đ Welcome to Product Classroom Weekly
Hello, Designer(d)s! đ
Hopefully by now, youâve gotten your first taste of Figma and have introduced yourself in our Slack channel. (Weâre really excited to read everyoneâs bios so fill out your IDâs as much as you can!)
We want to make this learning process as efficient and accessible for everyone here, so weâre sending out a newsletter every week in case you forget to check Slack or are just confused on what weâre doing that week.
Product Classroom Weekly will be a short and succinct weekly roundup of all your events, assignments, and lectures for that week! Weâll also include some fun design inspo for you at the end. đ¤Ť
Thanks for starting this journey with us, we canât wait to learn some design and make some new friends this Fall!
đ¨ Important Announcements đ¨
You should have the following assignments completed by Sunday, September 20:
Joined our Slack and introduced yourself with Figma âID Cardâ. *If you are not in the Slack yet, join here.
Made your personal notion page as we will be documenting ALL work on there so mentors can have easy access in helping you critique. More directions here.
DM THE LINK TO YOUR NOTION PAGE TO CHRISTINE ON SLACK.
All directions for Week 1 can be found here. As always, if youâre lost, ask for help! Weâre all here for you.
đ Events - Mark Your Calendars!
9/19: First Community Social (We have two times since our students are all around the world!)
Social 1Â @11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST
Social 2Â @8:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
9/22: Guest Lecture - Why Do We Interface? by Ehsan Noursalehi, Senior Product Designer @Samsara
Ehsan believes that designers and technologists have a responsibility to shape the future of interfaces into something responsible. He will take a historical look at interfaces to build an understanding of how they allow us to utilize information in such powerful ways that they can fundamentally change what it means to be human.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST Register Here
9/24: Guest Lecture - Hierarchy: The Basic Building Block of Design by Sabrina Majeed, Design Manager @GitHub.
In this lecture we'll cover the importance of hierarchy in user experience and how to determine and establish visual hierarchy within the products you design. There will also be follow up exercises that will allow you to experiment and test out different tools for creating hierarchy on a page.
Sabrina will hold a 30min Q&A session towards the end. Got questions? Send them in here!
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST Register Here
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by Zak Steele-Eklund for Studio VĂR
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Have a wonderful day!