Learning design as a founder with zero design experience.
Kostya Bolshukhin
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The biggest thing I designed as Head of Sales was Sales Deck.
When I started working on UI, i felt the lack of knowledge.
I choose practical and precise blockers i have, find quick courses + practice while learning.
3 short courses, that helped the most:
1. Webflow 101. Basics on web and easy to use website platform
https://university.webflow.com/courses/webflow-101
2 Codecademy learn HTML (and css). Helps you understand how devs "see" the design.
https://www.codecademy.com/enrolled/courses/learn-html
3. Figma design basics. Fastest way to start making prototypes instead of excuses.
https://www.figma.com/resource-library/design-basics/
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Marc Chia@marc_spectre
The courses are useful but I think what helped the most was post course where I started taking quicknotes from day to day when using other apps. Simple things such as how they do onboarding tours, menu design, icon interaction (e.g. mouse over to expand) etc.
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I'm already a front-end developer, but I still want to explore the resources you've shared. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, just need it! 🫡
By the way, here is a design tip I wrote for developers to share:
https://x.com/jaredliu_bravo/sta...
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This will help a lot of developers, designers, and even Chief officers to understand the language of design. Thanks!
Launching soon!
Here's my suggestion -
To understand design, start outside of Figma or any design tool.
Learning design as a founder with zero experience is like diving into coding without semicolons - challenging but rewarding once you get the hang of it! Those courses you mentioned are like supercharged power-ups for your design journey. Keep leveling up!