I’ll have to write a thread on that.

How to get started on your design-career
1/: https://twitter.com/phaithie_/status/1354758152143720450

Many people have written on this, I’ll recommend that you still read more on it. No information is too much. They come in handy when it’s time. The brain is awesome, it will trash useless ones naturally

My 1st step of design career is definitely
1. Develop interest or
You are talented

2. Find a purpose: why do you want to enter design?
Feel among, make money, be a voice, because a design master?

When you pick any of this options it will point you on where to learn from

Feel among: then you can learn from the communities and cliques. They will help you start - to grow.
It’s basically famzing or making design friends.

Make money: then you will have to buy a course. Free or paid. The ROI is very short

Be a voice: that means u want learn design as a function of a tool/or product of passion

Best is to self teach. Learn frm YouTube. Plenty of it. Learn almost 90% by yourself. Isolation & hardcore
It’s d best way imo

You’ll discover ur own path/style & own ur stand in d industry

Become a design master: is the combination of the last one I mentioned and learning under design system. Like a design team/agency. As intern or in form of a job.

Back to my list.
3. Learn Basics well. Never skip that.
Start Graphic design. That’s what I recommend. Have a snippet of designing a flier, a logo, icons, motion and branding.

Start basic business in design. Learn how to deal with small clients, enter the business of design

Learning graphic design is jst for experience purposes. You’ll learn how to makes sales and how to design for sales, cos u’d spend more time looking for client & you’ll learn self marketing

So that by time you enter the professional world, u know how to design for sales/clients

People skip it because they don’t want to “suffer” or they want to join right in... boom! Earn 150k as rumored as salary earning/freelance fee for single projects. So they go to learn UI/UX with daily UI

They will finish learning it and be stranded. They will be posting links anywhere they hear there is role “opportunity”
Meanwhile, you are earning exponentially already.

Unless of cause you learnt from famzing as I discussed up there then, people will easily recommend you

4. Be hardworking. Very hardworking. Because you have to be better each day, you need to work very hard.

First rule to improve in design is to design every fucking day. Client or no client, you design every fucking day

5. Build a good portfolio. A very beautiful one. Cause that the certificate. That’s the key to recommendation. That’s the key to selling.
That’s the most important.

6. Find a mentor. A good one. Doesnt have to be physical or direct. Some mentors can be virtual. All in all, mentors give you clues.

They tell you stories and dash you content from experiences.

Last and not the least.
Take risk. Do challenges and believe in your dumb ass self.

Don’t pressure yourself. Don’t do everybody is doing. Be Different and stay focus