UI Designer Roadmap

To be good UI designer you don’t have to be well-versed in all the graphic design principals but there are some design fundamentals that are applied a lot in UI design and are an absolute must to master.

Wireframing is understanding and visualizing the high-level structure of the design (app or website) and representing it with the simplest means possible.

Wireframing can be done on paper by simply sketching out the design or you can use any of the amazing tools.

Remember, wireframing is more about ideation and research and less about presentation.

Adobe Experience Design and Sketch are two of the most popular tools in the industry, among many others. Do a little bit of research and tinkering around with some of them and pick the one you like the most.

Once you have a good grasp of the basic design principles and are hands-on with any of your favorite tool you are ready to start your first digital screens.

Here you need to learn how you can divide an interface into different UI component and how you are going to distribute the available content among those components

This is included here for a reason. Remember, everyone is a designer! Everyone has his own way of using digital products and personalizing them to their taste. Hence taking feedback, screening it and incorporating it is a skill no designer can compromise on.

And remember, it is never too early to take feedback.