I've been learning and practicing UX for the past 7 months. I thought I wanted to get a full-time UX job, but deep down I really just want to do freelance UX. I just started learning webflow, and am designing a website for a solopreneur for free in a exchange for a testimonial. Your video helped validate some of the steps I was taking, so thank you for that!

@rgasta7765

Жыл бұрын

Hi. How is your career going? Are u getting clients?

@Alfaris_._

11 ай бұрын

That's a really smart strategy! Where do you pile up testimonials? Do you use a website ? Or does the client post on his socials ?

@fayyaz5785

9 ай бұрын

Hey Jansley, just a suggestion, you should add your portfolio website in your Links section, preferebably the first link should be your portfolio, so all the potential clients can take a look at your work.

@maskedvillainai

7 ай бұрын

Doing webflow sites isn’t a replacement for ux. It will give you a total of zero experience in UX. You can’t start as a freelance UX designer as that excludes nearly all of the UX design process rooted in collaborating with others, pitching and evangelizing design solutions, user research and iterative cycles. You just made a decision to become a webflow layout assistant.

@maskedvillainai

7 ай бұрын

@@Alfaris_._except that testimonials fueled by a transaction for free work are inherently full of shit. Am I to hire someone who bribes clients to say something good, or should I find someone who’s goal is to generate a successful impact from that free work?

Thank you for sharing a clear path to learning UI and Webflow designing.

I've been a designer over a decade and still found lots of valuable lessons on this video. Thanks for sharing them. Keep it up!

Bro this is a great video and i love how you structure it, i took alot of notes from this. Thank you and keep up the good work!

so much useful information man, definitely deserve more viewers

Great video and valuable content Stephen. I'm in this very position right now, am currently working full-time while quietly building a side hustle as a freelance web designer which I hope to eventually turn into my main source of income. Nice easy breakdown of the steps to take. Thanks for sharing!

Quite valuable things you've covered in this video. Best of luck and keep doing all the good work.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

Great video no fluff and straight to the point

Thank you this video was very helpful! I am a college dropout learning web development and web design on my own and looking to become a full time freelancer within the next 2 years or so.

Man thank you for the enlightenment, been walking down this tunnel for a while, thank you for your insight, definitely got to hone in more. Keep up the awesome videos. 🙌🦍

Thank you.this video helped me alot. That work chair looks solid and comfy.

THIS is the kind of video I was looking for!! Great list, great resources, great guide, great vid.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great job Stephen. Very good and concise video on a real problem. I like your style! Subscribed!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mohamed - have a great week!!

This video here is so good man so much valuable information. I hope in the near future you could make a longer video of this going into even more detail if possible. Liked and subbed!

This is an amazing video. This man just told you how to build freelancing career that works.

Thank you sir sounds simple enough.

Great video Stephen. I'm a fan!

Thank you for putting this together, I actually learnt alot .

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Amazing insights Stephen! keep up these great videos! Just subscribed 😎

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anis - have a great day!!

Appreciate your content and insight mate. Keep the videos coming 🙌 Would love to know more about your workflow and process is when working with clients. Do you go from site maps, to wireframes, then design and finally development or is there another way you like to work. Anyways appreciate it

This is amazing man thank u!

Great video Stephan,please make more videos about freelance,studio and webflow.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Madhur, glad you enjoyed it!!

Really great content. Keep em coming!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Skylar 😁

Thank you, this was really helpful

This is very good content. Tins of value. Thanks.

Awesome video, really helpful! Thanks man! Great website btw!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it João, have a great weekend!!

I am already s full-time programmer / web developer for 15 years . I always wanted to learn webflow and figma . But didn't have time . Your video motivates me to learn web flow 😊😊

@MohanaKumar-xy5xm

5 ай бұрын

Super thala

Thank you Stephen!✌

Crazy I thought the same thing about Figma! I put it off for ever, now that I picked it up, my designs are so much better!

Hello reader, I'm really grateful to Stephen as he created such an outstanding, full of real information and also in such a sequence that any beginner seeks for. Every second of this video is informative and easy to understand and really helpful. I really recommend this video to please go through once if you're a beginner or even if you're working. Thanks a million Stephen for such praiseworthy and informative video. You cleared my doubts and gave so much to act upon.

this was really helpful, thank you!

@stephen_wise

11 ай бұрын

Let me know if you have any other questions, will make an updated version of this video soon

this is really helpful video i learned a lot 👍👍

This is a phenomenal video. Subscribed.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian - I really appreciate it. Have a great weekend!!

Great video, thank you :) +1 suscriber !

Great advice thank you

Would love to hear a breakdown of your personal story and how you decided to become a Webflow developer

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Ohh interesting, I have a video coming this weekend which touches on this a little but I'll be sure to breakdown my story in a little detail in another video :)

You totally nailed it with this one :)

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Antony!!

Wow, this is God-sent. I can't thank you enough 🙌🙌

Keep them coming!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Got a couple more in the pipeline 🎥

Awesome info brother.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

Im starting this journey now! Im starting off with a general web design course that covers figma, ui/ux design, color theory, etc and then I would like to learn web flow. Does this seem like a good path to you? I feel like I should learn the basics before niching to a specific web design platform.

