Design Classes in Washington, DC

Design Thinking is an approach organizations use to better understand the needs of people in order to create the most innovative and intuitive products. This creative problem-solving approach stresses the importance of empathy, focuses on the experiences of end users, and integrates an iterative process as part of the final product. Great design doesn’t...

Step into the world of visual design with General Assembly. During this workshop, you'll explore the tools and techniques you can use to bring websites, marketing materials, and more to life. The goal of visual design is to communicate a specific message to a targeted audience – because of that designers can influence, inspire, and leave their mark...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and books. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe InDesign in one day. The focus will...

As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This class aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability. This is a field that affects all areas...

This is a part time course. Unit 1: Design Process Intro to UX & Design Thinking  Explain course expectations in terms of pre-work, homework, projects, office hours, Schoology, etc.  Define the elements of User Experience Design.  Develop basic skills in creative problem solving, innovation, and human-centered design through...

Immerse yourself in the amazing world of Adobe Creative Cloud applications that help designers create a variety of brilliant print and digital media. The Adobe Creative Cloud is composed of three industry standard design applications that seamlessly connect with each other. Becoming proficient will set you on a path to success with the design industry’s...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software, used by designers and illustrators who want to create digital graphics, logos, illustrations, and original typography. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe Illustrator in just one day. The focus will be on step-by-step...

In this course, students will learn how to create common experiments, control for covariates in the model, and analyze and improve experiments that have been conducted.  Experiments include full factorial, fractional factorial, split-half designs, response surface and mixtures.   In This Course, Learn About:  Analyzing Variation...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe Photoshop, the professional digital imaging standard, used by photographers and designers who want to perfect their digital images. Photoshop allows you to create powerful images and designs. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop in just three hours. The focus will be...

This is a part time course. Week 1: Photoshop for Web Design Orientation & Photoshop for the Web Part 1  Describe how Photoshop fits into a modern web design workflow.  Use Photoshop web–specific tools to create parts of a simple landing page mockup. Photoshop for the Web Part 2  Use Photoshop web–specific tools to create...

This 3-day Adobe Animate CC course provides more expressive tools, powerful controls for animation, and robust support for playback across a wide variety of platforms. Learn how to use and create vector-based brushes for painterly effects. Gain more advanced control over complex animations with the Camera tool, and learn to focus the action on different...

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC is one of the most powerful tools a digital photographer has in their toolset, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images.  In this course, you will learn how to:  Work efficiently with images shot in raw or JPEG formats Import...

This 3-day course teaches students step-by-step the key techniques for working with InDesign CC (2019 Release). The 15 project-based step-by-step lessons show users the key techniques for working in InDesign. Designers will build a solid foundation of typographic, page layout, and document-construction skills that will enable them to produce a broad...

AutoCAD Advanced training introduces advanced techniques and teaches you to be proficient in your use of AutoCAD. This is done by teaching you how to recognize the best tool for the task, the best way to use that tool, and how to create new tools to accomplish tasks more efficiently. Prerequisites: Completion of AutoCAD Essentials Training or equivalent...

This is a full time course. What You'll Learn We teach core skills that make up the entire user experience design process. From research and ideation to prototyping and testing, our user experience design training will help you solve design problems using proven skills and methods. User Research Understand how users interact with your product through...