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This is the path that I followed.

You can do what you want!

These are the steps that I would recommend.

Conscripts

Phonology

• learn the IPA

• learn phonetics & phonemics

• learn phonotactics

Scripts

• learn a bunch of foreign scripts — greek, cyrillic, hangul, abjad, syllabics (kana), ideographs, etc

• understand the construction of those scripts

• write those scripts by hand

• write another language in those scripts

• customise those scripts to sensibly transcribe another language

Your script

• create a visually-similar script from scratch

• consider how the letters, shapes and sounds relate to each other

• consider ease of writing — imagine that millions of people will have to write it

Typing

• plan how to type the script on a computer

  • ease of typing common key sequences

  • which fingers, which hands

  • balance between logical composition and quickness of typing

  • make it easy for typers to correct mistakes

• the design of your typing method influences the structure of your font design.

Fonts (Typefaces)

• design a font

  • Windows: FontLab (or FontForge, but it's buggy and crashes a lot)

  • MacOS: Glyphs

  • Linux: FontForge but it's buggy and crashes a lot

Keyboard layout

• make a keyboard layout for your computer