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Mapping Movement to Video Effects & Sound with Kinect 1

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

This class is for video and installation artists, musicians, dancers and others who are interested in creating video or audio effects using the movement of the body. You will learn how to capture data from the kinect and use motion tracking methods to map movement into parameters that can affect video and audio.   Have you ever wanted to modulate the speed of a movie as you move from left to right in front of a video wall? Do you want to mix...

Lean UX Research Techniques

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

There are those that believe that user research must be a complex and scientific process that takes lots of time, money, and resources. However, in the real world, most product managers, designers and engineers don't have the luxury to spend weeks and months on their user research. That's where lean UX research techniques come into play. It's possible to get useful results without the time-consuming expense of traditional user research methods....

Empathy Jam

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

The Empathy Jam is a day-long user research & design hackathon that gets attendees out and talking to New Yorkers, then coming back and designing solutions for them. Our mission is to make NYC feel like a more connected, supported, and caring place, while spreading the goodness of the user-centered design & problem-solving process! This year, we are exploring how we can better support our fellow New Yorkers in the area of personal health...

Introduction to Web Usability

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

This class will teach students how to craft web pages that are clear and easy to navigate. By learning graphic design fundamentals and studying usability guidelines, students will acquire the tools necessary to create a clean, functional site. These are interactive seminars that include hands-on exercises. Session I - [Form Design, Product Pages, and Content Display] Learn the concept of a form and how companies use them to create communities,...

Data Driven UX Design

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

This 2-hour class demystifies the buzz around metrics, analytics, and data. For every digital product, there are strategic level key performance metrics (KPI) that management has to monitor. On the tactical level, product design decisions should be data driven. This class will demonstrate how to make actionable design decisions based on metrics from Google Analytics, A/B testing, eyetracking data, social media and real-time stats. Oftentimes, there...

Fantastic Furniture II

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

Furniture design typically follows an organized and systematic process that begins with initial fact finding and conceptualization then proceeds to sketching, refinement, and then modeling. Through discussions and in-class assignments, this studio course leads each student to develop an original and fantastic furniture prototype. Students are required to have manual sketching and technical drawing or graphic computer skills (Windows operating system)...

Fashion Design Fundamentals Intensive

Esaie Couture Design School @ 38 W 32nd St, New York, NY

This 6-hour Fashion Design Fundamentals intensive class is constructed for emerging designers. It allows students to get an overall understanding of the fundamentals required to begin a career as a fashion designer and understand and use the processes and tools professional designers use to create their collections. And what better way to understand the skills and knowledge needed to become a success than learning from a talented fashion designer?...

The Tastemakers

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

Who are the Tastemakers? The dictionary says they are those deciding and influencing on what is fashionable. In reality, they are much more intriguing, complex, and fascinating. This course explores the proponents of taste, those historical personalities who are remembered, and those responsible for shaping the taste of today. It seeks to visit their homes, define their vision, discover their inspiration, passion, and innovation, and ultimately to...

Better Design with Paper Prototyping and Testing

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

You know what you want when it comes to designing your site, your web app, your anything, but what about your users? User experience is at the heart of building a successful product. In this class, we'll explore the full potential of paper and rapid prototyping and how they can help in explaining and optimizing your design ideas. Get your post-it pads ready, this interactive and hands-on class which will see you building upon your ideas through...

Technical Drawing II: Construction Drawing Fundamentals

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

The main purpose of construction drawings (also called plans, blueprints, or working drawings) is to show what is to be built. When a design professional or tradesman looks at a set of drawings, every line, arrow, squiggle, and symbol has significance. Together they provide a detailed guide to how the project goes together and what it will look like.  This course introduces students to the mechanical hand drafting tools, techniques and principles...

The Story of Modern Design I

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

This two-part course provides an introduction to the major historical styles, evolutions, and movements that came to shape the story of modern design from 1800 to 2000. By examining objects, interiors, designers, makers, methods of production, and ma more.. terial culture, students will develop an understanding in the history of design and its visual vocabulary. The Story of Modern Design I Empire – the style of Napoleon and Monumental Neoclassicism;...

Introduction to Interior Lighting

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

One of the most striking properties about life is that it has color. As the application of electric lighting technology moves from incandescent to LED, interior designers encounter unique challenges in connection with the appearance of color. Through demonstrations in NYSID’s new state of the art lighting educational facility, this program examines color as experienced by the light from LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) and it provides the basics for...

Lighting Layout Fundamentals

New York School of Interior Design @ 170 E 70th St, New York, NY

Full Course Title: Lighting Layout Fundamentals: Guidelines & Recommendations  Many design professionals become frustrated when attempting to prepare a lighting plan even if pertinent information is present in the manufacturer's literature. This seminar provides designers with a comprehensive overview of planning guidelines, graphic delineation, and rules of thumb for creating downlighting, wallwashing, and adjustable accent lighting...

Insider’s Guide: Historic Textiles & Wall Coverings

New York School of Interior Design @ 979 3rd Ave, New York, NY

Always a resource for up-to-the-minute design trends, the Decoration and Design Building, 979 Third Avenue “The D+D” has a less well-known trove of historically documented textiles and wallcoverings. Showrooms like Brunschwig et Fils and Pierre Frey hold thousands of examples of rich antique designs that continue to influence what interior designers use today. Other resources hold mid-century and modernist archives full of designs that remain...

InDesign CS6 - Part 2

New Horizons Computer Learning @ 462 Seventh Ave, New York, NY

In this course, students will learn advanced InDesign techniques to enhance the look and functionality of your documents. This course is intended for students who want to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using advanced features and collaboration tools. Prerequisite(s) or equivalent knowledge Adobe InDesign CS6 - Part 1

HTML 5 Level 2

NYC Career Centers @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Easy StoryVideo Making w/ Android Phone, (Level 1)

TeSage Dream Solution Workshop @ 549 W 123rd St, New York, NY

You'll learn 3 Super Easy steps mobile filming and editing basic tips with your Android smartphone using free apps (WeVideo) Step 1: Learn basic feature about your android phone for filming (10 mins) Step 2: Learn how to edit video on your android phone using WeVideo app. (40 mins) How to add your photos/videos on the app timeline How to trim videos How to add text/title How to add VoiceOver How to add Background music / Audio Effect How...

Illustrator for Fashion Design Sketching: Level 1

383 Design Studio @ 276 5th Ave, New York, NY

Fashion design sketching is the language of a fashion designer. It's how we communicate our ideas to potential customers and, more importantly, to manufacturers. So if you're not clearly illustrating your designs, you're bound to get bad samples, inaccurate pricing, and waste your time and money. Creating an accurate fashion design sketch is a critical part of design development. And Illustrator has become...

Creating a Fashion Tech Pack

383 Design Studio @ 276 5th Ave, New York, NY

A good fashion tech pack is essential to getting great samples and producing well made, well fitting garments. A good fashion tech pack should do 3 things: Show all the details of your design through a fashion design sketch (a fashion technical drawing). Provide a blueprint to make a prototype Enable you to get an accurate cost of your garment Learn how to create a complete and accurate fashion tech pack that will help you...

User Research & Information Architecture Training

Webcredible @ 557 Broadway, New York, NY

Discover how to structure & design your website around your users' needs from leading UX experts. Learn how to organize information and content based on customer behavior. You'll work through all the stages of a comprehensive user-centered design process to become familiar with every step, leading to robust site and page structures. The user research & IA course topics are: What is information architecture A user-centered design process...