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Graphic Design Courses

Graphic design courses can help you learn typography, color theory, layout design, and branding strategies. You can build skills in creating visual content for both print and digital platforms, as well as developing a keen eye for aesthetics and composition. Many courses introduce tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, that support executing design projects and bringing your creative ideas to life.


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    University of Virginia

    Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

    Skills you'll gain: Design Thinking, Stakeholder Engagement, Innovation, Prototyping, Brainstorming, Storytelling, Human Centered Design, Social Impact, Ideation, Creativity, Customer experience improvement, Service Design, Design Research, Process Mapping, User Experience, Problem Solving, Complex Problem Solving, Qualitative Research, Data Visualization

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

    Introduction to Systems Engineering

    Skills you'll gain: Systems Engineering, Conceptual Design, Systems Design, Requirements Analysis, Systems Development Life Cycle, Requirements Elicitation, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Engineering Design Process, System Design and Implementation, Concept Of Operations, Configuration Management, Prototyping, System Requirements, Design Reviews, Verification And Validation

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    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Rice University

    Business Finance and Data Analysis Fundamentals

    Skills you'll gain: Capital Budgeting, Cash Flows, Probability & Statistics, Finance, Financial Statements, Microsoft Excel, Descriptive Statistics, Financial Accounting, Business Analytics, Box Plots, Probability Distribution, Data Visualization, Probability, Statistics, Ledgers (Accounting), Financial Analysis, Business Valuation, Business Mathematics, Financial Management, Data Analysis

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    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Whizlabs

    Microsoft Fabric: Monitor and Optimize an Analytics Solution

    Skills you'll gain: Azure Synapse Analytics, Performance Tuning, System Monitoring, Data Lakes, Transact-SQL, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Star Schema, Microsoft Azure, Real Time Data, Power BI, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Apache Spark, Data Modeling, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), PySpark, Data Pipelines, Data Transformation, Debugging

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Skillshare

    Surface Pattern Design: Principles, Drawing and Collections

    Skills you'll gain: Adobe Photoshop, Journals, Design Thinking, Layout Design, Software Design Patterns, Creative Design, Design Elements And Principles, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Creativity, Design Strategies, Graphic and Visual Design, Design, Digital Design

    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Michigan

    Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

    Skills you'll gain: File I/O, Data Import/Export, Python Programming, Functional Design, Programming Principles, Data Structures, Debugging

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google

    Decisions, Decisions: Dashboards and Reports

    Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Business Intelligence, Tableau Software, Business Reporting, Data Presentation, Data Visualization Software, Data Visualization, Stakeholder Communications, Interviewing Skills, LinkedIn, Presentations, Performance Improvement, Performance Analysis

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    Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Johns Hopkins University

    Principles of fMRI 1

    Skills you'll gain: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Imaging, Research Design, Image Analysis, Experimentation, Neurology, Data Preprocessing, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Statistical Inference, Statistics

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Google

    The Path to Insights: Data Models and Pipelines

    Skills you'll gain: Data Modeling, Database Design, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Warehousing, Data Pipelines, Business Intelligence, Data Mart, Database Management, Data Management, Process Optimization, Data Quality, Data Transformation, Performance Testing

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    Google

    Start Writing Prompts like a Pro

    Skills you'll gain: Multimodal Prompts, Prompt Engineering, Responsible AI, Context Management

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    University of Alberta

    Introduction to Software Product Management

    Skills you'll gain: Agile Software Development, Agile Methodology, Requirements Analysis, Software Development, Requirements Management, Product Management, Software Engineering, Project Planning, Process Development, Project Management

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    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Scrimba

    Frontend Development

    Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, JSON, User Interface (UI) Design, Color Theory, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and CSS, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Restful API, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Event-Driven Programming, User Interface (UI), Web Design, Typography, Web Applications, Application Programming Interface (API), React.js, Web Design and Development, Web Development Tools, Javascript, Web Development

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    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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

  • Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector: University of Virginia
  • Introduction to Systems Engineering: UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
  • Business Finance and Data Analysis Fundamentals: Rice University
  • Microsoft Fabric: Monitor and Optimize an Analytics Solution: Whizlabs
  • Surface Pattern Design: Principles, Drawing and Collections: Skillshare
  • Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries: University of Michigan
  • Decisions, Decisions: Dashboards and Reports: Google
  • Principles of fMRI 1: Johns Hopkins University
  • The Path to Insights: Data Models and Pipelines: Google
  • Start Writing Prompts like a Pro: Google

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