Design courses can help you learn graphic design principles, user interface design, branding strategies, and visual storytelling techniques. You can build skills in color theory, typography, layout composition, and creating user-centered designs. Many courses introduce tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, and Figma, that support bringing your design concepts to life and collaborating effectively with teams.

University of Maryland, College Park
Skills you'll gain: Product Development, New Product Development, Wireframing, Product Design, User Experience Design, Prototyping, Persona (User Experience), Design Thinking, Experience Design, Conceptual Design, Agile Product Development, Product Testing, Project Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Management, Service Design, Agile Methodology
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Toronto
Skills you'll gain: Human Centered Design, User Research, Design Thinking, Design Research, Prototyping, Qualitative Research, Innovation, User Feedback, Diversity and Inclusion, Empathy, Diversity Awareness, Ideation, Creativity, Product Testing
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Information Architecture, UI/UX Research, Persona (User Experience), Design Research, User Centered Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Surveys, Usability, Usability Testing, Persona Development, Prioritization, Tree Maps
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Color Theory, Graphic Design, Color Matching, Typography, Graphic and Visual Design, User Experience Design, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Design, Digital Design, Creative Design, Design Elements And Principles, Visual Design, Design Software, Web Design and Development, Image Quality
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Software Design, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Application Security, Technical Design, Security Engineering, Software Development Methodologies, Conceptual Design, Waterfall Methodology, Requirements Analysis, Agile Methodology
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Event Management, Blogs, Web Presence, Content Management, Photo Editing, Editing, Writing and Editing, Web Design, Digital Publishing, Web Design and Development, No-Code Development, User Accounts, Brand Management, Drive Engagement, Digital Marketing, Public Relations
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Mockups, User Experience, User Experience Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, User Centered Design, Design, Usability, User Interface (UI) Design, UI/UX Research, Collaborative Software, User Research, Design Elements And Principles, AI Workflows, Artificial Intelligence
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Università Bocconi
Skills you'll gain: Annual Reports, Retail Store Operations, Brand Management, Digital Media Strategy, Case Studies, Global Marketing, Brand Strategy, Financial Statement Analysis, Branding, Communication Strategies, Market Opportunities, Business Modeling, Customer experience strategy (CX), New Business Development, E-Commerce, Market Trend, Product Development
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Scrimba
Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, HTML and CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Design, Web Design and Development, Front-End Web Development, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Web Development, Application Deployment, Cloud Deployment, User Interface (UI), User Interface (UI) Design, Typography, Cloud Hosting, Software Engineering
Intermediate · Specialization · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Cloud Deployment, Software Development Life Cycle, CI/CD, Server Side, Istio, Cloud-Native Computing, Software Architecture, Cloud Computing Architecture, Application Deployment, Restful API, Responsive Web Design, Node.JS, Django (Web Framework), Git (Version Control System), HTML and CSS, Front-End Web Development, Cloud Computing, Data Ethics, Python Programming, Software Development
Build toward a degree
Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Design Thinking, Design, Human Centered Design, Open Mindset, User Experience Design, Workplace inclusivity, Design Elements And Principles, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives, Diversity Awareness, Social Impact, Social Justice, Creativity, Team Collaboration
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Scrimba
Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, User Interface (UI) Design, User Interface (UI), User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Web Design, Digital Design, HTML and CSS, Web Design and Development, Graphic and Visual Design, Design Elements And Principles, Maintainability, Layout Design, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Creative Design, Usability, User Experience Design, Code Reusability, Web Applications, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Color Theory
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months