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Ultimate Guide to UI Design

What to study

Desired Outcome

  • A duck in place of the first letter turns UCKING into a cheeky swear, so it reads as a blunt designer's guide, not a dry course.
  • FREE matters to anyone comparing paid UI courses.
  • The labelled app on the phone shows what you'll learn.
How the packaging works
Title

'Ultimate Guide' promises everything in one place, but the title is plain, so it relies on the thumbnail's joke and FREE to stand out from other UI tutorials.

Thumbnail

Handwritten notes with arrows, fonts, hierarchy, colors and spacing, pick out parts of the app like a designer's markup, and the finished hotel app shows the standard being taught.

Remix this

If your audience is used to dry tutorials, a clean visual joke in the thumbnail can signal a blunter, more fun teacher. Pair it with the finished result and a few hand-drawn labels naming what you'll cover.

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The transferable lesson

Let a joke set the tone and the result sell it.

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