Mobile app designer from scratch, step by step plan? Where to start and how to continue?

Question

User interface

Good evening! What knowledge is needed to design mobile applications and get the first job in the office. Make it your life's work. Tell me where to start? What videos do you recommend? Books? Websites? Thanks to all who answered! If someone writes a step-by-step plan I will be extremely grateful. What to pay closer attention to, what to study in the first place? 8 months before looking for a job.

Answer 1

Step 1. Read this short but sensible book:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/6Kzs/1YyWLjfPc
(The Art of Elephant Washing)
Step 2. Look for a job and ask for a test task. And then proceed from the assigned tasks. The entire Internet is at your disposal, you will learn.

Answer 2

Well, you can read books that have been cited a thousand times:
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Or you can follow in other footsteps: Open Google Play or AppStore, download banking applications, fitness, some services, storages, file sharing. Start analyzing these applications. Find the use of some patterns, e.g. How to indent, where are the pictures and which icons, the boldness of the text or its highlighting. Where is the hamburger used, and where are the bars, where is the shadow and what is it. Animation (very important topic). How it is implemented, how difficult. Open Dribbble and Be
and look at other people's work. Do the same with websites. Analyze applications -> do something similar -> analyze -> try. Study the guidelines from Google and Apple, read the blogs of companies that develop mobile interfaces and design them. Lebedev Studio, Yandex, Redmedrobot, Rocketbank, Meduza, Habra, E-legion, MobileAp. Get accounts on the last two resources, get familiar designers and share with them, go to meetups.