The knowledge of UI design has a wide range of applications and many directions of work. People who learn UI design can not only work in the traditional design industry, but also do online design.
Interface direction: graphic design is not only the design of art. In the work of UI design, graphic design is to understand the software product, dedicated to improving the software user experience of the product shape, such as industrial shape design, decorative design, information multimedia design and so on. Currently most UI workers are engaged in this direction.
Interaction direction: interaction direction is to consider the design of the product from the interface and the user's point of view. Establish the interaction model, interaction specification, design software operation flow, tree structure, software structure and operation specification. In this and well it will have the knowledge of software code.
User direction: study the user is also very important for the design of the product. If there is no specialized testing products, research user experience and feelings of the people, UI design will be biased, can not be widely used, which will bring great risk to the enterprise.
Operation direction: operation requires more basic knowledge, planning, copywriting, creativity, design and other capabilities. Operation type UI designer, get rid of the limitations of the specification, get rid of the need for flattening, graphic design ability, hand-drawn modeling ability as well as the ability to express creativity of the literacy requirements are a little higher.
Product direction: integrated product, design, user data and user experience, almost covering the whole process from demand to realization to development.
The UI design direction summarized above, I believe you have a general understanding of the direction of UI design work after reading. Want to work in the UI design industry, you need to learn the basics first, understand the workflow of UI design. Design is more and more important to design thinking and ideas. If you are a rookie, there is no design thinking, it means that you have seen too little, you need to see more, more imitation, the good ideas and thoughts as the accumulation of work. As for what kind of direction to choose, it is necessary to combine your own interest and ability to comprehensively examine and judge.