Hey, i love your videos. You make me so much more confident in focusing my path of becoming a freelancer as well. I have a question and i dont really find an answer for this in the web. How do you charge your clients? I mean the hosting / webflow client billing is not available anymore and i dont really know how to set the billing process up. Do you put your clients payment (credit card) information inside the webflow project? And also how to hand over the website. I heard different ways e.g to set up a new webflow Account with the clients email and password so that they have a single account just with one project. Or to puy the workspace plan and let all project sit in your personal account? I am very confused and i would appreciate if you could help me out. Have a nice day :)

Awesome video.. Thank youuuu

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Kene!!

Great video thanks

Thank you man

Great video!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Avelin!!

Hey thank you for sharing the information! It is really useful, a question about you mentioned that you used 6 months to get to full time freelancer, those 6 months you only focused on this or you still have other jobs on going? Right now I have a full time job but I really wanna try to do freelancing myself...but with jobs and family, the time left for practice and absorb knowledge becomes so limited...

I just found your video before stting up my portfolio, I'd like to do more networking with colleagues in the same industry

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear Alejandro - I'd love to checkout your portfolio when it's live!

Дякую Stephen , Ваше відео мені допомогло розібратись з чого почати , заодно і Англійську мову вивчити , будьте здорові !

🙌

thank you sir!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!!

This is amazing bro

@stephen_wise

9 ай бұрын

Appreciate it Otávio, gonna record an updated version - anything you want me to cover?

Great channel.

Hi, when you were making websites for your clients on webflow. What package did you buy for webflow?

Good video!

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Arnau - love your videos!!

Such a cool intro

thank you so much man. i took a course for webflow and figma and now im able to make a full website but the thing that stress me is that i dont know how to code at all and im still wondering if starting without that would be a good idea. im gonna read the books that you mentioned but do you think it would be a good idea? the plugins are what scares me the most.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, definitely a good idea to dig into coding. You don't need to be an expert you just need to know the fundamentals of how things work together. I have a video on learning webflow in 30 mins - in the first few minutes I talk about the box model + code that may be helpful :)

name of the monitor and the monitor mount :)?

Great content! Thanks for shared!

Great video, one question what's your monthly income from webflow builds?

thanks bro

Checking out your studio website, in your previous work, are the illustrations made buy you (your team?) or do you hire an outside person for that?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Heyo 👋🏼 we typically work with freelance illustrators on a per project basis!

which books you will recommend for web designers?

Really liked this video from start to end but I want to ask a question, what should I do if I don't know web design? I am really struggling with making designs for a website.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words! So I don't feel like I am naturally a good designer but I learned by doing 2 things: 1) Surrounding myself with good design (use sites like dribbble, UI Jar and OnePageLove to find inspiration) 2) Practice - take inspiration and recreate those designs. Tweak them to your own style and do this a lot then you'll start to find your own style :)

is figma essential for this or can you do this with webflow only?

Great advice! Sub.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Julius, thanks for the Sub!

Hey I'm a webflow developer and wanted to learn web design will refactoring ui teach me the whole process of designing a website?

Has their been any new programming languages that are in more design for web designing ? Im coming from a backend position.

Should i freelance on upwork, or post my content on social media and add my personal website for clients?

Just finished learning javascript to a decent degree and my css knowledge isn't lacking either Can I become a freelance developer or do I need to learn any other thing

which webflow university course do you think would be good place to start? I am a beginner as far as design but I know a decent amount of html javascript and react and very basic surface level css

@gustafcederborg9744

Жыл бұрын

21 day portfolio course Garcia UX

great

Hi Stephen thanks for the video, What do you think instead for those who only want to do Webflow development, in my opinion by going to that niche you can make more money or it is better to do both, and in the case of development only, how would you find the customers? 🙂

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Nicola, I think specialising in Webflow development is a great idea. In terms of earning more I'm not sure it will make a huge difference as if you do both design + development you can charge more per project but work on fewer projects where as being a specialist developer means you can complete more projects. I have a video coming soon on finding freelance clients but a couple recommendations would be: 1) Become technical - a lot of people can build good webflow sites but few can build great sites. Master the tool and learn Javascript 2) Become friends with other freelance designers - they will refer work your way 3) Get in front of the kind of people hiring webflow developers (typically CMOs & CTOs at companies) Hope this help!

@user-yz4iy4kc6p

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen_wise Thanks for this.

@nicolatoledo

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen_wise thanks for your reply, o thinks that the best way to get in front of the right people is with content, blog, video and social, I don't like upwork and similar

Thanks Wise. Can you please share your website. I'm a new designer and I want to see how I can make my portfolio website better. Thanks

Stephen may we ask you how is your web designing career? I mean are u making a decent salary? Id love to know. Thanks.

What’s your average amount you charge your clients for a Webflow site?

