Build a career-ready design portfolio while learning modern design tools and workflows at your own pace. This certificate covers graphic design, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, UI/UX design, AI image generation, and AI-assisted app development.
Through hands-on projects, students create portfolio-ready design work, practice user research and prototyping, explore multi-model AI image workflows, and build live web applications using AI coding tools. By the end of the program, students will have a polished design portfolio, a UX case study, and deployed projects they can share with employers or clients.
What You Will Learn
- Apply core design principles, including color, typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, and Gestalt theory
- Create professional graphics, photo composites, logos, icons, illustrations, and brand assets using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Design multi-page layouts, marketing materials, and print-ready documents in Adobe InDesign
- Build responsive UI layouts, components, prototypes, design systems, and UX case studies in Figma
- Use AI image tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E/GPT-Image, and Google Imagen for creative workflows
- Build, test, and deploy live portfolio-ready apps using AI coding tools, databases, authentication, hosting, and custom domains