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It can be tricky to sort through all the resources available online around design courses. Some are good, while many are bad. In this article, we put together a course list of courses for designers—whether you’re an aspiring graphic designer, web designer, typographer or type designer, or UX/UI designer, there’s a course on this list for you!
Graphic design fundamentals are more than just learning software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Figma. Design is rooted in undeniable fundamentals that every designer needs to know to work successfully.
Learn what you need to know to break into the world of graphic design. Learn the principles of great graphic design, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat basics, visual communication fundamentals, successful layout in graphic design, and how to get a job as a graphic designer
Instructor: Stone River eLearning
Organizer: Udemy
Price: $20
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Learn the creative process and best practices from design professionals who charge $10k+. Every designer needs the ability to deliver a good logo. Reputation aside, your ability to deliver a good logo is a reflection of your understanding of the fundamentals of logo design. It’s what separates you from the amateurs.
Instructor: Chris Do
Organizer: The Futur Academy
Price: $149
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These course teach students how to make typographic designs using Adobe Illustrator and designing fonts from scratch with professional type design tools like Glyphs App or Robofont. In these courses, learn about typographic compositions and designing your very own typefaces!
Clean, smart typography makes you (or your client) look clean and smart, too. Clunky, incompetent typography...well, you know the drill. Good typography is a pleasure to read; bad typography sucks the energy out of your content and leaves it for dead by side of the road.
Instructor: Ellen Lupton
Organizer: Skillshare
Price: Skillshare Membership
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Joining our in-person counterpart for the first time in 2022, Type West Online is a postgraduate certificate program that brings in-depth type design education to anyone in the world.
Conceived from the start for remote learning, Type West Online’s reimagined curriculum was created by our faculty of type designers and historians — all of whom have extensive experience in online education. And unlike other courses which limit student interaction, our class size will be limited to 20 students to insure individualized instruction.
This yearlong program is tailored to the needs of recent graduates, working designers, and anyone seriously interested in diving deep into the world of type. The curriculum has been designed to give students a strong foundation in typeface design, while allowing them the flexibility to explore their own interests within the practice.
Instructor: Multiple
Organizer: Letterform Archive
Price: $2,695 per Trimester
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Everything you need to design your first font! Learn how to design a font from sketching to exporting and typing with your own font in this online course.
You have an idea for a font, but you don't know how to make it. Or, you love type and want to try your hand at designing your own? Whether you're a professional, a student, or someone just looking to dabble in type design, this masterclass is for you!
With more than 50 sequential videos, hours of demonstration, and pro-tips all along the way, this course is for any knowledge level to get into type design, and produce their very first font.
The Type Design Masterclass walks you step-by-step through the type design process, including generating ideas, rough sketching your letters, walking through the Glyphs interface, and drawing every letter of the Roman alphabet step by step.
Instructor: Kaleb Dean
Organizer: Academy at Studio Ostendo
Price: $495
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Learning how to use web development tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more is part of the fundamentals of the web. Students who prefer a technical and analytical approach will appreciate the web development courses, while students who want to focus on the interface design can learn those skills without the nitty gritty of HTML or programming.
HTML and CSS Web Development Masterclass is an Introductory course to Web development where Luis Carlos explains the main concepts of HTML language and relation with CSS, that leads to perfect websites.
HTML is a power language that will help you develop mobile applications, websites, and work with other languages like JavaScript or PHP that allow you to create dynamic pages.
Instructor: Luis Carlos
Organizer: Skillshare
Price: Skillshare Membership
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From the fundamentals to advanced topics — learn how to build sites in Webflow and become the designer you always wanted to be.
The Ultimate web design course includes over 100 videos. It starts with everything you need to know to get started with Webflow and eases into more advanced design concepts. You'll learn the basics of HTML, how CSS classes and subclasses function, how to construct a page design with elements like containers, divs, flexboxes, and grids. And of course, we'll take you through how to use one of our most powerful features — Webflow CMS. By the time you finish this course, you'll be able to build some pretty amazing stuff.
Instructor: The Best Voice Actor in Video
Organizer: Webflow University
Price: Free
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These courses cover topics such as visual design, interaction design, prototyping, wireframing, usability testing, and much more. Learn practical interface design skills as well as how to think like a designer in order to designer better user experiences.
Become a trusted expert that can take on any web design project with this online course for designers. Stop trying to "fake it till you make it", and instead - just learn how to actually make it.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
• Deliver standout websites using a proven process
• Elevate your work by mastering timeless design principles
• Design for results with creative strategy workshops
• Confidently manage projects and set client expectations
• Avoid the overwhelm, and know exactly what to do next
Instructor: Ran Segall
Organizer: Flux Academy
Price: $695
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Design thinking has emerged as a powerful new problem-solving approach. It’s used in public, private, and nonprofit sectors for solving tomorrow’s user problems, fueling growth, and delivering a unique customer experience. Southwest Airlines, United Healthcare, and Audi are among the market leaders who have sustained growth through human-centered design. But any organization can embed this new approach to innovation into its cultures and processes.
This Harvard University Design Thinking workshop gives professionals practical tools for applying design thinking principles within their organizations. Learn how to identify hidden customer needs and improve the customer experience through user research, journey mapping, and rapid prototyping.
Instructors: Prajakta Kulkarni and Jon Campbell
Organizer: Harvard University
Price: $2,895
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In this free mini course, students will learn the AEIOU Method of Design Observation and Research.
Hundreds of papers and books have been written about the importance of design research and how, when, why, and by whom it should be done. Organizations, and not just innovation consultancies, have adopted it, hired researchers to plan, implement and execute it, and consider it part of their product development process. Schools, and not just the method and process-oriented ones (IIT ID, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Toronto) are teaching it, and not just at the graduate level.
Instructor: Kaleb Dean
Organizer: Academy at Studio Ostendo
Price: Free
Learn Type Design from A to Z in this comprehensive, step-by-step course.
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There's more to Variable Fonts than just weights in-between. Learn how variable fonts work and how to push the boundaries of the medium with this mini course!
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A mini course that gives you all the tools you need to feel organized, confident, and prepared going into your portrait and engagement sessions
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Design research has come of age! Design research can inform any type of design project and with these strategies, you'll have a new outlook on approaching design work.
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The fundamentals of photography compositions underpin all of the greatest work. Whether new to photography or a practiced professional, this course will sharpen your knowledge of compositional basics to elevate your work!
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