Hey, Adrian here.

I wanted to share with you my personal story.

Around six years ago, I didn’t know anything about design, 2.5 years ago I didn’t know anything about mobile design, 8 months ago, I didn’t have an Instagram account, and yet today, I work as a product design lead in London, and have built a community of close to 80,000 followers, released two e-books and personally worked on over 150+ projects to date.

What’s my story? If you’re interested, read below 📖

Let me tell you, it was a long and bumpy road to get here... I didn’t have anyone to look up to or show me the right way. I didn’t know what courses to watch, and what should I focus on.

I started simple, building websites on Shopify. That was late 2016, early 2017 when I built my first couple of stores, that failed miserably.

I kept working at my full-time job and making websites as a side hustle. I consumed knowledge about marketing, social media, and website design in every free minute I had left in a day. I was hooked.

But it wasn’t until 2018 that I discovered Elementor and started creating WordPress websites. My “breakthrough” came with a local client I was running marketing campaigns for. They saw my agency website and asked me if I could redesign their homepage.

They had a big fashion opening coming, and they were super disappointed with their current looks. I charged them $700 and built it in 4 days, working from dawn till dusk. I was amazed at how “easy” that money felt.

I went on to design 6 more websites for them and started to build my real-client portfolio. But no matter what I did I was stuck at that $700-900 price range and couldn’t move past that. It was when I started posting my concept works on Elementor’s Facebook group I got my first international client.

I remember sitting on a call, all stressed out, with a script I have written down, and I followed it to a T 😂 Then came the moment when my client asked me for a price. I knew it was coming and I had been visualizing this conversation in my head all day - I went all in and said $5000. She agreed without trying to haggle with me. I was SHOCKED. I kept my poker face, finished the call, and closed the deal the same day.

It was then that I realized that making money on the internet is in fact possible!

I live in Poland so to that day it felt surreal for me to be able to work with someone located on the other side of the Globe. It wasn’t that hard, after all.

Over the next 18 months I kept posting my works online, completely stopped looking at my local market, and started closing only English-speaking clients. I secured a couple of ongoing deals where I kept offering my white-label services to a few US, and Australia-based agencies.

Everything was going great but I didn’t like the idea of looking for clients every month and having these huge fluctuations in income (if you’re a freelancer, you probably know what I’m talking about :D) where one month I made $10k, and the next one, zero.

That’s when I thought about productizing my services and started offering retainers. The idea seemed genius. I’d offer them between 40-60 hours of my design services each month and charge $2-3k for it.

On paper, I was working 100 hours, but in time, with my skills getting better, and my workflow getting optimized I was able to deliver the same work in half the amount of time needed.

Then, in early 2020, one of my clients needed a design for a tennis app. I didn’t know a single thing about apps back then but without hesitation, I said yes. I was watching youtube and Skillshare for 14 hours a day to get myself up to speed, a purchased two courses on app design, spent countless hours reading about mobile design on different blog sites, and 2 months later, I did it.

My first ever tennis app was ready.

Looking at the app today, I have no clue how it made it to the App Store 😂

After my first app turned out to be semi-successful, one month later, the same client came to me with a proposition to design a fitness app. It was a huge project with over 150 screens and 20 flows. It took me 6 months to design it and I did everything myself, UX included.

I learned a TON during the process. The app design was well-received and so I was super happy.

After that point, I fell in love with UI and UX. I completely replaced Netflix with online courses and the idea of watching a new course felt like I was a 10-year-old kid again, waiting to play his new computer game. It was that exciting!

Over the next 2 years, I designed over 25 different apps and have been learning ever since.

Right now, the mobile design consists of over 50% of my product design work (I still design a LOT of websites) and I love every single minute of it.

This brings us to today. I know that for some of you my story might be relatable. There’s so much conflicting information available online that you don’t really know where to start your journey in UI or UX or mobile design for that matter. The articles, videos, and courses are so spread around that you can’t really make any logical sense of them.

That’s why I wanted to help newcomers, and people actively working in this industry to improve their skills and avoid the same mistakes I did on my way to becoming the designer I am today.

I’ve compiled all my knowledge and years of experience working on over 150+ projects to date into one eBook you can find in this email. It’s called the “UI Professional’s Design Manual” and it consists of 620+ pages of pure design knowledge, no filler pages, and no secrets hidden.

Grab the Design Manual 👈

But that’s not all. Your theoretical knowledge is for no good if you can’t put it into practice. That’s why I’ve also designed and added over 100 screens of a Fintech app you can practice with and described how you can replicate every single one of them yourself.

I’ve also included a number of templates, and my entire design framework so you can get started from the get-go.

So, let me tell you; if you'd like to learn EXACTLY how to go from a mobile design beginner to a pro, and save yourself a couple of months, or even years on learning - get my new eBook 50% off while it’s available on Gumroad :)

Join the 320 designers who got it already

and become a better designer today 🧠

Hope to see you on the other side! 👋

Best,
Adrian

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