Design Classes in Washington, DC

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...

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...

Learn Lightroom in a day. We'll look at the 2 most powerful modules, the Library and the Develop Modules. Learn how to use Lightroom to take charge of your digital workflow. This class is designed to make Lightroom easy to understand and put you in control of all it has to offer. It will cover your workflow from beginning to end: from importing and...

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...

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...

Have an idea for an app or website, but have been frustrated trying to communicate it to others? Enter Sketch. Sketch is a simple, powerful design tool made specifically for those who design for screens. It has taken the UI/UX design world by storm and designers worldwide have already made the switch. Sketch lets you express your product ideas visually,...

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...

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 course teaches key techniques for working in Dreamweaver while editing and creating HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  Learn how to  Create web pages for the modern web Use and customize popular web frameworks to build web pages for a wide variety of desktop computers and mobile devices with a minimum of hand coding Incorporate...

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. Prerequisites: Intro to Statistics with Minitab Minitab Basics Course...

Designed exclusively for photographers, Adobe Lightroom’s Develop Module offers incredible tools for editing our digital images. Join Marie Joabar as she provides in-depth explanations of these tools and shows you various ways to edit your photos whether you shoot Raw or JPEG. Lightroom’s Develop module provides the platform to make each image...

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...

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...

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...