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General Assembly provides the necessary tech skills, career advice, and networking opportunities to prepare individuals for careers in coding, data, or UX design. With courses lasting as little as three months and requiring no previous experience, General Assembly has graduated over 40,000 students worldwide since 2011.
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Being Visual
General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY
Being Visual is a fundamental part of Design Thinking and other innovation processes. It enables better communication between team members, boosts presentations and helps explain ideas. This three hour workshop is an introduction to the fundamentels of using visuals for better (and quicker) communication. It will give you an understanding of the value of visuals and some quick methods to use with your team the very next day! Takeaways: ...
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop: Sessions
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
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 days. The focus will be on step-by-step instruction leading students through the most important tools and concepts in Photoshop. Takeaways The Basics Learn Photoshop interface, basics of Photoshop Practice editing documents and using tools like brush and gradient Retouching Part Learn the basics...
Experience Design for Physical Space
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
As digital experiences expand beyond our browsers and into our physical environment, it is pivotal to understand the ways in which context informs interaction, narrative, and technology. This class is ideal for people interested in exploring the intersection of user experience, architecture, and code who would like to be equipped for projects in museum, retail, and service-oriented spaces. Takeaways: How an experience in physical context...
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Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Learn the workflow of leveraging Illustrator pallets, tools, guides and file formats to produce quality art that can be deployed in numerous sizes, types and applications. Takeaways: How to find inspiration, import traceables, organize layers structure and save for legacy use. The tools to make perfect shapes, custom shapes and point adjustments. How to save for web and devices. Bonus: How to use your logo as an alpha channel...
Introduction To XCode: How To Build Your First IOS App
This workshop will cover everything you need to build your first iOS App (except for the brilliant idea). This includes creating your first project, setting up your app’s interface using Storyboards, changing your interface dynamically with simple code, tips on best practices, using images in your project, the basics of debugging, and running your application on the simulator. (If enough time is left, we can even put your app on your device) This...
Introduction to Data Analytics
Regardless of your job function and industry, it is becoming increasingly crucial to be able to make better decisions based on data. Data analytics allows you to understand, draw insights from, and leverage your data more effectively. This 2-hour class is an introductory, conceptual overview of what analytics entails. We'll cover: How different functions/fields make use of data analytics. The stages of analyzing data. What tools are used. Recommended...
Intro to Growth Hacking: Lean User Acquisition
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Are you at a small business owner, startup or just thinking of creating your own company? This workshop is designed for entrepreneurs, owners, startups, developers and marketers from all experience levels who have an interest in growing their business, user base and brand with a lean budget. Growth Hacking is about combining technology, data and marketing all together to generate growth for both business and personal brands. We will talk about...
Know Your Audience: Design & Present A Pitch
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
When making a pitch, you can never be sure what you say will resonate with the person to whom you are pitching. This workshop will educate participants about four basic personality profiles, the types of information that resonates with each, and how to incorporate elements that will speak to any of them at various points in a pitch. Further, participants will learn some basic strategies for reading a person’s profile so that they can adjust their...
Essentials of Startup Law
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Legal mistakes can doom even the best startup concepts and founding teams. In this class we'll save you time, money, and heartache by preparing you to deal with the essential legal issues that every startup faces. Topics covered in this class will include: How to use a lawyer Choosing and forming the right entity Partnership Agreements Hiring employees and independent contractors Website Terms & Conditions for software companies vs. product...
Balancing Yourself: Find Work You Love
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
It is very important to build your inner strength in order to have the courage to balance your life and find work you love. If we exaggerate our problems and obsessively get into our heads, we give "ooh poor me" the right to destroy our lives. This class will help you learn the definition of inner strength, and the behaviors which will enhance your inner strength. You will work on how to rise above fear, by curbing your intensity, in order to go...
Axure Bootcamp
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
There are many prototyping tools for the UX designer to consider. As a UX designer, you should strive to master Axure because of its robust versatility and its increasing demand within the UX domain. Yes, it's complex, because it’s so powerful, but Axure can also be easy to use. Start by learning the basics before stepping into the complexity. Join us as we take a comprehensive and pragmatic approach to simplifying the Axure mystique. This workshop...
Introduction to Gamification & Design
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Gamification is changing the way organizations of all sizes attract, retain, engage and monetize their customers & employees. Bringing together the best concepts from games, loyalty programs and behavioral economics, gamification is the art and science of designing for engagement. From the ground up, it’s a process-oriented discipline that helps cut through the noise, capture consumer attention, and sustain it over the long-term -- and something...
Turn A Profit: Introduction To Conversion Optimisation
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
With SEO and AdWords becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to master, maximising your acquisition efforts is critical to the survival of an online business. Conversion optimisation helps you increase the number of your website visitors and encourages them to take action and become customers. In this hands-on introductory session, you’ll get an overview of the art and science of conversion optimisation. You’ll learn how to increase your...
Art of Awesome Personal Branding Workshop
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
How did people like The Rock, Jay-Z, and Tina Fey become dynamic personalities who constantly innovate, while people like Hulk Hogan and Vanilla Ice stay stuck in the past? The former built incredible personal brands. It's easier to become a Hogan or Vanilla Ice than you think, and in this workshop we show how to build your personal brand by taking charge of your life and career, so that you constantly innovate and stay ahead of the game. Takeaways...
Effective Interviewing Workshop
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
An interview is your opportunity to make a strong first face-to-face impression on the job search. Employers want to know three key things: 1) Can you do the job? 2) Will you do the job? and 3) Will you fit in with the organization? Your job is to provide enough solid information for the interviewer to answer an unequivocal "YES!" to all three of these questions. This workshop will help you learn how to do just that. Students...
Introduction to User Experience Design (UX)
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
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 user experience 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 of business—prepare to dip your toes into an ocean of new concepts and ideas that...
Podcasting Fundamentals:How To Develop Your Own Podcast
Podcasting Fundamentals: How To Develop, Produce, + Launch Your Own Podcast Podcasts are bigger than ever now, from Serial to Radiolab to WTF with Marc Maron. In fact, a recent Pew Research Center study stated that about a third of all Americans have now listened to at least one podcast. Which means there's never been a better time to launch your own podcast. This course will teach you how. Veteran podcaster Jaime Black (Dynasty Podcasts) will...
The Year of Yes: Collaborate, Communicate, and Create
Full Course Name: "The Year of Yes: Collaborate, Communicate, and Create better with Improv" Innovation comes from an intersection of art and commerce. It comes comes creativity, which takes risk, saying yes to new ideas, and collaborating with those around you. Kick off 2019 with a hands-on improv workshop that will take you through a series of fun exercises and discussions designed to hone your skills in creativity, communication and entrepreneurship....
Introduction To Digital Marketing
The digital landscape is moving at a lightning fast pace. Every industry has been affected by the advances in digital—from retail to brands and agencies. This class will cover the fundamentals of digital marketing, and introduce you to the key channels, concepts and metrics. Learn the available marketing platforms and tactics for tracking and optimizing campaigns, grasp online marketing basics, and get your head around the technical jargon to...
Data Science for Beginners
We all know that knowledge is power, and with technology spreading its wings to every aspect of business, we can, for the first time, collect exceptional amounts of data. But what do we do with that data, and how can it help our business? This class aims to demystify data science by giving a practical and simple approach to the core concepts of data analysis. Prepare to dip your toes into an ocean of new concepts and ideas that will inspire you...
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