Design & Creativity Courses

Gamification

58 reviews

Gamification is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as business and social impact challenges. This course will teach you the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

University System of Maryland;  University of Maryland

Product Design, Prototyping, and Testing

34 reviews

Translate product ideas into tangible assets by creating wireframes, 3D renderings, prototypes, and minimum viable products (MVPs) to test assumptions and validate customer interests

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford Seminar - Mobile, Social, and Fashion: Three Stories from Data-Driven Design

1 review

How to leverage data to build better design tools and scaffold the design process? How can one understand how to use designs to leverage preferred outcomes?

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society

18 reviews

This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. We…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

22 reviews

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 13th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Design: From Concept to Prototype

249 ratings at Coursera

Great design doesn’t come out of nowhere; it is born, nurtured, and grown--all through a systematic, learnable process. In this UX course, you will explore the process of taking a basic concept, grounded in user needs, and developing it into a design tha…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX Research at Scale: Surveys, Analytics, Online Testing

167 ratings at Coursera

This UX course will provide an overview of survey methodology from the perspective of UX research. UX surveys typically focus on uncovering user needs, connecting needs to user characteristics, and gaining insight into user attitudes towards systems they…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

User Experience & Interaction Design for AR/VR/MR/XR

92 ratings at Coursera

This second course in the XR for Everybody specialization looks at how to design new user experiences for XR technologies. The course provides learners with a design thinking mindset and equips them with a fundamental toolbox for creating XR applications…

• Coursera
• 28 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

UX (User Experience) Capstone

50 ratings at Coursera

In this UX capstone course, you’ll conduct a multi-stage user experience project to design a product from scratch. You will employ interviews, inspection methods, and user testing, along with ideation, design, and prototyping methods to gain and communic…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to User Experience Design

7467 ratings at Coursera

The focus of this course is to introduce the learner to User Experience (UX) Design User Experience design is design that is user centered. The goal is to design artifacts that allow the users to meet their needs in the most effective efficient and sati…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to UI Design

5 reviews

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the critical importance of user interface design. You will also learn industry-standard methods for how to approach the design of a user interface and key theories and frameworks that underlie the design…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Acadgild

Graphic Design Tutorials

13 reviews

Learn the fundamentals of Graphic Design and Photoshop Tools

• YouTube
• 2-3 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Figma

New to Figma? Get started with "Figma for beginners" tutorials

12 reviews

This playlist gives a quick tour of the key features of Figma.

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Michigan State University

Design and Make Infographics (Project-Centered Course)

930 ratings at Coursera

In this project-centered course*, you will create a content-rich infographic on a topic of your choice using Adobe Illustrator (which you can download for a free, 30-day trial). You might choose to create a visual representation of data from the world of…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

User Experience: Research & Prototyping

892 ratings at Coursera

What makes for a great user experience? How can you consistently design experiences that work well, are easy to use and people want to use? This course will teach you the core process of experience design and how to effectively evaluate your work with t…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Feb, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)