I started Yes I’m a Designer in 2010
with the primary goal to share my passion of graphic design
using Adobe applications. I discovered early on in my life that I love
teaching people and see the spark in their eyes when they discover something new,
something that is useful for them or something that is just simply cool.
For more than 10 years I have been teaching thousands of people
all around the world and this vast experience
of classroom trainings, seminars, webinars and recorded online courses allows me to create
something special, something different.
Explaining anything for the first time is always hard,
but each time I refine my examples and take away things I feel unnecessary without making
it confusing or hard to follow. I essentially boil down all my videos to their purest form
to give crystal clear explanations for everything, without wasting time or going on tangents.
Another important ingredient for my tutorials is my experience as a designer.
For the past couple of years I had the chance to work
on amazing projects for companies such as Disney
Pixar, Nickelodeon, BBC, Mattel, Accenture and these jobs taught me a great amount on
how to make the most of all the features of Adobe products. Essentially, as a creative
professional it all comes down to doing your job effectively, which means working fast
while paying attention to detail. I realised that anyone, even complete beginners can learn
to use these applications like a professional as long as they are given the right instructions
from the start. I believe that teaching is the best way of learning. One of the reasons
why I know Adobe applications so well is because each time I teach in a classroom, or give
a seminar to a larger group of people I always get a few questions from my students or audience
that make me think and help me to discover new ways of doing things. You could say being
an international instructor and expert is similar to having an accumulated experience
of working together with thousands of people using the same applications and constantly
learning from each other. Since I started recording tutorials and selling my courses
online this reach just got even more extended having students from 185 countries. It's a
two way thing, I teach but I also learn from each question raised. I get overwhelmed by
the amazing feedback I get in e-mails, comments and reviews and I read each and every one
of them. These responses really motivate me and help me to produce more content and set
the bar higher each time. Being an instructor doesn’t mean that I stopped learning.
On the contrary I feel the urge to study new technologies and improve my current skills
even more as I feel responsible for the content that I provide to my students. I spend at
least one day a week learning from books and online materials to keep my knowledge up-to-date
and to find inspiring and fresh techniques from other creatives. I am also a firm believer
of the method that after spending 10 minutes of learning something new, I spend at least
50 minutes applying and using that knowledge. This allows me to turn every new technique
I learn straight into a habit and merge it into my existing workflows. My plan for the
future is to keep expanding the current set of courses on my site. I’m aiming to release
several new courses each year and publish new videos weekly on my YouTube channel.
I started doing live streams on YouTube, which I’m planning to do weekly.
I hope I will be able to keep inspiring and helping people around the world with my work
and I’m looking forward to facing new challenges. I can promise that Yes I’m a Designer will
always follow the latest trends and changes in the tools used by the creative industry
and will help YOU to keep up-to-date with your skills.