School of Visual Concepts

Transfer your ideas from your mind’s eye to your sketch pad in this twelve-hour UX Sketching course. Rough sketching is an excellent way for digital designers to better manage their workflow. Specific topics include the link between sketching and the UX process, common sketching techniques, storyboard creation, communication through whiteboard sketches, and interdisciplinary tips.

Create and manage fully accessible apps and websites in this three-hour beginner course. Most people agree digital accessibility is important, yet most people also lack the skills to make such designs a reality. So, this course covers practical design areas, such as how accessibility barriers affect people with disabilities, available accessibility tools, applicable legal and technical standards, like the Americans with Disabilities Act and WCAG Accessibility Guidelines, common issues, and building an inclusive design practice.

Get to know Figma, one of the most practical prototyping tools available, in this beginner-level, four-hour class. This cloud-based platform is easy to use and therefore accessible to almost all front-end developers. Through a combination of live instruction, class discussions, and hands-on learning, participants explore topics like Figma design tools, workflow management tools, collaboration, reviews, plugins, importing data, and exporting files.

This intensive 33-hour class helps users create functional and expressive typography layouts. Through a combination of hands-on learning, live instruction, and class discussions, participants explore topics like letter anatomy, word choice, sentence hierarchy, paragraph tracking, system concepts, and the artistic qualities of typography.

Learn to empower users to take full advantage of all your website’s or app’s features in this fifteen-hour beginner user experience (UX) writing course. Participants learn how to compose copy which efficiently communicates key usage points with most users. Specific topics include selecting a voice, directing users to certain functions and features, helping users recover from error messages, writing with voice command functions in mind, and synthesizing research and other UX areas into your writing.

Pivot your career path with this fifty-week user experience certificate program. Participants master necessary UX skills, build their portfolios, become certified, and make career connections. Foundational courses in this certification program include a user research overview, including research types and harvesting results, designer soft skills, such as collaboration and negotiation, and information architecture, including organizational schemes and documentation methods. Participants then move on to UX writing, interaction design, UX visual design, usability testing, and UX sketching. Instruction concludes with a capstone course, design fundamentals workshop, intensive case study, presentation skills, and a design portfolio lab.

Quickly and effectively identify design flaws with the tools you acquire in this fifteen-hour intermediate class. Participants learn to utilize this safety net and ensure that consumers respond favorably to website and app features. Specific topics include an end-to-end usability study overview, test plan selection, testing methods, results communication, and special testing variations.

Bring your artistic vision to life in this four-hour course. Using Furuta wood type scans, instruction combines vintage technologies, such as printing and letterpressing, with advanced design tools, such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Specific topics include merging letterpress assets into your digital workflow, building a letterpress library, modifying the designs for digitization, and digital masking techniques.

Learn to create powerful brochures, magazines, catalogues, and other printed materials in this fifteen-hour Adobe InDesign overview. Participants also use their newfound skills on digital canvasses, largely by importing copy and art from other sources. Specific topics include document setup, image and graph preparation, typography, pagination, numbering, layout design, and exporting.

Take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level in this fifteen-hour intermediate course. Add motion effects to images, graphics, and copy to create eye-catching documents which add value to the reader. Through a combination of live instruction, hands-on learning, and class discussions, participants cover areas like keyframing, compositing, masking, mattes, kinetic typography, and GIF animation.