The top 20 Visual Design courses you need to take

1. Visual Design (Part Time)

Gain the vocabulary and tools to tackle diverse design challenges on the job. Kickstart your portfolio and create beautiful, responsive designs for the web. This course is offered in person and live online, in a remote classroom setting...

2. Visual Elements of User Interface Design

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface. This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX...

3. Design & Visual Foundations for Non-Designers

Welcome to Design & Visual Foundations for Non-Designers! This workshop is designed for learners that dont have a design background but would like to apply simply design and visual principles to their daily content creating process. In this workshop we will go through:...

4. Visual Design for Web Designers, UI Designers & Developers

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Design is more science than art so a lot of newbies or even experienced designers when they don't know the Graphic Design principles and techniques, they end up creating designs that are Dull and sometimes Ugly. Why some designs feels and works better than other? Have you every thought that? Or what is the secret process behind creating Awesome designs. So I am going to reveal all that in my course with a lot of examplesThis Course is focused on Graphic Design and Design process to help you upgrade your Designs and learn how to even start your designsIf you have missed Design Theory in your college and you want to design awesome looking Website Design or Mobile Apps then this course is for youNEW THINGS you will learn in this Course arePurpose of every DesignStealing Design IdeasLearn Design Theory from UI Design perspectiveDon't Depend on Design ToolsMethods of Generating IdeasUsing Line, Shapes, Colors and TypefaceBlock Design TechniqueScale of ImportanceUsing Contrast in DesignProximity in DesignAlignment in Designand a lot of Career and advance Techniques and tips with a lot of ExamplesThis course is for everyone who wants to Get better at design or want to get the hang of itLet's dive in and learn the real essence of Design...

5. Graphic Design Basics: Core Principles for Visual Design

Great graphic design comes from understanding just a few basic principles. Cracking the code to great design is much easier with a solid foundation of core principles. Join designers Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips for an essential 35-minute class as they walk through 5 basic principles of graphic design perfect for use in all projects using images and type — creative design marketing materials and even photography! The lessons include both examples and demonstration giving you a foundation to create inspired functional design. You’ll learn to: Identify and define 5 basic design principles...

6. Visual Design for Web UI Designers & Developers → Getting Better at Design

I have been teaching UI Design from the past 3 years and I have seen a lot of people getting and running after Pretty Interfaces and Pretty Designs rather than looking at the overall picture...

7. Data Visualization: Design Better Charts in PowerPoint

Most PowerPoint charts suck! Your company spends a huge amount of time and resources on research and data analysis but when it comes time to present your results the default charts from PowerPoint are nothing special. Learn how to apply core data visualization design principles to create charts that clearly make your audience go “Ah-Ha!” If you’re just using the default chart templates in PowerPoint you’re making a big mistake. Your charts will look like the same default charts your audience sees in every other presentation and it makes you and data look generic. Those default chart are only meant to be the starting point (you have to start somewhere) but you need to customize your charts to effectively communicate your own insights and key message to your audience in a unique memorable way. This class will focus applying five data visualization design best practices to charts created in Microsoft PowerPoint...

8. Designing Data Visualizations: Getting Started with Processing

Join Nicholas Felton – author of the Feltron Annual Reports one of the lead designers of Facebook’s timeline and co-founder of Daytum – to explore the world with data and design. This 90-minute class walks through the process of investigating a large amount of data using Processing to project onto a map and polishing the visual appearance in Illustrator. It’s a great introduction to Processing and provides a data set for you to get started with right away making this class perfect for anyone interested in design data geometry or minimalism. Follow your curiosity and become fluent in presenting the data surrounding us every day...

9. Visualization Basics: Sketch to Design in Photoshop

This course is geared towards landscape architects & architects who have an interest in developing their ability to show softscapes & hardscapes in a fast and beautiful way. In the lessons Ill take you step-by-step through the process of creating an atmospheric rich & compelling landscape rendering using only photo textures in photoshop. We’ll start with the background and move our way to the front of the drawing using a variety of blending layering and masking techniques to collage in planting paving people and trees...

