This 15min video just taught me more than my 3-year degree

@heshankolitha

4 жыл бұрын

definitely and design school doesn't teach software

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Indesign was and still is one of the weapon of choice to rule them all. Before sketch and figma cool guys used to use it for complex web design systems too.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Really?! I never did that but I did use placed/embedded photoshop files as symbols hehe

@NineOneOneFx

4 жыл бұрын

TOTALLY TRUE Anton! I remember when I was asked to do a complex UI/UX using only InDesign, which I consider a very underused and underrated software for creating this type of projects, including the audio and video. I'm currently developing a planetary interactive ePub for children using this masterful software! This was the result inspired by the main menu on the Chronicles of Riddick Xbox game and and the feel of an Alien aircraft. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoptyJuPXa7aqLQ.html

@4TheCreatives

4 жыл бұрын

Love the LOTR reference and I am 💯 with you. I don’t know what I would do without InDesign honestly.

@mguerra79

3 жыл бұрын

Not as fancy as the honeycomb presentation, but my first portfolio, back in the day, 2009, was made in InDesign. I did a printed version and a digital version, with a small capacity for UI... If you want to check it out... www.dropbox.com/s/lls111aqhvsbiet/Folio_Digital_Final_MarcioGuerra.pdf?dl=0

25 years in the biz here....been using InDesign since v.1 and before that...QuarkXpress and PageMaker. These are the types of shortcuts and tools I am always shocked that young designers arent learning! So glad you are showing this. You can be the most kick ass designer on the planet but if you don't have streamlined processes and procedures like the ones shown here that increase efficiency I fully believe you will not make it very far in this field.

7:37 this is a really cool tip, having an overview of all the different styles makes it so much easier to edit them.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I love Ben's humor so much. It makes learning the technical stuff bearable and worthwhile. Thank you for this Ben Burns! :)

This video made me realise how much I (and many others) underappreciated Indesign. Definitely going to make more use of it for future projects, no pun intended!

We have just started to get to grips with using InDesign and are finding it very intuitive. These tips on style and formatting will come in handy for some of our future projects. Being able to view all of your typography styles on one page is a great way to see what you are working with. Your advice around this will save a lot of time and will help with our design process.

So informative, thank you Ben! Just started using Indesign after intensive Illustrator and Photoshop sessions and now it's starting to all make sense 🙏

Damn! I've used inDesign for years, and I usually do it per page, which is frustrating. You, Sir Ben Burns, have helped me a lot in these master grids and color swatches. I sincerely thank you for that.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Right on! So glad to have helped.

Thank you! I just clearly understood the great differences between Illustrator and Indesign. The last one offers so MANY productivity features!

THIS IS THE EXACT VIDEO I NEEDED TO SEE TODAY 😆 The Futur to the rescue once again! Thanks Ben! 🙌

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

This was amazing Ben! I learned quite a few new tricks here I had no clue about.

As always you and The Futur continue to put out some of the best content available for creatives on youtube, and sell some of the best resources available on the market!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Right on, Travis! Thanks so much for the endorsement!

LONG LIVE InDesign! Masterful software! Thanks for sharing these superb and useful techniques Ben!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

ALL HAIL INDESIGN!

Thank you so much Mr. Burns ! I hope there will be more Indesign tutorials!

I think this is my first time seeing Ben without a cap Great video, my InDesign skills just got a lot better

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Quarantine style

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!! Watching, learning and enjoying from Guatemala!!!!

awesome! Thank you! I need these "systems." Helps so much with workflow and effeciency.

Sweeeeeeeet video! I may just need that style guide kit!!! Thanks for this beauty!

This is a great piece of content, I love stuff that makes life’s easier, thank you!

Love your content! Thank you so much for the amazing quality of your tutorials

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I learned this in my first job doing annual reports. Those paragraph styles are magic, but I loved how this video explained the more in detail and how exactly they work. Definitely picking up the guide.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks so much!

I find this is very inspiring. Thank you very much for sharing this! See you in the next videos!

Indesign is complicated but when you start understanding the basics, it's nothing but a smooth ride after that.

Great tips! Thanks Ben!

InDesign is very powerful. Thanks for the insight Ben!

This video is awesome, specially for those who likes to do everything on Photoshop. There are wonderful tools out there, InDesign is one of them.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And absolutely agree.

Wish I had this tutorial 10 years ago... just amazing!

Thanks so much for this well of goodies. Been enjoying the Style Guide Kit so much!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Right on! thanks Alex

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Love this Video. Super Helpful

love this! I've made three books on indesign, so I'm no stranger to the software. But I still managed to learn some new tips from it

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I saw your tweet as well thank you

This video is AMAZING, it really MADE MY DAY

It's like you guys read my mind. I was looking for this!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good tip! 👌 I have been working with master pages, color palettes and paragraph styles for years. Which is also very interesting to explain styles for the ‘table of nu contents’. Especially for magazines and brochures with an extensive index. Here you can also incorporate the styles. Succes guys!