Hey Stephen just wanted to know Can I become a web designer by just learning webflow and not wordpress? If yes then which types of businesses will I need to target?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! So Webflows selling point is that it's great for marketing teams to update copy etc so the typical clients would be startups and small - medium-sized businesses. I actually get a lot of work where companies want to move away from Wordpress and build a new site on Webflow. I'd reccomend learning 1 platform (webflow or wordpress) and going all in on it!

What headphones you're using at 02:42?

@stephen_wise

Жыл бұрын

Jabra Elite 85h would not recommend tbh. Ended up getting airpods pro and they are way better

I'm looking for freelancers who can either design a figma website, convert a figma website into webflow / react , or do both

@depthbyvfx9604

7 ай бұрын

Still looking for designers? That could design a Figma website or convert a Figma website into Webflow ?

Webflow is so easy to use

Thank you Stephen, I’m looking to start my freelancing career building websites for customers. I’d love any advice anyone can give to help me throughout my journey

@stephen_wise

7 ай бұрын

Would love for you to share any questions you have as I will be creating more videos on this soon :)

Insightful Video! Ohh I see it's coming from a person who has SKIN in the GAME.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Darshil! I actually also have that book on the shelf behind me 😂

The kind of skillset that your are discussing, Stephen and especially the level that can be attained in 3 to 6 months.. Is it enough to make 3k per month.. just as an average?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, so to hit 3k consistently the main thing will be to work on your network. When I first started my income would fluctuate, some months I'd earn 5-10 k others 1-2 k. The key to keeping it consistent is having a few clients you work with regularly!

@goharakram339

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen_wise a 5k month sounds great! How long did it take you to hit your first 5k month?

Good

Webflow provides with just 2 projects with it's free plan. So how can you put more than 2 in portfolio?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

To display more than 2 projects you'd need to pay for the webflow account plan that allows more - once you start building a lot of sites for clients this plan is a must because it gives you a lot of benefits!

How much money do you make?

why Webflow? I'm wondering if wordpress would be a better investment, given that most of the web is built on it? If I become a Webflow designer am I not tying myself to the software and hosting package, when if I was with wordpress I could offer hosting anywhere, getting the best price etc. How would you sell Webflow to me? I do not know code at6 the moment.

Do we really need to learn and go hard towards coding? Like can we design and make a good webflow website without coding?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, you definitely don't need to know how to code from scratch to build a good website in Webflow but you do need a fundamental understanding of how code works and how browsers + search engines interpret that code. Webflow doesn't require you to code to build, you just need to know how that code works so you can build websites in the right way :)

@muhammadbilalqureshi4272

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks alot for this much appreciated , i really love your content watch every video please keep making videos and have a really nice day.... I was so worried where to start but you solved 90% of my problem. Thanks once again.

Can you share how the HTML & CSS book has helped you? I understand the concepts and how they work, but I can’t write any code myself. But Webflow is almost NoCode, so I don’t see how it will help me learn Webflow

@stephen_wise

Жыл бұрын

You build in Webflow using HTML & CSS fundamentals so people who understand how to write code are often better at building clean sites. Definitely not needed to begin with but good to have the foundational knowledge

I have over 20 years of freelance website and graphic design experience, have used SquareSpace for several years and I know HTML and CSS... Think my time to learn Webflow would be much less than 6 months?

@stephen_wise

2 ай бұрын

Yes, if you focus hard on it you could become pretty damn good in 1 month I think

@michaelz8235

17 күн бұрын

Thanks! Just saw this message, and I'm already making websites lightning speed! Webflow is phenomenal. Got my portfolio made and 2 portfolio pieces and am going to try to make money next.

Hi sir I just had to watch your video from the beginning to the middle because it's packed with valuable information, I had to also subscribe immediately because I needed this alot, I am a complete newbie to web design and web development, I truly need to learn all this stuff, am truly happy I came across your channel, but any ways I could start as a complete beginner?? Like any video tutorials you can also share? Please reply thank you👍

Nice video Stephen. Where are you from mate?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Shane, I really appreciate it! I'm from the UK (North Yorkshire but living in Manchester)

@literallyshane4306

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen_wise ah! I'm from Preston, used to live in Manchester. Nice to know there are other WebFlow devs. around here :)

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

@@literallyshane4306 Awesome, if you're ever in Manchester send me a DM on Twitter and we can grab a coffee! twitter.com/stephen_wise_

Wait a minute. 6 months from starting to learn until first fulltime client?

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

More focused on 6 months to go from nothing to having a consistent stream of clients that enable you to make a full time living :)

@fatfriend78

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephen_wise Any tips on how to stay focus?

Now the question is, how the hell do I get projects?

ilv u

mmmmm...where would you learn about actual design? Grids, responsiveness, negative space...? What about learning about your users? I truly believe that you can't do all this in 6 months.

@stephen_wise

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Valentina - I agree you can't learn everything in 6 months but you can easily learn enough to provide value to businesses. The learning never stops and there's no better way to learn than apply the knowledge :)

hello thanks for the ifnormation is there is a discord for the channel so new people can start supporting each others their?

Crazy I thought the same thing about Figma! I put it off for ever, now that I picked it up, my designs are so much better!