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Design Courses

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.


Popular Design Courses and Certifications


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    University of Colorado Boulder

    FPGA Design for Embedded Systems

    Skills you'll gain: Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, Electronic Systems, Verification And Validation, Embedded Systems, Electronics Engineering, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Electronic Hardware, System Design and Implementation, Program Development, Technical Design, Computer Architecture, Eclipse (Software), Computational Logic, Hardware Architecture, Embedded Software, Integrated Development Environments, Microarchitecture, Programmable Logic Controllers, Development Environment

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    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Duke University

    Open Design

    Skills you'll gain: Design Thinking, Human Centered Design, Collaboration, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives, Creativity, Cultural Diversity, Ethical Standards And Conduct

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    14 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Colorado System

    Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle

    Skills you'll gain: Software Design, Software Development Life Cycle, Application Security, Technical Design, Software Architecture, Software Development Methodologies, Conceptual Design, Requirements Analysis

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    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google

    Google UX Design (PT)

    Skills you'll gain: Adobe XD, User Experience Design, Usability Testing, Figma (Design Software), Responsive Web Design, Information Architecture, Wireframing, User Experience, Prototyping, UI/UX Research, Presentations, Design Reviews, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, User Story, Storyboarding, Ideation, Mockups, Software Documentation, User Research, User Centered Design

    4.9
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    2.6K reviews

    Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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    Coursera

    Brand Identity Design in Canva

    Skills you'll gain: Canva (Software), Brand Strategy, Logo Design, Branding, Style Guides, Brand Awareness, Graphic and Visual Design, Marketing Materials, Typography, Design Elements And Principles, Color Theory, Asset Management

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of California, Davis

    Essential Design Principles for Tableau

    Skills you'll gain: Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Tableau Software, Data Storytelling, Data Presentation, Exploratory Data Analysis, Graphic and Visual Design, Design Elements And Principles, Data Analysis, Color Theory, Data Ethics, User Centered Design, Human Factors

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    EDUCBA

    CSS Mastery: Responsive Design & Web Styling

    Skills you'll gain: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Responsive Web Design, HTML and CSS, LESS, UI Components, Web Design, Bootstrap (Front-End Framework), Web Design and Development, Front-End Web Development, User Interface (UI), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Typography, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Interactive Design, Web Development, User Interface (UI) Design, Animations, Information Architecture, Browser Compatibility, Web Analytics and SEO

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    EDUCBA

    DirectX 11: Design, Implement & Optimize

    Skills you'll gain: Event-Driven Programming, Computer Graphics, Application Development, Software Design, C++ (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Maintainability, Software Architecture, Application Lifecycle Management, System Configuration, Performance Tuning

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    EDUCBA

    Python GUI: Design, Manage & Deliver

    Skills you'll gain: User Interface (UI), UI Components, Software Design, Maintainability, Application Development, Microsoft Windows, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Python Programming, File Management, Data Validation

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Advanced 3D Modeling and Architectural Design

    Skills you'll gain: 3D Modeling, 3D Assets, Architectural Design, Performance Tuning, Computer Graphics, Structural Engineering, Graphical Tools

    Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    EDUCBA

    CSS: Design & Optimize Responsive Web Pages

    Skills you'll gain: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and CSS, Responsive Web Design, Web Design, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Web Development, User Interface (UI), Animations, Browser Compatibility, Typography

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Michigan

    Web Design for Everybody Capstone

    Skills you'll gain: Wireframing, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Responsive Web Design, HTML and CSS, Browser Compatibility, Web Design, Front-End Web Development, User Interface (UI), Verification And Validation, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Application Frameworks, Usability, Code Review, Javascript

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular design courses

  • FPGA Design for Embedded Systems: University of Colorado Boulder
  • Open Design: Duke University
  • Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle: University of Colorado System
  • Google UX Design (PT): Google
  • Brand Identity Design in Canva: Coursera
  • Essential Design Principles for Tableau: University of California, Davis
  • CSS Mastery: Responsive Design & Web Styling: EDUCBA
  • DirectX 11: Design, Implement & Optimize: EDUCBA
  • Python GUI: Design, Manage & Deliver: EDUCBA
  • Advanced 3D Modeling and Architectural Design: Packt

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