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UI Design for Developers

22 sections - 3 hours of video

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In this course we'll learn how to use design systems, set up break points, typography, spacing, navigation, size rules for adapting to the iPad, mobile and web versions, and different techniques that translate well from design to code.

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Taught by Meng To

Purchase includes access to 50+ courses, 320+ premium tutorials, 300+ hours of videos, source files and certificates.

22 topics

All techniques are explained step-by-step, in a beginner-friendly format so that you can easily follow in a cohesive way.

1

UI Design for Developers

Learn just enough visual design to be dangerous as a developer

3:46

2

UI Patterns and Inspiration

Design from scratch using known patterns and create wireframes

13:52

3

Colors and Branding

Create your color palette using monochromatic, analogous and complimentary colors

12:51

4

Gradients and Backgrounds

Design backgrounds from simple shapes and apply gradients from analogous colors

10:10

5

Stroke and Blobs

Customize the stroke and generate new designs with Looper

12:55

6

Illustrations and Mockups

Elevate your presentation with mockups and illustrations

9:37

7

Typography and Accessibility

Basic rules and system for type design for maximum legibility

9:18

8

Text Styles and Buttons

Set consistent font styles and create buttons with auto layout

8:57

9

Grid and Spacing

Learn about layout grid, rulers and auto layout spacing

8:46

10

Navigation and Components

Create reusable UI elements across multiple screens

10:55

11

Visual Hierarchy and Depth

Apply colors, shadows and background blur to give priority and increase clarity

12:12

12

Cards and Content

Design the content using a flexible card UI

12:54

13

Flexible List Layout

Create list rows and columns that are flexible and reusable

12:47

14

Icons and Customizations

Customize complex icons and font icons like SF Symbols

13:46

15

Vectors and Booleans

Create icons from scratch using the shape and drawing tools

15:00

16

Design Transformations

Quickly rearrange existing components into new designs

11:24

17

Forms and Modals

Design a sign up layout with inputs and a button

13:35

18

UI States and Background Blur

Design button states and error messages

15:49

19

Success Modal and Confetti

Design a floating modal with a success message and confetti

10:29

20

Redesign and Iterations

Revisiting backgrounds, content and design system

15:04

21

Organizing your Layers

Organizing your Layers

11:20

22

Pages and Nested Components

Setting components inside components and creating pages

8:45

Learn by doing

What you'll build

Redesign your existing app or start from scratch as you follow along and learn the techniques.

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300+ hours of video

300+ hours of video

Subtitles in English, Chinese

Subtitles in English, Chinese

Source files, ePub

Source files, ePub

UI, icons, illustrations

UI, icons, illustrations

Premium, support chat

Premium, support chat

Source files

Source files

Design templates and source code files are included to help you learn.

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Meet the instructor

We all try to be consistent with our way of teaching step-by-step, providing source files and prioritizing design in our courses.

Meng To

I design, code and write

Meng To is the author of Design+Code. Meng started off his career as a self-taught designer from Montreal and eventually traveled around the world for 2 years as his US VISA was denied. During his travels, he wrote a book which now has 35,000 readers.

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4 hrs

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Damjan Dimovski

Senior iOS Developer at 3PDevelopment

Made using SwiftUI and @MengTo's awesome Design+Code courses on SwiftUI and UI design!

Mike Ekkel

Frontend Engineer at Bynder

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Mike Ekkel

Frontend Engineer at Bynder

What I really like about @MengTo's SwiftUI course is how he introduces you to awesome use cases for so many of the view modifiers. While this scroll animation is straight from the course, you can imagine all the cool things you could do with it!

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Anthony Collurafici

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Simple Ratio is Live! After years of designing apps, I can finally say I built my own. Big thanks to Meng To for getting me started with SwiftUI.

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David Norris

App Developer

Big thanks to you and your DesignCode team. A big help to me. Learning design is just as important as the code that drives it. Built @getNebulaApp, using the SwiftUI courses. Essential for learning iOS and macOS app dev.

Cyril Zakka

iOS Developer

I don’t know if you remember but I bought your first book a little less than 4 years ago. You started me on my path to code and design. Now I do iOS development and have also moved on to AI and deep learning. So thank you for that!

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Designer at Invision

The new React for Designers course by @mengto is my dream course since I started learning front-end dev as a designer! I wish a similar course would have existed back in the days. Everything is in one place for designers, this is just pure gold! ✨

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