Build a career-ready design portfolio while learning the tools and workflows shaping modern creative work. This live certificate program covers graphic design, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, UX & UI design, AI image generation, and AI-assisted app development.
Through hands-on projects, live instruction, and guided feedback, students create portfolio-ready design work, practice user research and prototyping, explore multi-model AI image workflows, and build live web applications using AI coding tools. By the end of the program, students will have a polished design portfolio, a documented UX case study, and deployed projects they can share with employers, clients, or collaborators.
What You Will Learn
- Apply core design principles, including color, typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, and Gestalt theory
- Create professional graphics, photo composites, logos, icons, illustrations, and brand assets using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Design multi-page layouts, marketing materials, and print-ready documents in Adobe InDesign
- Build responsive UI layouts, components, prototypes, design systems, and UX case studies in Figma
- Use AI image tools such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E/GPT-Image, and Google Imagen for creative workflows
- Build, test, and deploy live portfolio-ready apps using AI coding tools, databases, authentication, hosting, and custom domains
Program Courses
Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp
Learn how to retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics in Photoshop. This course covers the basic and intermediate features of Photoshop such as color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, filters, and saving files for web/video/print.
Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp
Learn how to draw and edit vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator. This course covers the basics and advanced features, including the Pen tool, effects, layers, masks, and more. Perfect for creating logos, icons, and more.
Adobe InDesign Bootcamp
Learn how to design professional page layouts in Adobe InDesign. In this course you’ll create a book, magazine spread, brochure, restaurant menu, and business card as you learn to work with graphics, style text, and design layouts.
Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp
Learn the fundamentals of graphic design as you get hands-on experience and produce real-world projects. Broaden your understanding of graphic design concepts, understand the elements of design, and expand your portfolio in this comprehensive graphic design course.
Figma Bootcamp
Start learning Figma for UI/UX design. Gain a solid understanding of its capabilities, from creating files, to designing on a grid, working with text/photos/colors, creating components, building prototypes, exporting assets, sharing files, creating animations, and more.
Figma Advanced
Take your Figma skills to the next level with this advanced prototyping course. Learn to use variables, modes, and conditionals to add more realistic interactivity to your prototypes.
UI Design Bootcamp
Learn the skills needed to launch a career in UI design in this advanced course. Gain expertise in UI fundamentals, wireframing, visual design concepts, and more. Build your portfolio through hands-on projects and personalized feedback.
UX Design Foundations
Discover the essence of UX Design. From UX vs. UI to usability testing and prototyping, delve into the intricacies of user experience design. Gain practical skills in research, wireframing, and more. Elevate your design game with this comprehensive course.
UX & UI Design Bootcamp
Learn the applied UX and UI design process through hands-on projects. Practice user research, user flow mapping, wireframing, responsive interface design, prototyping, usability testing, iteration, and UX case study development.
AI for Graphic Design
Leverage the power of cutting-edge AI features in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign, as well as AI image generation tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, and Google Gemini in this hands-on class.
AI Coding Bootcamp with Claude Code
Take command of the full process of planning, building, and deploying real web applications with Claude Code in this beginner-friendly bootcamp packed with expert instruction, interactive practice, seven labs, and a capstone project.
AI Design Portfolio Development
Create three projects from a selection of seven options, such as a portfolio website, interactive design system, brand studio, social creative tool, pitch deck designer, brand identity app, or motion studio.