Replicate designs on dribbble.com until they get comfortable producing clean designs themselves
Read about uxlaws, copywriting, and follow the internet to give an understanding of other designer's process to go from 0 to 1 about designing webs/ apps
Learning to code
Use sites like codecademy to get familiar with basics like HTML / CSS / JS
Start building any of the designs they've designed and make it real.
Learning business / production stuff
1. Follow other makers and learn from their journey
In all the above steps, ChatGPT or other AIs can be used to answer their queries, deep dive into concepts – basically use them as assistants to accelerate their learning from a main source like Youtube / Articles / Books
I don't think I would have agreed with starting out in Figma a few years ago, but I'm using it more and more to explain things now that it has autolayout and variables. I kinda show a little Figma, show a little HTML, a little Figma, a little HTML and it works great.
This is how i'd advise them right now
Learning Design:
Learning to code
Learning business / production stuff
1. Follow other makers and learn from their journey
In all the above steps, ChatGPT or other AIs can be used to answer their queries, deep dive into concepts – basically use them as assistants to accelerate their learning from a main source like Youtube / Articles / Books
I don't think I would have agreed with starting out in Figma a few years ago, but I'm using it more and more to explain things now that it has autolayout and variables. I kinda show a little Figma, show a little HTML, a little Figma, a little HTML and it works great.