For new designers, I always recommend starting with About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design. It’s a doorstopper of a book, but contains more or less ev

For new designers, I always recommend starting with About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design. It’s a doorstopper of a book, but contains more or less everything you need to get started on the UX/interaction side. To polish UI technical skills, one of the best ways is to just get in repetitions. Try copying stuff off Dribbble and figuring out how they got certain effects done. Notice spacing, alignment, color, and how all these combine to create hierarchy and draw attention to the desired parts of the design. Good luck!!