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Discussion on: How to become a designer?

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Ali Spittel

Hey! I am a dev professionally too, but I do some design stuff as well. Here are my tips for designing. I use Sketch for creating my designs. I also look at other people's stuff on Dribbble a lot. I also did some of this 100 days of design challenge, though I kind of stopped at some point. Also, design is a huge world like dev -- do you want to do visual design, graphic design, UI design, or UX design? UX is a lot less visual and focuses more on user research.

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Sergey Kislyakov

Thanks for the tips and links!

I'm interested in UI/UX.

Could you tell me more about visual and graphic design? What's that?

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Ali Spittel

Yeah! So visual design is kind of a hybrid between graphic and UI design -- so creating visually appealing user interfaces that are easy to use. Graphic design is mostly for print!