Design Classes in Chicago, IL

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...

Interaction Design (IxD)  is about making the connection between a device, its interface, and the user. Efficient IxD facilitates the actions users want to take with any given system and is an essential part of web design and development. The focus is on the end result of a high or low-fidelity prototype project outcome which takes the interactions,...

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,...

This course examines the fundamentals of two-dimensional design in the digital age. Students will explore principle elements of design including composition, color, and typography through a series of projects that introduce Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as primary graphic design tools. The importance of effective visual communication in both commercial...

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 class you will learn to launch your website quickly with the help of a quick WordPress installation guide; create a quality website with a proper assembly of important subpages; install and work with plugins and widgets; install and create attractive themes for your website; create custom menus to improve the user experience of your website;...

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...

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...

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...

Create, prototype, collaborate and turn your ideas into incredible products with the definitive platform for digital design.

This course provides an introduction to parametric modelling with Grasshopper. Build various parametrically responsive systems and explore generative design with grasshopper. Requirements: Basic familiarity with Rhino Course Topics: Grasshopper components and Interface Managing data Essential concepts Creating parametric assemblages Patterning...

This course delivers a concise introduction to rhino and an overview of fundamental skills for creating and editing geometry. It will be a combination of synchronous (face-to-face) and asynchronous (guided independent work) materials, to equal a total of 6 hours.  Requirements: No prior knowledge required. Bring PC laptop with rhino installed...