Design Classes in Washington, DC

As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This class aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability. This is a field that affects all areas...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and books. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe InDesign in one day. The focus will...

This is a part time course. Week 1: Photoshop for Web Design Orientation & Photoshop for the Web Part 1  Describe how Photoshop fits into a modern web design workflow.  Use Photoshop web–specific tools to create parts of a simple landing page mockup. Photoshop for the Web Part 2  Use Photoshop web–specific tools to create...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software, used by designers and illustrators who want to create digital graphics, logos, illustrations, and original typography. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe Illustrator in just one day. The focus will be on step-by-step...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe Photoshop, the professional digital imaging standard, used by photographers and designers who want to perfect their digital images. Photoshop allows you to create powerful images and designs. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop in just three hours. The focus will be...

Participants will learn how powerful a tool like Tableau can be to showcase data in a visually insightful manner. The major difference between the workshop and this bootcamp is the accelerated level of functionalities that will be taught. Participants will sign up for a free trial of Tableau Desktop and be given a large data set for hands on trainings...

This is a part time course. Unit 1: Design Process Intro to UX & Design Thinking  Explain course expectations in terms of pre-work, homework, projects, office hours, Schoology, etc.  Define the elements of User Experience Design.  Develop basic skills in creative problem solving, innovation, and human-centered design through...

This 3-day course teaches key techniques for working in Dreamweaver while editing and creating HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  Learn how to  Create web pages for the modern web Use and customize popular web frameworks to build web pages for a wide variety of desktop computers and mobile devices with a minimum of hand coding Incorporate...

This 3-day course covers techniques for working in Adobe Photoshop CC, including how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print and the web. In addition to learning the essential elements of the Photoshop interface, the course will cover features like the new Frame tool, designing reflected...

The keyboard that you type on, Siri, email, audio books, captions on Facebook videos, remote controls – these were all originally designed for people with disabilities, yet they significantly changed everyone's world. Often, as designers we get so caught up in accessible legal standards and the WCAG that we don’t realize just how powerful designing...

The objective of AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT Essentials is to enable students to create a basic 2D drawing in the AutoCAD software. Even at this fundamental level, the AutoCAD software is one of the most sophisticated computer applications that you are likely to encounter. Therefore learning to use it can be challenging. AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT Essentials covers...

You know what you want when it comes to designing your site, but what about your users? In this workshop, you’ll get the opportunity to think through your current sites/projects from your users’ perspectives by physically mapping out their concerns in space. Utilizing various techniques to gather user research, you’ll be given an opportunity...

This 3-day course teaches students step-by-step the key techniques for working with InDesign CC (2019 Release).  The 15 project-based step-by-step lessons show users the key techniques for working in InDesign. Designers will build a solid foundation of typographic, page layout, and document-construction skills that will enable them to produce...

Design Thinking is an approach organizations use to better understand the needs of people in order to create the most innovative and intuitive products. This creative problem-solving approach stresses the importance of empathy, focuses on the experiences of end users, and integrates an iterative process as part of the final product. Great design doesn’t...

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...