Love your every single word. Awesome 😘

Adobe InDesign is my favorite CC program. I love what you said about Illustrator and how much more efficient InDesign is! That’s what I’ve been telling other designers 😀It’s funny because I see designers using Photoshop as well for type but then it looks pixelated. Thanks for the tutorial!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

I think it’s just a comfort thing. It’s comfy to use the program you know. But it’s so much more efficient to use the right tool

Thanks man, I'm currently looking to start a project, which needs exactly this!

Amazing job!

I'm one of those people who only used Illustrator for layouts and was afraid of using InDesign, but I've been using InDesign for my post-grad job since we are working on a 100+ page report. Man, I've been missing out! InDesign makes creating layouts very easy once you get the hang of it. To anyone hesitant to try InDesign, it's really not hard to get used to it once you put some time into it. Great video! Very useful tips!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Saaaaame. I was really confused about Indesign for a while but when I figured it out, no way I was going back

this is extremely helpful thank you!

Time saving tips!!!!! Thanks 😊

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Camila!

Thank you for sharing! I love it!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Game changer! You saved a lot of time for us.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Changing the game

This is awesome! I wish I could see more Indesign tips in futur.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

I may add more - any specific questions?

Thank you, that was very informative 👍

Been using InDesign to create client style guides and design systems for over 10 years too. Other designers kept telling me to use other software... then when I showed them a full brand reference manual with exported digital assets in html and css for online use, they begged me to show them how to create one! InDesign is LIFE!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Boom

Bought them 🤝, this is going to be amazing.

Damn, this is the video I never knew I needed. I used to use boxes to keep spacing the same! I dread to think how much time I have wasted. Thanks for making this video!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

hehe yep, same. And thank you!

@sallllooo

4 жыл бұрын

me too

another great video! Thank you ben and the futur

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alfie

Very useful tips, often forget to set up style sheets and just copy and paste the text box from one page to another.

Thank you for the video!

This is a nice kit to have, only thing I changed was resetting the guides as once the margins were changed the guides in your doc shifted.

God bless you for doing this video, man!!

I got into InDesign over the past year now and while it was a bit of learning curve, I can say InDesign is bae.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

100% agree

You're a God! one love. And Thank You! keep them coming

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I love InDesign - glad to see someone talk about it since so many designers hate it.

@PhenMas

4 жыл бұрын

Also great for menus and anything with lots of hierarchy challenges.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

It gets a lot of hate because it's not understood.

A nice thing to learn in InDesign is GREP-styles. It can save you a ton of time and automate a lot of text editing. It's really powerful.

@corgikun2579

4 жыл бұрын

Second that

Thank you for sharing :)

You guys don’t miss!! Got it on pre-order first notice. My only question is this: When creating docs like this, do you start defining constraints (colors, type scale, etc.) right away? Or do you create a skeleton layout (s) with your bases off an art direction, then turn that into the definitive style guide? Thanks!

Amazing Video. Buying this template!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Hi, thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Sam!

Missed you Ben....I hit that "like" button before even watching

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Missed you too

Thank you so much for sharing

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hi, you can use a new feature called "adjust layout" instead of tweaking the elements of each page. The elements stay snapped to the grid. In case doesn't works it gives you at least a starting point. Thanks for the video. I always create my guidelines in inDesign and i was wondering why people don't use it. Thanks for clarifying that i appreciate.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Oooo Awesome!

You are the beast, thank you so much.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hi, Its very nice video and your great help

Ben is really good at teaching tbh

Great video. Love using it in xd and pairing it with zero-height - clients love it

@fzhardacher

2 жыл бұрын

xd?

This video was awesome! I am gonna use more master pages, that's a great tip. InDesign is my number one tool. I draw in Illustrator, edit photos in Photoshop then I put the project together in InDesign. I love it. Unfortunately the praragraph and character style often have bugs but it still a good feature.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

I worried about bugs too, but found that a lot of them were user error hehe

@juditcselle7166

4 жыл бұрын

​@@mrbenburns Yes, I am sure :))) and with the typo style master page easily can be fixed. Genius!

This is very helpful , i really don't know about these features. Here comes mr. Ben burns to the rescue.. Thankyou sir 🙂👍🏻

I have made so many brand guidelines with illustrator with this I'm getting tempted to use Indesign

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

DO IT

I love how he talks like giving advice and not lecturing about how bad we used to do things. I also use master pages to draw shapes and layouts for testing composition and setting up templates

omg why haven't I thought about making a typography master for my own reference? i mean.. a non-designer won't see it unless they dive into the native and even then who is going to dig into the master unless they're that curious or need to? i.. i am speechless. OF COURSE. OF COURSE IT MAKES SENSE. EUREKA. MOAR CAPS. I'm so mad I didn't know some of these tips before.

