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Design Primer
In this track, you'll learn the foundations of design that you'll need to further your study in more specific areas like web design and product design. The first courses will teach you the elements and principles of design, and how to think like a designer. These fundamental guidelines are used by nearly every professional designer worldwide and they help bring objectivity to a subjective area. By the end of this track, you'll have the skills you need to speak the language of design and you'll be ready to study more specific topics.
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Learning the Fundamentals of Design
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Intro to Design Thinking
Learn the user-centered methods and mindsets that entire businesses are using to improve their product experiences. Throughout this course, we’ll go over how to find the voice of our user, the importance of that voice, and how to create a better experience for our user.
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Design Foundations
Have you ever wanted to understand and create aesthetic designs for the web? In this Deep Dive we will learn what design is and how to harness its power. Breakdown the components that conjure the perfect aesthetic. Also create and fix a design of your own.
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Typography for Designers
Typography is one of the most important aspects of good design. In this course, you'll learn all you need to know about creating good typography as a UX Designer: how to choose a typeface; what to look for when laying out type, how to create typographic hierarchy, laying out type, and creating responsive typography.
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Adobe Illustrator for Web Design
Using a project-based learning approach to Illustrator’s core features, walk through the process of designing a simple website beginning with making a wireframe, and then using that wireframe as the basis for creating a page mock up for mobile and desktop platforms. Along the way, use the basic drawing and shape tools to create an illustrated graphic logo. And with responsive web design in mind, we’ll utilize the benefits of both scalable vector graphics (SVGs) and CSS export capabilities.
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Prototyping with Figma
In this course, you'll learn how to build interactive and sharable prototypes in Figma, a web-based visual prototyping tool. You'll create a prototype for a "prosumer" mobile photography app, and by the end, you'll have a better understanding of how to create interactive prototypes that can be shared with project stakeholders and team members.
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Digital Media Through Photoshop
Get started with creating your own digital media files. Setting up your documents properly before you start creating will be crucial for your end product. In this course we’ll learn what those considerations are as well as how to choose the right options. We’ll introduce the most prolific creative application Photoshop to set up our files, make some adjustments and come out the other end with a banner ad suitable for use on the the desktop and mobile as well as print. This course is perfect for anyone looking to get started with design or photography.
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Check out other UX Tracks!
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Track Completion
This course includes:
- Learning the Fundamentals of Design 2 min
- Intro to Design Thinking 75 min
- Design Foundations 2 hours
- Typography for Designers 3 hours
- Adobe Illustrator for Web Design 2 hours
- Prototyping with Figma 71 min
- Digital Media Through Photoshop 102 min
- Check out other UX Tracks! 1 min