Drawing Practice
Daniel Walter Scott
Lessons
Getting Started with XD
02:21 2What is UI vs UX
06:19 3The UX Brief & Persona
11:22 4Wireframing (Low Fidelity)
01:58 5How Wide for my Website
13:06 6Existing UI Kits
07:49Working with Type
09:09 8Basic Colors & Buttons
14:14 9Free UI Icons
11:45 10Footers & Lorem Ipsum
05:27 11New Pages & Artboards
04:20 12Class Project 01 - Wireframe
11:11 13Prototyping & Interactivity
08:53 14Create a Popup Modal
07:57 15Prototype
02:54 16Groups & Isolation Mode
02:30 17How to Use Components (Previously Components)
17:19 18Production Video - Left Nav
03:52 19Repeat Grid
05:27 20Updating Components & Repeat Grids
08:54 21Prototype Tricks
06:03 22Navigation Tricks & Tips
04:48 23Class Project 03 - Components
04:07 24Mocking Up an App
09:40 25XD App on Your Phone
08:04 26Fixing the Position
01:01 27iPhone & Android Status Icons
03:10 28Production Video - Login
06:45 29Sharing Wireframes
13:32 30Recording Your Interactions
03:13 31Class Project - Wireframe Feedback
01:21 32Mood Boards
07:43 33Class Project - Mood Board
00:59 3412 Column or Grids
04:57 35Working with Colors
09:02 36Tricks for Using Colors
06:34 37Gradients
03:50 38Class Project 06 - Colors
02:14 39Use Web Safe Fonts
18:00 40Character Styles
06:59 41Font & Text Tips Tricks
05:43 42Plugin Lorem Ipsum
05:39 43Paste Properties
13:15 44Class Project 07 - Text & Buttons
02:21 45Draw Custom Icons
04:13 46Strokes & Lines
14:28 47Pen Tool
14:34 48Drawing Practice
07:15 49Production Video with Tips
12:27 50Illustrator in XD
09:34 51Class Project 08 - Custom Icons
01:49 52InDesign in XD
11:38 53Pros & Cons for Images
03:58 54CC Library Connection
11:01 55Adobe Stock
05:20 56Free Images
01:48 57Masking
06:44 58Photoshop in XD
08:41 59Infographic
12:12 60Class Project 09 - Hi-Def Mockup
05:38 61Mobile Phone Mockup
18:08 62Class Project 10 - Mobile Website
01:24 63Hidden Features for Repeat Grid
05:17 64Plugin - Content Generator
04:29 65Plugin - UI Faces
03:15 66Plugin - PhotoSplash
04:31 67Plugin - Copy Cat
03:19 68Advanced Asset Panel
04:37 69Advanced Symbols
07:52 70What are Micro Interactions
07:21 71Button Grow
06:13 72Animated Image Gallery
06:39 73Full Vector Change
08:19 74Class Project 11 - Micro Interactions
05:12 75Time Delay Transitions
04:42 76Popup Menu or Modal
12:16 77Animated Mobile Side Nav
03:26 78Drop Down Menus
03:24 79Drag Transitions
07:19 80Number Ticker Scroll
06:51 81Alexa Voice Commands
09:37 82What is User Testing
16:53 83Unmoderated UX Test
12:07 84Class Project 12 - User Testing
02:23 85Mocking up in Photoshop
09:21 86ProtoPie
02:40 87Add Animation Using After Effects
09:39 88Export Images & Assets
12:56 89Export Code Using Design Specs
10:49 90Class Project 13 - Roar Cycles
10:29 91Conclusion
05:32 92Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Drawing Practice
everyone in this video, we're going to draw this kind of like cool wavy thing, okay with our pen tool skills, if you've already got pento schools, it should be easy if you're new to it, it's probably going to be a little bit tough but good practice, we're also going to draw this kind of like wavy mini note thing, it's going to be for pricing Alright, let's get started. Alright, first thing we'll draw is the big swoosh that we're going to use at the top here so to do it, let's practice drawing the kind of stroke first or the wave, I'm gonna grab my pen tool, I'm going to kind of start over here, click once it's a little hard with the pen tool to kind of like snap to the edge just doesn't so what I do is I kind of start just a little bit off, let's start here, I'm gonna come down a little bit, we're going to cut this into like kind of go up here and down here so I remember I'm just imagining this and I'm going to go like this and drag it across, cool and then up here I'm going to click a...