Thanks for sharing! 7:38 I also do a "cheat sheet" for CSS styles to see how they all look in one page

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, bingo

I remember when InDesign first came out. I was STOKED. It was like combining QuarkXPress with Illustrator. Thanks for the quick vid! Do one on Pagemaker! (Kidding)

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Haha I’m excited to announce our next series: Quark tutorials!

@Heydjcam

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrbenburns quark AND pagemaker jokes!? amazing lol

thank you sm for this video :)

Don't forget about the TOC too, now that everyone is online due to COVID having a linked TOC is a must!

Thank you

Thanks

Well InDesign is a Layout Software, it can actually go even deeper, but I never got past the things he already explained. Too bad our Type teacher was sooo boooring back in the day so most of the things you learn in time comes from experience. Love the things he explained, this is a must know thing in Indesign for long Documents.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks! I never found a reason to go deeper into the InDesign features, but I’m sure there’s more

Wouldn't it be a good idea to ON layout adjustment tab so all the content pages will adjust itself snapping to the margin? In that case you may not need to adjust individual elements in each page.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha thanks a bunch.

For anyone that needs to design publications, pdf presentations, menus for print, and multi-page documents; InDesign is your best friend - It is made for handling huge files, and typesetting extensive documents. If you prefer to make any of those in illustrator, you're genuinely using the programs wrong. Illustrator's not made for multi-page documents and could drain the power of your computer, easily.

Tks Ben! do you have some tricks for a large Product Catalogue? I suppose I shall use this design system there as well? sorry, I'm struggling making the product pages layout, because I have products with more or fewer details :(

I think I will be using this video if I ever have to work with someone fresh out of college. I find that too many people don't understand the importance of masters and styles. Any reason why you have the 6pt baseline shift on 07 - Heading 4?

very nice video thank you , can you show us how to design more than one master page and use them

Another good benefit for Paragraph Style is to make Table of contents

Love your videos. Quick question though...how do you come up with your layouts?

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of scrolling Dribbble, Pinterest, and reading design books. It all goes in the compost heap, and then out grows the layout.

can you share the grid(guide system guidelines) for different book sizes, say A3, A4, A5 and what's the margin, column width and gutter width?

@YahyaRhouna

4 жыл бұрын

The script www.bepxlagency.be/thebookcalculator/script/TheBookCalculator_MarginsCalculator.zip

Yet to explore InDesign. It looks so daunting but since I do a lot of docs for my company now, it's necessary to explore it.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

You won't look back - using the right tool for the job makes things so much easier.

Loved this. I always use indesign for magazines, brochure etc. helps a lot in large documents. I would love to purchase the style guide, do we have a sale or something in near futur?

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Right now, everything is reduced in response to the COVID pandemic - go check it out :)

@DesignWithAd

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrbenburns ok thank you so much.

This was great. I like your communication style as well. Also, now that I have a beard, we look alike. Bonus!

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Beard bros!

"It's a master...applied to the master...that gets applied to the pages. Welcome to the Matrix." LOL

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

Super nerdy, but it works hehe

I use InDesign for the overall guide but I use XD for the web because developers can snag CSS code and download assets into any format and pixel density scale.

@mrbenburns

4 жыл бұрын

100% can’t use anything else for digital

# What is a Design System? > A collection of visual rules, patterns, and graphic elements. ## Most Basic Level of Pattern Layout - Hues - Typography - The way you use the space available # Wisdom in Passing - When working with grids its best to create them it the master pages - The master page will override the content on the page - Save the format for all typefaces in "Paragraph Styles" ## Most Basic Level of Pattern Layout - Hues - Typography - The way you use the space available # How to Change Body Text 1. If the company wants a more classic typeface other the one we used. 2. Pick your font to time new roman and make some adjustments You edit one Block of text 3. Then you use this to overrides the Body Text Paragraph style. Any block with the same style will auto-update. 4. To-do so... Right Click on the paragraph style and click "Redefine Style" 5. Boom-Yah done "...You can edit the style directly... But I like to play with things on page...Because I'll know what it's going to look like." ## Tips - It might look ugly, but put all your text styles on one page so if you need to update, you can just do it all in one place instead of running all over the place to do the #How to Change BodyText trick # Colors! ## Wisdom in passing - Save your entire document as local swatches - ## Setting our new hues 1. We want to edit the swatches directly on the page 2. You can do this by placing your new swatches on your page 3. Write click on the swatch in the swatches side menu 4. Click on to swatch options to bring up that small window 5. You can copy and paste hex code or using the eye doper tool in that small menu to get the new color 6. Everything with the same swatch should update

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what page format is he using? I like the with of it. But I don't know if it is handy to print...

What song is in section 3 (type styles)?