Improve Your UI Skills with this Figma Exercise | Real-Time Design With Me

A lot of people ask me how to get better at UI design, and my answer is always the same: PRACTICE! So in this video I’m going to do an exercise I’d recommend to anyone looking to improve their UI design skills. We'll grab a screen, pop it in Figma, and walk through how we could make it better.

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[Madi_Miso]

Love it! Watching an experienced designer work and talk through their thoughts is super helpful. In particular I appreciate the small comments on sizes of margins and touchable spaces- I often feel like I’m just guessing what those sizes should be around!

[juls]

Great video! Thanks Maddie! Yes, a Figma worksheet would be awesome! 🎉🎉💗💗

[faris]

Hi Maddy! Thanks for the video. This is really helpful for new designers that sometimes feels confused how to practice our design sense. Your simple explanation for each design change really helped me to understand ui design more.

[djashawe]

Hi Maddy, I just subscribed to your channel and liked your video. It was incredibly helpful to watch you design in action while getting insight into why you made the changes the way you did. I would certainly like to see more of those concrete examples. For many beginners, deciding on the size of UI elements can be tricky, so it'd be cool if you can explain what's your go to size for the icons, search bar, navigation, tab bar, input field, font sizes etc. Also, it'd be really helpful to watch you design not from scratch but rather using one of the well known design systems like Material Design or the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), so we can learn how to utilize them for two different devices, iPhone and Android devices. Keep up the good work!

[mukulmehra]

It is Illuminating and edifying and needed a worksheet and principles of Universal Ui design.

[AtheerAl-majrashi]

I am new to UI and this exercise is helpful! thank you so much Maddy <3 I will be checking out more. from your channel, and the Figma worksheet will be much appreciated by me and many others to be sure.

[TheDesignCorner]

This is so fun & amazing to practice our UI skills. I'm surely gonna try this, Thanks so much Maddy for such awesome videos!!

[stephl]

Thank you for this amazing video!! I'm starting to practice my UI design skills more and I feel like my brain goes back and forth from UI to UX mode and it's difficult to isolate the two ways of thinking. I like your idea of re-designing something because it helps your brain just focus on the UI elements!

[rodrigoaquije]

thanks for the great video. maybe an excercise using components and atomic design next time?

[lanaeartz]

This is amazing. I definitely think UI and UX practice videos would be very helpful. Great video

[manonroy]

I'm a graphic designer of 25 years and am now making the jump into UI. I would love a practice sheet. I took my certification last year and need some practice. <3

[viviannereynoso]

This was super helpful and wonderful to watch, I’d love to have some worksheets for practice

[vanessadesign]

Omg yes! Do more, I loved it and will try to do this weekly

[masayorimoto]

I really enjoyed this video and I would love to see more like it.

[airen-fr]

hey, Amazing video! I have a question though. I was redesigning a screenshot of an app too. I'm confused about the icons used in the specific websites. For example, you also used the exact same icons as the screenshot, where do you find the exact same icons as a website. Like the cart icon, camera icon etc. Do you take a screenshot of it and convert it into an SVG? Also, How do you recognise the font in the screenshot?

[apoorvamhalsekar]

Hey Maddy, I love it when you delve into videos like this and a super big yes to more of these videos and worksheet. We can perform the exercise simultaneously.

I was wondering though how did you make a screenshot of a random screen into an already designed and movable elements version ?
( My bad for framing the question badly but how did you convert an image into an interactive type?)

[arafat.uiandux]

Awesome! It was very helpful. Loved it. Thanks for sharing. Please make more like this. And please make the figma work sheet you were talking about. Thanks again ❤❤❤

[SpabRog]

Learned a lot, this great insight. Wish you all the best 😎😎

[TetianaShevchuk-yl]

Thank you very much. This is a super useful video, love it!

[Abcd]

Thanks for the great video, would really appreciate if you could make a similar video on improving UX skills too please :)