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This course is intended for students who want to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using advanced features and collaboration tools.  Students will learn how to prepare documents for multiple formats, manage advanced page layouts, manage styles, build complex paths as well as manage external files and create dynamic documents....

A comprehensive training for novice UX designers to learn user experience fundamentals. Course Outcomes Learn about the typical roles within UX, how to define UX, and potential implications within projects. Become a UX evangelist and learn how to make the business case for user experience within your organization. Learn skills like UX strategy,...

This intensive training teaches you to create print and digital publications with InDesign. Create projects from scratch and learn about placing photos, drawing and manipulating objects threading text frames, paragraph and character styles, and more. Leave this class with solid Adobe InDesign skills to create compelling documents. Course Outline...

Our UX design course helps you follow a user-centered process. Course Outcomes Master the design process for web, application, and product design. Recognize the difference between good and bad UX design. Learn best practices around UX design, UI design, prototyping, wireframes, and information architecture. Get hands-on experience designing...

You will learn the basics of the Photoshop work area and image manipulation. You will work with color, retouch images with filters and other methods, create layered images, and use masks. Lesson 1: Getting started Topic A: Using Adobe Bridge Topic B: Organizing & Customizing the Photoshop Workspace Lesson 2: Basic Images Topic A: Image...

Learn effective user experience research methods for your projects. Course Outcomes Learn how to leverage various user research methods to meet user needs in your product, website, or application. Get hands-on experience with user experience exercises to practice your user research skills. Dive into a step-by-step approach to usability testing,...

You will learn practical application of content based on what you've learned in the previous Illustrator courses. This class also focuses on content management, streamlining work‐flow and real world design techniques. Course Outline Illustrator Overview Creating a Document Drawing Shapes Applying Color: Fill and Stroke Working with Layers...

Develop your skills in user experience, whether it’s learning the basics, growing your UX design skills, or your knowledge of UX research. Learn how to make the business case for User Experience (UX) and evangelize it within your organization. Through key UX principles, case studies, and hands-on exercises you will learn how to set your UX strategy,...

The purpose of this training module and the associated exam and certificate is, respectively, to impart, test, and validate the knowledge on industry practices in service management as documented in the ITIL Service Design publication.  The ITIL Intermediate Qualification: Service Design Certificate is a free-standing qualification, but is also...

This class introduces you to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and is the fastest way for professionals to get up and running on Creative Cloud. Pre-requisites: Solid computer skills, Mac or PC Understanding the Creative Cloud: Understand how the subscription-based service for Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign works. Which programs...

This class will introduce you to the practice of product design, guiding you through an accelerated experience of conceptualizing, designing and developing your own simple household product from start to finish. You will learn how to identify user needs, how to frame your design problem in a creatively fruitful way, how to generate a range of new ideas...

Learn from the top professionals to create high quality logos, icons, infographics and more. Learn to create and format a vast variety of objects, shapes and text. Understand how to apply patterns, gradients and use Adobe Color for cohesive color systems. Add special effects, and combine images. Use your new skills to create powerful imagery that can...

We’ll cover basic and advanced forms, image maps, cascading style sheets, color and background properties, reusing styles, and tips and tricks. Course Outline Unit 1: Design techniques Topic A: Page margins Topic B: IDs Topic C: Classes Topic D: Element width Topic E: Element spacing Unit 2: Table formatting Topic A: Spanning rows and...

This class will cover advanced modification of PDF's, create complex forms, create indexes, manage large number of PDF's, create links, customize PDF output using compression, and more. Course Outline: Lesson 1: High Quality PDF’s PDF File Attributes PDF Settings Image Options Lesson 2: Color Management Color Shifting Color Profiles ...

Learn to write hypertext markup language (HTML) to design or change web pages. Even if you use Expressions Web, FrontPage, or Dreamweaver to design your web site, knowing HTML is necessary. We'll cover adding tags, links, images, style sheets, frames and tables. Table Of Contents: Unit 1: Getting started Topic A: Introduction to the Web Topic...