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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...

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...

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 voice experiences become more ubiquitous, stay relevant by learning how to design for voice-first interactions. Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are gaining adoption worldwide and their momentum has just started. As a designer, you need to know how to design voice user interfaces. Learn the core concepts for designing a voice experience and create...

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...

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...

Design Thinking stresses the importance of cultivating empathy for end users, interpreting and framing problems they experience, creative solution generation, and continuous prototyping and testing. Embedded within Design Thinking is the assumption that we must think “outside ourselves.” Great design doesn’t happen within the four walls of a...

This is a part time course. Created With a Focus on Real-World Relevance Gain fluency with the core UX techniques needed to tap into a fast-growing field. GA’s design advisory board curates the best practices and innovative teaching approaches of our entire expert network to meet evolving employer demands. Their work ensures that students graduate...

Have an idea on how to create or improve a mobile or web app, but been frustrated trying to communicate it to others? Enter Sketch. Unlike the bloated tools it replaces (see: Photoshop, Illustrator), Sketch is a simple, powerful design tool made specifically for those who design for screens. It has captured the UI/UX design world by storm—designers...

Delivering a phenomenal user experience (UX) is all about connecting with your user and deducing exactly what they want and need. In this workshop, we'll look at the User Experience Design process, with a specific focus on developing interview skills to gain user empathy. Through interactive activities, you will leave with the skills needed to conduct...

The goal of visual design is to communicate a specific message to a targeted audience. Through the intentional and aesthetic manipulation of elements, one is able to influence and inspire. Color theory, layout and typography are among the many areas covered in this course, as well as common practices, such as creative briefs and approval processes....