10. Shopper Marketing, Store Design and Visual Merchandising

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Have you ever wondered how stores influence your shopping behavior?In an age of self-service stores, saturated markets, and ever more demanding customers, the creative and science-driven design of the point of sale has become a crucial success factor for both retailers and service businesses. In this course, you will be introduced to shopper marketing. I will reveal the marketing secrets of how our purchase decisions are influenced by colors, scents, store layouts, and merchandise presentations. You will learn to understand shopping behavior and how to optimize the design of retail stores and service environments to increase customer satisfaction and sales. Some of the questions addressed in the course are: How can store design trigger impulse purchases?How are visual merchandising and theming used to create irresistible shopping experiences?How can stores be designed to make shopping more convenient for senior citizens?What are the best (and the worst) selling zones in a store?Why are men (but not women) seduced by red sales signs?The intended audience of the course are entrepreneurs, marketers, and retailers, but also interested consumers who want to learn how shopping behavior can be influenced. After participating in this course, you won't ever look at stores the same way again. You will automatically analyze every store you enter to discover the psychological techniques used to make shoppers buy...

11. Business & Marketing Infographics: Designing Visual Data in Illustrator

Hello my name is Rachel and I am a freelance designer creating infographics & illustrations for content marketing companies entrepreneurs & small businesses and I love creating infographics & bringing data to life using Adobe Illustrator...

12. Introduction to Data Visualization: From Data to Design

Join information designer Nicholas Felton for a smart comprehensive and inspiring intro to data visualization! Youll learn how to build a data set transform information into graphics and unlock the storytelling power of data. This 90-minute class centers on a fun project called "condensing the news." Inspired by one of Nicholass favorite prompts youll follow your curiosity studying a newspaper sections words or images ...

13. Introduction to Book Cover Design: Making Stories Visual

What do stories look like? This is the question that book designers ask with each and every project and Chip Kidd knows the answer better than anyone. In this 60-minute class legendary book designer Chip Kidd will take you through the fundamentals of book cover design his way. With lessons on the history of book design typography best practices and Chips personal design philosophy youll gain insider knowledge to take your design instincts and skills to the next level. You’ll learn how to: Individualize your projects to match the book you’re working on...

14. Visual design foundation: Make beautiful slides, reports and UI

Do you recognize the feeling that something about your design is just not quite right but you have a vague idea how to fix it? This class will provide some tips and rules to make your designs look more neat and put together...

15. Digital Poster Design: Combining Images & Type for Powerful Visuals

Join 2019 Adobe Creative Resident Temi Coker to embrace a visual art project that will spark your creativity inspire new Photoshop techniques and polish a striking digital poster that celebrates someone you love!...

16. Beginning Web Design for Creatives, Visual Learners, and Everybody Else

Even if youve never written a word of code in your life you can create your own webpages. Like any other skill you start with the very basics and build on them...

17. Identity and Web Design: Create a Visual Language From Scratch

Interested to learn how I approach a professional assignment? In this class y ou will learn a few tricks on how to come up with a logo and a visual language from scratch for my friends at PEI Toys. Furthermore we will dive into how to design a kick-ass website from ideation to final production...

18. Basic Git & Github for designers, visual learners, and everyone else.

Share contribute work and collaborate with others using GitHub and the power of Git! In this class you will get step-by-step instructions on how to install Git on your computer set up your own GitHub account and create your first project. This class was created by a designer for anyone that learns more efficiently by seeing as opposed to just reading. Git and GitHub aren’t just for people that write code. They are tools for collaboration! Even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life you can use these tools to share ideas images and just about any kind of file that you create...

19. Digital Lettering: Designing Typography for Headlines in a Visual Layout

Learn to craft expressive images comprised of typography letterforms and words. In this 90-minute class designer Alex Trochut walks through his creative process of finding inspiration sketching concepts designing your headline and creating a final layout. Lessons include: Finding inspiration in magazines and editorial design...