Learn from Anywhere— Online Design Courses to Elevate Your Skills
“Once you stop learning, you start dying” — Albert Einstein
Learning indeed is a constant process but often in our busy lives we are bound by place, time, ourselves and other barriers that hinder it.
Folks, don’t worry!
We’ve got for you a perfect solution — the internet!
Millions of resources are published online every month that can teach you any skill that you want to learn & in this case — help you design better. The only thing we urge you: make time! A couple of minutes each day would do it already. Schedule it in your calendar like any other task or appointment.
In this blog post, we’re super excited to share with you platforms that master the art of imparting knowledge & some of our top picks from their design courses that you can try today!
Udemy
Udemy facilitates learning and teaching online. Students can choose from an extensive library of over 55,000 courses taught by expert instructors. While there are plethora of courses available in their design section, here are the 3 most popular & our favourite ones:
Mobile App Design: From Sketches to Interactive Prototypes
You can learn to turn UX Design sketches into an interactive prototype in a quick and fun way using the Marvel app.
Android Material Design Slidenerd Style
This course walks you through the process of building an app using material design.
Logo Design Essentials
Through this course, you’ll get practical knowledge to create a logo that communicates the brand and its values from scratch.
Treehouse
Treehouse or is an online technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in web design, coding, mobile app development and more taught by a team of expert teachers. Some courses that you can learn:
Learn to Code
Learn technologies such as Ruby on Rails to help you build the next world changing product.
Build an App
This is the spot to learn how to build apps. You’ll learn the language, tools, and necessary concepts to get your app out the door.
Highbrow
What makes Highbrow special & different from all the online course providers is —
1. It uses an email subscription format to brings bite-sized courses straight to your inbox every morning.
2. All courses offered are 10 days long & are broken down into 5-minute lessons to make sure you can read them with your coffee.
Below we’ve mentioned some of the design related courses they offer:
The Fundamentals Of User Experience
This course tells you what user experience is and how it affects every decision you and your users will ever make.
Design Workflow With Sketch
By enrolling in this course, you’ll learn how to use Sketch, paired with InVision, to bring efficiency, consistency, and speed to your design workflow.
Relational Database Design
In this course — how to design a relational database the right way, to ensure that your database is efficient, and makes it easy for developers to work with.
Skillshare
Skillshare is another one of our favourite online learning communities. It let’s anyone to discover, take, or even teach a class. These lessons are imparted through videos making the learning process even more interesting! Have a look at our top picks from their design based classes.
Typography That Works: Typographic Composition and Fonts
Through this class, you’ll understand how to recognize, use great typeface and how to create intriguing, seaworthy compositions.
Character Illustration: From Concept to Final Artwork
This class will teach you how to illustrate using shapes and color to define form, rather than inked outlines. You’ll be ready to make some characters on your own by completing it!
Graphic Design Basics: Core Principles for Visual Design
In this course, you’ll go through 5 basic principles of graphic design, perfect for use in all projects using images and type — creative design, marketing materials, and even photography!
Coursera
Coursera is the only platform where every course is taught by top instructors from the world’s best educational institutions. These courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. Have a look at these 3 design courses & all the other ones available on their website:
Information Design
In this course you’ll learn strategies to create user interfaces, including key lessons in typography, information architecture, layout, color, and more.
Responsive Website Development and Design Specialization
This course specialization covers the basics of modern full stack web development, from UX design, to front-end coding, to custom databases.
Running Product Design Sprints
Design sprints allow you to meet client’s desire for quick, specific outcomes while making time to do things right. In this course, you’ll learn how to plan & run situation-appropriate sprints to deliver value sooner.
Your turn!
Have you taken any design classes recently that you truly loved? Or maybe even have a course of your own? Feel free to leave us a comment below and we may add it to our list!
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