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UI Designers - I need your attention!

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:54 pm
by rahjars
Hey Guys,

I am Raheel - new to this forum.
I am currently a web graphic designer (Mid Level)

Have alot of interest in designing concepts and I love it. User-interfaces for softwares, web and offline related.

Wanting to know - What's the industry requirement. Any specific programming languages, softwares etc?

Cheers

Re: UI Designers - I need your attention!

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:35 am
by kaszu
If you are web designer you should know CSS, HTML and Javascript even if you don't code, because you need to understand what can, can't be done
Photoshop, since it's most used software I believe

Re: UI Designers - I need your attention!

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:21 pm
by MiniMonty
Just learn as much and as many as you can (more tools = more capability and understanding).

For a designer, as a bare minimum I'd say learn photoshop (or maybe Fireworks), Illustrator and at least a bit of Flash.
Ideally I'd say learn the above and develop a decent understanding of the back end (SQL, php, asp, Javascript).

It's definitely fun to design the front end (it's my job and I love it) but if you have an understanding of the cogs and wheels that make it all happen
it will greatly enhance your understanding and therefore your intuition when you take on 'real' projects.

In direct answer to your question - Industry standard for a front end (UI) designer is Photoshop to a serious level, Flash to a reasonable
capability and (in my own experience) be good with a pencil and a box of marker pens.

You'll need to produce fully worked up UI designs of course - but will also be called upon to very quickly knock out all kinds of web ready graphics,
remake and repurpose pictures / illustrations in all manner of formats and be capable of understanding the user experience of any design you produce.

Last thing - it IS true (no matter what they tell you) that people click green and orange oblong buttons more than any others....

Best wishes
Monty