This crash course is based on CareerFoundry's one-week course on UI Design. I've selected points I think may be useful for a beginner. Hope you find this series useful! Day 02 will be up soon.

1. UI Design Crash course:
Day 01
(what I learned from a one-week course)

2. What is user interface (UI) design?
It is a type of design that is concerned with visual tools
that a user needs to interact with the product.

3. What is user interface (UI) design?
It involves the design of that interactivity, or what a UI
element might do after a user's interaction.
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4. What is user interface (UI) design?
UI elements can be categorized into:
❏ Input elements
❏ Navigational elements
❏ Sharing elements
❏ Informational elements

5. What does a ui designer work on?
A UI designer's goal is to design a visual language that is
consistent across a product.
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6. What does a ui designer work on?
This consistency must be seen and felt through the layout,
interactions, and icons on all the screens a user sees.

7. Coming up next:
Day 02
Content based on a CareerFoundry course | Slides created by Siegrid Saldaña | Feb 2017