nd drag it across and then I'm going to kind of come back down again and click it once I've gone through it. Why? Because these dots don't want to stick to the edge that much, okay so what I do is I just kind of click it over here so cooking ones for corners, I'm going to just fill it with white because I want to show you what we're going to do, it's going to click and drag it now. And even if it doesn't snap, just keep it just on the outside here. Here we go. You yeah, its weather doesn't snap anyway, as long as it's just on the outside here when it exports it will be cropped off of the edges here, so it'll look perfect. So even if it just overlaps a little bit, gets cut off by the preview, you can see here, if I click off, you can see it just gets lobbed off and when it exports the same. Alright, so I want to do a couple of things, gonna move it down. I want to add the gradient from this, you might think I'll just use the eyedropper tool and grab this, but it just grabs one of the colors. Okay? So what you can do is I can grab this, that's that's what I made before, or you could use this, it doesn't matter actually. I want this one, either one actually, and you can add it to the swatches so you can see here it's moving between those two gradients, so I'm going to bend that fella, I'm gonna grab this one, click on this and I'm going to raise that up here about there. I'm gonna send it to the back, I'm using my shortcut, it's control shift and your square bracket which is the one next to the P. M. P. C. It's control shift, square bracket, You're not sure I right clicked it. It's that one there. Send it back to center back and center front all the time. It's a shortcut with writing down. Cool. So what I want is is at the back I want this one to be even further back so we're gonna use the shortcut. I'm going to lift up a little bit man. I want to change this around now. I want it the other way difficult on it, click on this color, drag you to the bottom, drag you to the top. There we go. Cool. Another couple of things I want to get rid of the border and I want to add a drop shadow, big lofty one. We're going to put an image underneath here because this is the video. Remember that we had that automatic playing video that's what's going to replace this green box. That's why I'm not too worried about the contrast here and the other blue box. This is going to turn into an image later on in the course. Okay, so this guy here, drop shadow wanted just going down but I want it to be quite blurry. 1020. Nice. Cool. The next one is that money icon? I might as well start drawing it up here. Okay, so I'm gonna grab my, it's gonna be a little bit tougher to draw but it's basically the wave again and I probably actually go out to maybe the market. I did try. That's why I ended up drawing this little pricing icon awhile ago. It's because I went to the market and looked at materials and it's google material and I couldn't find one that I liked. So I just drew one. I don't know if you're a designer like me used to draw everything and now there's just so much good stuff out there that kind of end up using my design talents to pick somebody else's good icon. It's a bit of a cop out but there are some pretty amazing stuff out there. So what I'm gonna do, click once, click once we want to do a little wave we can adjust this afterwards looking okay. Yeah, it's pretty cool that snaps of these anchor points are right above each other. It's going to make it balance kind of nice. So corner, corner, corner, corner curve curve, does it like a ripple of money? Let's try and match. What's that stroke here? Actually I'll grab the border from this one, pulls the color, doesn't pull the um stroke weight at the moment. Okay, so what is that one we want it to be too, I'm gonna go straight wake of two. I can't even select on it straight away with two and I want to try and match, we'll have a look at the different edges. I wanted to be rounded at the corners, it's big, I'm gonna have my doll sign and I'll show you one last thing before we go. I'm gonna go call sign. I'm probably just gonna use the same one as we've been using so far. We're gonna use Roboto will use white and I'm gonna stick it in there because it doesn't look like a dollar bill until we do that. And I'm in europe, we have euros. It's okay. Everyone knows what the dollar sign is euros. Crazy looking icon if you are in a country that doesn't know who doesn't use euros. It's a pretty crazy looking symbol. I'm kind of new here to europe so it's a weird one to draw. Anyway, dollar sign looks kind of good. Remember you've got to be at one as well. Sorry, command one control one on a Pc to kind of get the real sense of it. It's probably a little small. I probably want to do this to it and maybe shrink it down in general. Everyone's like, it was way better before it kind of was I just need to fit this guy in a bit easier. There you go. He's looking fine. So the thing I wanted to show you was I want, I hate, I don't hate it. It's not very good. Um so I want this to get inside because at the moment it's not part of my symbol. So I want to add it to the symbol. Now remember we did this a while ago and it's kind of like a recap, I guess I'm going to select just these two so I'm going to click on that hold shift, grab that, I'm going to cut it. I'm going to go inside the symbol. How do you know you're inside? It kind of gets that light green glow around it. It's a little hard to show on the video you see here on the edges. So off watch this edge here double click I'm inside of it. It's got this kind of like green halo and if I pace while I'm inside there, the difference is it should appear on both that and that one over there and watch this. You've seen this before. Any trick. Okay, so they line up there in, that's my pricing, that's my account and that's the pentacle. I really want to go back and mess with him a little bit. I think it's too wiggly. Just needs to be a little bit more subtle. That is drawing practice and that is getting used to using the pen tool a little more. If you're new to the pen tool, I hope you learned a little bit more about it. If you're already a pen tool master, you might be shaking your head regardless. That is the end of the video. I will see you in the next one
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Ratings and Reviews
Haseebullah Johar
Thank you, Dan Scott, for providing such a beautiful Adobe XD course. I completed the course today and noticed a couple of things that are missing. I want to share them here so that you can upgrade the course, which would be helpful for us. Hover state and toggle state. Dragging pages from 1-2 to 2-3 and then back from 3-2 to 2-1 with dragging is not working. Another thing is that we learned scrolling the website from top to bottom, but scrolling or pushing things from right to left has been completely omitted. These are the things I have noticed, and I would like you to upgrade them so that we can improve our Adobe XD skills.
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