Design Classes in Washington, DC

This introduction to typography is recommended for those pursuing a career in art and design fields, and those interested in the history and development of analog and digital type. The course functions as a working lab with multiple projects guaranteed to build confidence and knowledge in typographic usage.  Students learn about typographic...

Gain the vocabulary and tools to tackle diverse design challenges on the job. Kickstart your portfolio and create beautiful, responsive designs for the web. Over half of jobs in tech and IT now require digital design skills — as well as 815,000 open roles in other industries. Boost Your Professional Value With Versatile Skills More than pushing...

Graphic Design Bootcamp (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) Do you want to become a Professional Graphic Designer? Then this course is for you! You will learn how to incorporate workflow standard projects, such as: graphic manipulation, color management, motion effect, and technical drawings for print, brochures, business cards, book covers, magazine...

Overview Plan and design interactive, fillable form fields in PDF documents using LiveCycle Designer. Create a brand new form, or take an existing form design from Word, InDesign or another graphic design program and covert it to a fillable form with menus, date pickers, digital signature fields and more.  Leverage the existing templates...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe InDesign features for beginner level users. Students will create multi-page documents while learning a variety of text and image layout techniques. TOPICS  Creating & Customizing Documents Page Setup & Layout Working With Master Pages Working With Typography Applying...

This course will cover creating and choosing fonts, sizes, and colors; incorporating text and illustrations; avoiding common mistakes in text usage and common rules.  The course will look at the history of typography and students will learn about the anatomy behind the fonts. Emphasis will be placed on using the correct font for the correct application,...

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. InDesign allows you to lay out and design multiple page documents. This workshop is designed to get...

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...

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...

In this course, students learn to build wireframes, implement best practices for common design patterns and analyze business goals from a user perspective. Skills & Tools: Use industry standard tools such as Sketch and Invision to prototype and wireframe design solutions. Production Standard: Put together a full suite of UX documentation for...

Java provides an ideal environment in which to grasp the universal concepts of Object Oriented Programming. Use the Java API to create Graphic User Interfaces, handle mouse events & other user input, work with data structures, manage the file system, connect to a database using JDBC, and create dynamic web pages using HTML and JSP.  Prerequisite:...

We will discuss best practices and do group exercises that will help make the collaborative design process more efficient. Participants will learn most commonly used Sketch plugins from Github and have access to a full list of all plugins available for use in future projects. We will go through several in-class individual exercises to set up developer-friendly...

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...

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...

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...