Quick Steps to Create GUI for Your Website in Adobe Photoshop

An Overview to GUI – Graphics User Interface

GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. Which is basically used to create wireframes and Mock-ups of the website. Adobe Photoshop is one of the best applications to design Graphic User Interface (GUI). GUI is kind of a blueprint of the website, how it will look and work. It allows designers to work and experiment with different ideas and layouts. Before designing and any GUI, one should know the concept and purpose of designing a website. Who will be our target audience and how the website can help grow business or fulfill the purpose of making a website in the best possible way. To clear all such concepts joining best Photoshop course in Delhi is highly recommended.
GUI should be simple and attractive so that user feels comfortable and will be able to use website easily. In GUI one should use Typography which is easily readable. We should be careful with typeface different sizes, fonts and alignment of content.

Steps to Create GUI in Adobe Photoshop

There are four steps to create any GUI:
Mind Maps -> Rough Sketches -> Wireframes -> Visual UI Design or Final Mock-ups.
Let’s take a look at each step one by one.

1. Mind Map

Mind mapping is an easy way to keep our ideas in a systematic way. In mind map, we make a frame of content our design will be consists of, like a number of tabs, information that will be there in the design. Mindmap is kind of diagram which contents revolve around main idea or concept of design.

2. Rough Sketches

GUI sketching is fast. We make quick sketches of ideas on a piece of paper, giving us a rough idea of a layout. Sketching out the basics of user interface design makes the whole process easy. UI sketch makes the wireframe stage easier and more effective. It helps in making wireframe and gives us the idea of how our website will look. Sketches are the quick ideas which come in our mind related to website or concept. This step is important as it helps in making wireframe stage easy.

3. Wireframes

Wireframes are the simple basic structure of website or we can say an idea, how a website will look. We turn our sketches into wireframes but in a more detailed way. The wireframe is made up of greyscale elements. In wireframe, we place UI elements and define the size and hierarchy of the layout. Wireframes are designed placeholders without images and color details. Their goal is to establish what goes where. Wireframe reflects only elements that you need to have on your site.

4. Visual UI Design/ Mock-ups

In visual UI Design, we add visual details to our layout, such as color, images, typography. Visual UI Design is a static visual look of the concept. There are various tools for creating Mock-ups. But many designers prefer to use Adobe Photoshop for Mock-ups or they create straight in HTML &CSS3 format.

GUI is important to get an effective and attractive web layout. If we follow GUI steps for creating a website properly, we can easily and effectively get our design done in less time. It increases productivity and decreases the time duration of the project. Through GUI steps we can easily see where our ideas are heading and can make changes in between. Before the final project, making it hassle-free.

Introduction to Author
The author of this blog is Sughandha who is pursuing Web Premium course from ADMEC Multimedia Institute which is one of the finest web design training institutes in Delhi.