Basics of UI Design for Engineers

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Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Surprise! Weekend episode :-D Every piece of code you write is either going to be for computer-to-computer interaction, or for human-machine interaction. For the latter, how do you make your interface easy to understand and use? Erik Kennedy, independent UX/UI designer, dives into user interface (UI) design. We cover the best tools for making quick prototypes, common design mistakes, and his journey from software engineer to freelance designer. This episode is a great way to get excited about design and has plenty of resources for first-time designers. Check out the show notes for details! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2019/07/episode-92-basics-of-ui-design-for.html

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0:00.0	Programming Throwdown, Episode 92, Basics of UI Design for Engineers with Eric Kennedy.
0:21.6	Take it away, Patrick.
0:22.6	Hey, everyone.
0:26.9	We're here with another interview episode, and we've got Eric on the call, and we're got it, what I think is going to be a pretty exciting topic, something I don't know so much
0:31.8	about, and it's a really big field design, and even just UI design, it's always been on
0:37.0	my list of, I feel like I've
0:38.8	made a few crappy UIs just to get past something.
0:42.3	Oh, yeah, definitely.
0:43.5	Yeah, I think we've all been there before.
0:44.7	So hopefully we'll get some illuminating tips here today.
0:47.9	And we have our guest, Eric, Eric Kennedy.
0:50.8	Why don't you go ahead and introduce and tell the folks a little bit about yourself? Hey, yeah, thank you. So my name is Eric Kennedy. Why don't you go ahead and introduce and tell the folks a little bit about yourself.
0:55.3	Hey, yeah, thank you.
0:56.6	So my name is Eric Kennedy, and I am a freelance UX and UI designer.
1:01.6	And I also teach UI and soon to be UX online.
1:07.0	But I didn't start there.
1:08.9	Like I actually started from a dev background back in the day.
1:12.5	I really hadn't programmed it all until I got to college.
1:15.5	And then freshman year, very first semester, there was an intro to programming course,
1:20.2	and I tried it, and I loved it so much that I ended up switching my major over to software engineering
1:25.0	and doing some internships as a dev. But basically, I mean, I kind of drifted my way from there. Like, I really liked developing, but the thing I liked about programming was just doing these little side projects where you kind of like thought of an idea. You like cranked it out. You know, you worked until 3 a.m. It was just you. You didn't need anyone else's permission. You didn't need anyone else's approval. You just, you could turn whatever you were thinking of into a reality. And I love that. But then, um, doing a couple developer internships, I was like, man, this is, it's a little more like industrial scale than I thought. And it just wasn't quite the same. So I eventually shifted over to PM.
2:01.8	And then from there, realized that most of the things I liked about being a PM were things
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