong in a design and, most importantly, fix it
Real Case Studies

It’s Over-The-shoulder case studies showing how I’ve designed different websites from scratch
EASY VISUALS

Image and illustration treatment that anyone can do – even if you can’t draw a wonky line
6 Modules and 30 videos

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You can binge watch all these videos in one go, or come back and reference them at any time throughout whatever project you’re working on.
Plan
Module 1

Get your content ready to go for a design project
Different styles of design and which one should you use
Gathering (useful and inspiring) inspiration

Layout
Module 2

Sketching layouts
Filling out your content
Spacing and alignment (and why they’re the two most important principles!)
How to avoid common layout errors (3 lessons).

Typography
Module 3

Fonts for body text
Choose fonts for headlines
Your type will look good
Typographic details

Colour
Module 4

Choose a base colour
Locating your accent
Using grey effectively
How your colors look ‘off’

Imagery
Module 5

Photography for sourcing
Photo editing for web design
Image editing
Use icons in web design
Illustrations of sourcing
Illustrations
Screenshots

Polish
Module 6

How to fix and identify problem areas
Tips and tricks for responsive design
Consistency in design

Ever wanted to witness the creative process of a designer firsthand?

Sometimes it’s the easiest way of learning is to just watch another person work. You’ll pick up tricks that you never thought to look for before! Within the course, you’ll find a number of case studies where you can see how I created each of the following websites from scratch (including all mistakes and mishaps).
Continuously updated

These case studies will be updated as I accept more projects.
With full commentary

In each video, I’ll be articulating why specific choices were made and highlighting important bits.

“Design is something that I didn’t think could be taught… until I came across your course. You’re very talented as a designer but being able to teach such an abstract skill has blown my mind.”

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If you are:

You want to master the fundamentals of design without spending years in design school (and don’t necessarily want to think of yourself as a designer)
You want your products to be successful.
Clients have asked you to give design polish to their projects.
Learn from the best “over-the-shoulder” Walkthroughs of designers’ designs
When you share a link to your portfolio with someone, don’t feel embarrassed.

If you are not:

You’re not willing to commit to putting into practice what the course teaches (you won’t learn just by watching the videos!)
You have the time to teach yourself design through trial and error (it is possible, but it’ll take longer)
You don’t have the motivation to start learning design just yet
You want to learn abstract design principles about movement, balance, rhythm …
You prefer to stand out and follow trends, rather than designing for usability or conversions.

Sale Design fundamentals
Stop letting your lack of ‘design voodoo’ preventing you from making kicks-Ass products

Access to over 30 in-depth videos
Access to the class for life
Unlimited updates

Cheatsheets and worksheets
6-week accountability
Live critiques on your designs
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This is what a teacher teaches.

Hey! I’m Laura Elizabeth and I’ve been a designer for almost a decade, I’ve worked on projects for HelpSpot, LaraTalent, RightMessage and Double Your Freelancing. You might have seen me at SmashingConf or LTV Conf, Patterns day, and other conferences all over the world.

And now I’m here to help you level up your design skills so you can start creating products that are not only built well, but look pretty darn good!
Most Frequently Asked Questions
“I’m a developer who can’t design for shite. Will this help me?”

This course is aimed at complete beginners to design… but is by no means slow-You may find it too fast or too patronizing. If you’re technically minded and consider yourself creatively challenged this course is for you. We’ll go through a simple step by step process that you can repeat in it’s entirety or pick and choose for any project you work on.
“Is this going to just be a bunch of theory?”

Nope! This course is super-duper actionable. My greatest frustration with learning design was my inability to understand the principles. I always had one question. “How do I actually apply this in my work?”. This course was designed to be easy to implement. After each lesson you’ll have a new skill which you can start using in your projects instantly.
“How long can I access the course for?”

For ever and ever. You’ll have access to all the videos, worksheets along with any future updates we have planned.
“How long does the course take to complete?”

That depends how much effort you put in but typically you’re looking at a minimum of 2 weeks to go through the fundamentals. You’ll likely be coming back to reference any aspects you struggle with.
“What kind of software/tooling do I need?”

This course is tool-independent. The reason being, it doesn’t matter what you design in (Photoshop, Sketch, Chrome) – it’s a case of designing in what makes you more comfortable and allows you to focus on the principles, not the tool. However, we will still cover vector graphics and image treatment which will require some software such as Illustrator or Photoshop. If you don’t want to splash out on Creative Cloud, all the techniques can also be used in free software like Gimp.
“What if I don’t get anything useful out of this?”

If, for whatever reason, you’re not happy with the course and it doesn’t help you improve your designs, I don’t want yo’ money. Simply let me know within 30 days of when the course gets released and I’ll give you a full refund.
“Laura, will you be available if I get stuck?”

Absolutely! You’ll get feedback about your designs throughout the course. Each student will get at least one assessment of their design. You’ll also receive detailed feedback about how to improve. My number one goal is to see you proudly display your design.