Design Classes in NYC, New York

Gain the vocabulary and tools to tackle diverse design challenges on the job. Kickstart your portfolio and create beautiful, responsive designs for the web. Over half of jobs in tech and IT now require digital design skills — as well as 815,000 open roles in other industries. Boost Your Professional Value With Versatile Skills More than pushing...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe InDesign features for beginner level users. Students will create multi-page documents while learning a variety of text and image layout techniques. TOPICS  Creating & Customizing Documents Page Setup & Layout Working With Master Pages Working With Typography Applying...

Have you ever looked at a video game and wondered how that was created? Have you ever wanted to learn how to create a game but wanted an easy way to learn how to do it? If so, then this class could be for you. This introductory game production class will cover the basics needed for simple video game creation using Epic's Unreal Engine. Instruction...

In this course, students learn to build wireframes, implement best practices for common design patterns and analyze business goals from a user perspective. Skills & Tools: Use industry standard tools such as Sketch and Invision to prototype and wireframe design solutions. Production Standard: Put together a full suite of UX documentation for...

This course will cover creating and choosing fonts, sizes, and colors; incorporating text and illustrations; avoiding common mistakes in text usage and common rules.  The course will look at the history of typography and students will learn about the anatomy behind the fonts. Emphasis will be placed on using the correct font for the correct application,...

The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online...

Film, television, games and other visual productions need compelling character design concept illustrations, models and maquettes to “see” how characters and other elements of a story are going to look before the actual production begins. This intermediate ZBrush class is absolutely essential for artists designing, creating and developing characters...

Java provides an ideal environment in which to grasp the universal concepts of Object Oriented Programming. Use the Java API to create Graphic User Interfaces, handle mouse events & other user input, work with data structures, manage the file system, connect to a database using JDBC, and create dynamic web pages using HTML and JSP.  Prerequisite:...

As voice experiences become more ubiquitous, stay relevant by learning how to design for voice-first interactions. Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are gaining adoption worldwide and their momentum has just started. As a designer, you need to know how to design voice user interfaces. Learn the core concepts for designing a voice experience and create...

As voice experiences become more ubiquitous, stay relevant by learning how to design for voice-first interactions. Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are gaining adoption worldwide and their momentum has just started. As a designer, you need to know how to design voice user interfaces. Learn the core concepts for designing a voice experience and create...

We will discuss best practices and do group exercises that will help make the collaborative design process more efficient. Participants will learn most commonly used Sketch plugins from Github and have access to a full list of all plugins available for use in future projects. We will go through several in-class individual exercises to set up developer-friendly...

The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe Photoshop features for beginner level users. Topics include basic image editing, transformation, retouching, enhancement, and compositing.  TOPICS Understanding File Formats & Resolution Selections Techniques Image Transformations Layer Management Layer Masking &...

This is a full time course. What You'll Learn We teach core skills that make up the entire user experience design process. From research and ideation to prototyping and testing, our user experience design training will help you solve design problems using proven skills and methods. User Research Understand how users interact with your product through...

This is a 10-week, full-time career accelerator course. What You'll Learn We teach core skills that make up the entire user experience design process. From research and ideation to prototyping and testing, our user experience design training will help you solve design problems using proven skills and methods. User Research Understand how users...