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Photoshop for Interface Design – Nathan Barry

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Photoshop for Interface Design Information Photoshop for Interface Design is a course designed to teach individuals the skills needed to use Adobe Photoshop for designing interfaces, particularly for web and software applications. The course focuses on practical and relevant techniques used by professionals in the field. Learn how to design interfaces Most Photoshop courses start by teaching you how to remove redeye, crop a photo, or remove unwanted background elements. Skills used by photographers, not interface designers. The valuable interface design skills, such as paths and layer styles, are saved for intermediate and expert level courses. Meaning you have to suffer through learning how to turn a photo black and white before you can learn to improve your software design. Learn skills you’ll use every day Photoshop is such a powerful tool that it is used by everyone from print designers, to photographers, to app developers. Unfortunately that power comes with a comple...

Designing Web Applications – Nathan Barry

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Designing Web Applications Information Learn to design an experience your customers love. Are you scratching your head wondering why people sign up for your application, but never come back? It's not that you set out to create a poorly designed product, but lots of mistakes—big or small—along the way left you with an interface that does its job, but is painful to use. So what now? Hire a designer to fix it for you? I think you can learn to fix it yourself. Undo those mistakes one at a time to create an experience that your customers won't notice. Wait… what? Yes, I said an experience they won't notice. Frustration and confusion get noticed. Completing a task quickly and easily doesn't. Great experiences feel effortless. Designs are clear, buttons are easy to find. The process will go so smoothly that the customers won't think anything of it. That's good. That means your customers are using your application to get work done without feeling confu...

Photoshop for Web Design – Nathan Barry

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Photoshop for Web Design Information Learn how to design websites & apps Most Photoshop courses start by teaching you how to remove redeye, crop a photo, or remove unwanted background elements. Skills used by photographers, not web designers. The valuable interface design skills, such as paths and layer styles, are saved for intermediate and expert level courses. Meaning you have to suffer through learning how to turn a photo black and white before you can learn to improve your software design. Learn skills you’ll use every day Photoshop is such a powerful tool that it is used by everyone from print designers, to photographers, to app developers. Unfortunately that power comes with a complex feature set that is time consuming to learn. That’s why it’s important to learn the tools in Photoshop that are actually used for designing websites and software—skipping past the parts that may be useful someday, but won’t get that app designed in time for your product launch. ...