Design For Coders
What you'll learn
- Understand line, shape and form
- Understand the concept of space
- Understand color, tone and texture
- Understand color theory
- Apply color modes
- Use typographical lexicon
- Understand font families, styles and classifications
- Create designs with type
- Effectively understand and design for audience
- Create visual hierarchy in layouts
- Organize content
- Understand device differneces
- Understand the role of bandwidth
- Create effective buttons and links
- Create cool icons
- Utilize images effectively
- Integrate motion and sound into design
- Understand use of interactivity in design
- Create intuitive rollover states
- Learn to use wireframes
- Learn to use repetition as a design element
Requirements
- PC or Mac
Description
Are there web sites that have a design you really admire? Do you wish you could create attractive and effective designs? Are you "design-challenged" and need to know the basics of creating good-looking web sites, mobile apps or other digital media?
You may never be a world famous designer, but you can design attractive, effective and high-quality digital media by understanding the foundations of design. If you're a one-person shop and have to create interfaces even though you are trained as a developer. this course is for you! If you're approaching design for the first time and need to be able to apply your new design skills quickly, you need to take this course.
In this exciting series of lectures and activities, expert designer Joesph Caserto will start with the foundations including line, shape, space, color and texture and apply the design foundations to every day digital work. You'll learn to create beautiful typography, learn to understand your audience , create effective layouts and examine motion, sound and interactivity.
With over 30 fascinating video lectures, multiple lab exercises, and fascinating insight from your instructor, you'll be creating designs that everyone will be talking about.
Who this course is for:
- Coders
- Web Developers
- Web Designers
- Programmers
- Students
- Anyone who needs to learn to design!
Instructors
![Joseph Caserto](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 411 Reviews
- 6,174 Students
- 9 Courses
I'm Joseph Caserto, a design professional, educator, and consultant. I have over 30 years of experience as a publication art director and designer and worked on the staff of several national magazines before starting my own business. Since then, I've worked with many publications, including BusinessWeek, Marie Claire, PC, TV Guide, and Vibe. My projects have included helping to produce several issues of the iPad edition of Fortune, and consulting on the launch of Parents for iOS (Apple iPad) and Android (Samsung Galaxy).
I'm also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Digital Communications and Media, at New York University, School of Professional Studies, and an Adjunct Instructor at Pace University in the Masters in Publishing program. Formerly, I was an Adjunct Lecturer at the City College of New York, in the Art Department's Electronic Design and Multimedia Program. I have several online tutorials published and have been a guest critic and speaker at Cooper Union, and SUNY Fredonia.
I've consulted with clients including FP Design, The Archdiocese of New York, and The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York to help them learn and maximize the potential of their software, and to explore graphic design principles.
I earned a BFA, with Honors, in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute, where I completed one of the first classes that explored graphic design produced with a Macintosh. I'm a member of AIGA, Freelancers Union, the Graphic Artists Guild, and The Society of Publication Designers. A lifetime resident of New York State, I've lived in Brooklyn since the late 1980s.
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 13,548 Reviews
- 309,650 Students
- 62 Courses
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