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Designing a Splash Page for Your Mobile App

Your splash page's design has a profound effect on your app's users. In this course, you will learn how to design artwork for your app in multiple formats with many helpful tools. Software required: Illustrator CC 2015, Photoshop CC 2015.

Mario Duilio Macari - Pluralsight course - Designing a Splash Page for Your Mobile App
by Mario Duilio Macari

What you'll learn

The design and execution of your splash page can make or break a user's confidence in your app as it loads. In Designing a Splash Page for Your Mobile App, you will learn how to create and set up great splash-page artwork in raster or vector formats, which you can either combine with coding or in Adobe Photoshop. First, you will learn about drawing elements, both electronically with a tablet and conventionally with pencil on paper, as well as vectoring your art work and arranging elements. Next, you'll see how to use the powerful tools in Adobe Animate CC, Illustrator, and Photoshop; then, you'll explore the basics of color theory, typography, and much more. Finally, you'll create an app logo, finishing up with a mock-up and combining all the elements together. At the end of this course, you will have created a great splash page, improved your design skills, and learned how to use some powerful design tools for your future projects. Software required: Illustrator CC 2015, Photoshop CC 2015.

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About the author

Mario Duilio Macari - Pluralsight course - Designing a Splash Page for Your Mobile App
Mario Duilio Macari

Mario Macari is an award winning illustrator, animator and graphic designer that fell in love with writing code. He develops and codes for major corporations and teaches coding classes at a couple of colleges in Southeastern Wisconsin. Mario Macari holds a BFA in Illustration and certificates galore from software companies.

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