Advises or rules for startup UX/UI Designer

Design is a great thing to do whether a hobby or passionate job.If you want to be a UX/UI designer , there are some rules or advises to follow.

First of all look for design inspiration like productionhunt.com , dribbble or behance. It depend what are you looking for. Follow the designer you love his/her design .First try to observe the design and try to copy it but don't paste it , I mean don't publish it as it your work in social media.
There are some graphical component to follow, for example
-Dribbble
-Good UI
-Call to idea
-UI movement

Designing rules and blog you can read  on Good UI.Also you can get inspiration on UI movement.Furthermore on call to idea you can download all the components or look for inspiration .Awwards is the best place for web design inspiration.
Graphical assets are
-color
-image
-icons
-fonts
Tools to follow. You will have to download good tools for your design for example,
-color picker
-coolors
-color hunt
Use one of these life would be much easier for you to choose or pick color.
For your image you need high definition image not weak one.A good image can change the whole design or a bad image can make your design worst.Here are some website you can pick your images
-Flicr
-Pexels
-Unsplash
For Icons you have to chose thse icon website.
-historic
-iconstore.com
Historic is more like balck and white icons available. Iconstore are more like cool one to use.
Fonts are the heart of design . There are three fonts family Serif,San Serif and Slab serif. Use good fonts like futura,gramond,helvectica like those or have a look around .Observe what good designer use it.Use those components and website
-Fontsfaceninja
-myfonts.com
-google fonts

Download fontsface or add to your chrome extension .It is very useful and it works like colorpicker.
Nowadays we use more gradients to our design.Use this website
-uigradients.com
Now that we know all the components and websites for our design , there are some rules to follow.If you can control your texts , you can control your design.For example in web design , your header should be bold and sub header should be light small grey.Do not play fancy with colors. Use more light grey.Design means more space .You should give your design to breath .Keep it simple , clean and minimal .Remember the less is more.
Add filters and shadow. Good design is the one you do not notice.
-the less radius is good
-the less border is good
-the less shadow is good
There are some books you can follow

-A project guide to UI design
-Hooked
-The Design of everything
-Design for life
Also google a lot and watch more tutorial on YouTube .The more you will look for it ,the more you will learn.Also try to follow one thing rather to be everything .I f you want to be logo designer focus just on that or if you want to be Web designer focus on web.I hope you learnt a lot .Follow my work on
Behance
Dribbble
Instagram
Facebook

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