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The Narrative Web: storytelling applied to UX/UI design – Chiara Aliotta

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The Narrative Web Information Use storytelling to enhance your UX/UI design skills. Create purposeful stories to captivate your audience. In this online course, you will delve into the captivating world of storytelling and discover its application in UX design. Join Chiara Aliotta, an accomplished designer and art director, as she takes you on a journey to explore how storytelling can create meaningful interactions and establish emotional connections with your audience. Through engaging lessons, you'll gain a deep understanding of storytelling fundamentals and learn how to incorporate them into your UX and UI designs. Chiara will guide you through the process of crafting compelling narratives for digital products, starting with an introduction to storytelling and its uses in UX design. Explore elements such as audience, purpose, characters, and context, and discover how they contribute to creating immersive user experiences. Learn about the structure of a narrative and the ...

Making Design Decisions: How to design effective user interfaces at warp-speed – Tommy Geoco

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Making Design Decisions Information This book outlines a step-by-step process for making good design decisions quickly. This price will increase this summer. While this workbook incorporates a few beginner concepts, it is not a beginner's guide for pre-career designers. It is a reference handbook for product builders. It is the culmination of 13 years of practice, mentorship, and research collected throughout my career. I created it for craftspeople who are in the trenches of shipping digital products in highly competitive markets or finding product-market fit via rapid market entry. My mission is to help you if you've ever said to yourself: “Does this UI design decision matter?” “I wish I could think and move faster in my design workflow." “I want to align my UI decisions to our business goals." Here’s what you’ll learn: Part 1: Design decision framework (version 1 - January 13) Learn the strategy for rapid-firing through desig...

Introduction to Food Photography with Natural Light – Adrian Mueller

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Introduction to Food Photography with Natural Light Information Learn to capture striking images of food in both indirect and direct sunlight by exploring composition, lighting, and editing techniques “One of the most important elements of a successful food image is how the light and its mood touches us.” Photographer Adrian Mueller specializes in taking mouth-watering food and beverage images for clients including McDonald’s, and Kellogg’s, often using natural light to tell authentic stories through his work. In this online course, he teaches you how to create stunning images of food using daylight. Explore the fundamentals of food photography, as well as techniques for composition, lighting, editing, to produce professional-looking photographs of your favorite dishes. Let the beauty and simplicity of daylight inspire you to capture something special. Here’s what you’ll learn Introduction About Me Influences The Fundamentals of Photography and Prepara...

Code Your Own Website (HTML & CSS Basics) – Matthew Brennan

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Code Your Own Website Information Have you ever wanted to create your first website, but think that it might be too difficult? Maybe you don't know where to start, or have tried and get lost in all the technical code jargon? Don't dismiss web design because you think that coding is too difficult because I'll let you into a little secret, it's easy! Take my course and I will teach you how to create a professional website without any prior coding ability. You'll learn how to build your website in HTML, style it in CSS and even host it online so your family, friends, and even other businesses can see it. In a matter of a few hours, this course will teach you the basics and get you up to speed with the world of website design and development quickly. By the end of the lessons, you will have created an attractive, professional, and mobile responsive website that you can be proud of! We will break each stage of the process down into easy steps: We will lo...

Timeless Logo Designs: The Creative Process – Kwaku Amprako

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Timeless Logo Designs Information Do you want improve your craft and start creating timeless logos? You’re in the right place. The Timeless Logo Design course is your new creative chapter! In this online logo design course, you'll learn the basics of timeless logos, as well as how to start developing timeless symbols that is 100% your own. Your creative thinking as a logo designer will shift, and you’ll have an effective approach when tackling logo designs Effective logo design is all about visually communicating a brand’s message to their audience. When a logo comes to represent all of the feelings that a brand embodies, that logo becomes timeless. The most successful logo designers understand the creative processes required to craft a timeless logo. In this course, you will learn how to design timeless logos. You will learn to generate impactful ideas by elevating your thought process and mastering the art of thinking outside the box. You will also learn how to spec...

Advanced Food Photography: Styling, Lighting, & Retouching – Rob Grimm

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Advanced Food Photography Information This is the most comprehensive tutorial on food photography available. The 17 hours of content will guide you through gear selection, understanding shape & form, creating a sense of place & time, basic food styling techniques, in-studio portfolio work, and location assignments, along with marketing and pricing strategies for food photography. The documentary serves as a guide for the entire process involved with the business and is filled with industry-standard best practices. LEARN TO CREATE APPETITE APPEAL FOR YOUR CLIENTS This is the most comprehensive tutorial on food photography available. The 17 hours of content will guide you through gear selection, understanding shape & form, creating a sense of place & time, basic food styling techniques, in-studio portfolio work, and location assignments, along with marketing and pricing strategies for food photography. The documentary serves as a guide for the entire process inv...

Food and Design Dive – Marije Vogelzang

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Food and Design Dive Information Introducing the new 10-week online course by Food & Design pioneer Marije Vogelzang Whether you’re an established chef, a product designer, a brand new food scientist, or still in school, your world revolves around food. MARRY YOUR PASSIONS OF FOOD AND DESIGN… Imagine using your love of food and design to: Help reduce obesity around the world Create dinners so powerful they form a lifelong memory Get kids to LOVE vegetables! To create alternatives for food waste Turn the chore of grocery shopping into a healthy pleasure Connect people to the earth, their food, and each other Earn a living through your passion of being creative with food CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK, AND APPROACH, EATING… It's perfect for those wanting to use their love of food and innovation to change lives: Food Designers/retailers who connect people with food Chefs who crave inspiration Food Design students ...