UI UX Design Workshop

ACM’s UI UX Design Workshop was held over a duration of 2 consecutive days dating 13th-14th August 2021 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The main objective of this hands-on workshop was to help students gain a new skill and guide their existing creativity in a proper direction. Looking at the steady rise and demand in design related opportunities, the workshop was open for all the branches and all engineering colleges, with an aim to help educate a larger crowd about UI UX.

The workshop started off with the host Ms. Pradnya Tendolkar (Treasurer-ACM) giving a brief introduction about the workshop and the flow of it. Followed by that, the HOD of the Computer department and faculty coordinator of ACM, Ms. Sana Shaikh gave her welcome address in which she stressed over how much this workshop will benefit our students and how in today’s world with all the cutting edge technology it is really important to pay attention to the aesthetic look of things along with the technical part of it.

The session began with Mr. Grejo Joby( Chairperson-ACM) introducing the concept of UI , UX and what is the primary difference between them. Further on Mr. Hariharan Iyer (Design Head-ACM), took over the workshop by teaching the functionalities of various basic tools present in Figma an online design creation platform. Later on Mr.Grejo Joby, spoke a little on the lines of what role does color psychology and typography play while creating a UI design. Followed by that, Mr. Hariharan Iyer explained the usefulness of a Moodboard and then demonstrated how one can create moodboards with simple Figma tools and plugins. Several participants were invited to share their mood boards during the session and Mr. Hariharan Iyer gave them detailed feedback on their creation and how they could improve it. At the end of the session for the first day the participants were assigned a task wherein they were told to prepare their moodboard on the theme of sports. Lastly Ms. Pradnya Tendolkar gave the vote of thanks marking the end of the first phase of the workshop.

The Second Day of the workshop began with Mr. Grejo Joby discussing some of the UI UX use cases, in addition to that he also shared a number of resources related to UI UX designing. Following that, Mr. Hariharan Iyer started demonstrating mockup designs revolving around the theme of Olympics. He displayed various techniques and short cuts to create a mockup. Towards the end of the workshop the participants asked various doubts, which were clarified by Mr. Hariharan Iyer and Mr. Grejo Joby. Announcement of the Design Competition and the Deadline were declared and the top 3 winners would get a chance to get featured on the official ACM Instagram handle. Lastly the participants were asked to fill the feedback form which was put up in the google meet chat box as well as circulated on the whatsapp group.

Many of our participants submitted their entries by uploading them on the google drive link. Out of those entries the top 3 mockup designs were declared as the winners and they were featured on the official ACM Instagram and LinkedIn page.

The winners of the UI UX Design Competition were:

1. Deepankar Gupta - BE Comps

2. Priyal Vaz - BE Comps

3. Likla Sinha - FE IT