AI Design Certificate Program Online

What you'll learn

• Apply design principles, color theory, typography, and grid-based layout to professional work
• Retouch, composite, and edit non-destructively in Adobe Photoshop
• Create vector logos, icons, and brand assets in Adobe Illustrator
• Design multi-page, print-ready documents in Adobe InDesign
• Build an eight-piece graphic design portfolio published to Adobe Portfolio
• Design and prototype interfaces in Figma with components, variants, and design tokens
• Conduct user research and document a portfolio-ready UX case study
• Generate and integrate AI imagery with correct commercial licensing
• Build and deploy three production web applications with AI coding tools

Course outline

1. 1 Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp Online 18 hours

   Retouch and color-correct photographs, combine images into seamless composites, and build graphics for web, video, and print using Photoshop's professional editing toolkit.

   • Retouch photographs and build graphics for digital, web, video, and print
   • Adjust color, brightness, and contrast to correct and enhance images
   • Isolate specific areas of an image using selections and layer masks
   • Work non-destructively with adjustment layers, Smart Objects, and smart filters
   • Remove and replace backgrounds cleanly
   • Apply Generative Fill and Generative Expand to extend and repair images
   • Process raw files in Camera Raw for maximum image quality
   • Create visual effects with filters, shadows, and blend modes
2. 2 Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp Online 18 hours

   Draw and edit vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator, from logos and icons to patterns and typography, and export them correctly for any medium.

   • Create icons, logos, patterns, and typographic artwork as scalable vector graphics
   • Master the Pen tool using guided tracing templates
   • Build complex shapes from simple ones using Pathfinder and shape-building tools
   • Work with appearance attributes, effects, layers, and masks
   • Produce rich color artwork with gradients, blends, and custom swatches
   • Convert raster artwork to vector with Image Trace
   • Explore color directions quickly using Generative Recolor
   • Export and package files correctly for web, digital, and print
3. 3 Adobe InDesign Bootcamp Online 18 hours

   Design professional multi-page layouts in Adobe InDesign and prepare print-ready files, building a book, magazine spread, brochure, menu, and business card along the way.

   • Build layouts that combine text, color, and graphics across multiple pages
   • Import, thread, and style text with paragraph, character, and nested styles
   • Control multi-page documents with parent pages and baseline grids
   • Define and apply color consistently throughout a document
   • Design short and long-form pieces: brochures, business cards, menus, magazines, and books
   • Apply professional typesetting techniques, including hyphenation and justification control
   • Package files and export print-ready PDF/X for commercial output
4. 4 Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp Online 30 hours

   Build a job-ready graphic design portfolio of eight professional projects, refined through critique and published as a portfolio website.

   • Apply the elements and principles of design to real-world briefs
   • Develop eight portfolio pieces spanning identity, editorial, collateral, and digital work
   • Design brand identity systems, including logos and supporting assets
   • Combine typography, layout, and color into cohesive compositions
   • Submit work for instructor feedback and refine it to a professional standard
   • Deepen your grasp of formal and conceptual design thinking
   • Refine work to a professional standard through iteration
   • Publish a curated portfolio website with Adobe Portfolio
5. 5 Figma Bootcamp Online 12 hours

   Design and prototype user interfaces in Figma using frames, auto layout, components, variants, and smart animations, then prepare your work for developer handoff.

   • Design UI and UX layouts for websites, apps, and digital products
   • Build responsive screens for mobile, tablet, and desktop using auto layout
   • Work on grids and export production-ready image assets
   • Create reusable components and variants to keep files consistent
   • Build interactive prototypes that move between screens and states
   • Add motion with smart animate
   • Share styles and components through team libraries and design tokens
   • Document designs and share files for developer handoff
6. 6 Figma Advanced Course Online 6 hours

   Add realistic interactivity to Figma prototypes with variables, modes, and conditionals, and build design systems that scale to light and dark themes.

   • Use Figma's advanced prototyping features to model real product behavior
   • Work with variables and variable modes
   • Add conditional logic so prototypes respond to user input
   • Organize complex files with sections
   • Build light and dark modes from a single variable collection
   • Structure design systems with primitive and semantic layers
7. 7 UI Design Portfolio Bootcamp Online 30 hours

   Learn UI design concepts and best practices, then build a portfolio of responsive website and mobile app designs in Figma.

   • Apply UI design concepts, conventions, and best practices
   • Design websites and mobile applications in Figma
   • Work with color, typography, layout, and spacing as a designer, not a technician
   • Use common interface patterns and components appropriately
   • Wireframe before committing to visual design
   • Design responsively across screen sizes
   • Develop portfolio projects that demonstrate UI capability
8. 8 UX Design Foundations Course Online 12 hours

   Learn the end-to-end user experience design process, from research and personas through information architecture, wireframing, and usability testing.

   • Understand what user experience design is and how it differs from UI design
   • See how UX designers work and collaborate across a product team
   • Follow the UX design process from research through iteration
   • Apply research methods including user interviews, observation, and heuristic evaluation
   • Produce core UX deliverables: personas, journey maps, and scenarios
   • Structure information architecture and user flows
   • Sketch and wireframe through an iterative design process
   • Document and present design work and the reasoning behind it
9. 9 UX & UI Design Bootcamp Online 114 hours

   Learn the applied UX and UI design process through hands-on projects. Practice user research, user flows, wireframing, responsive interface design, prototyping, usability testing, iteration, and UX case study development.

   • Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, competitive analysis, and usability testing
   • Create personas, journey maps, user flows, and information architecture to guide design decisions
   • Design wireframes, responsive layouts, and polished UI projects for web and mobile interfaces
   • Apply usability principles, accessibility standards, and common UI patterns to improve user experiences
   • Build interactive prototypes and iterate on designs based on feedback, usability findings, and project goals
   • Document your process in a portfolio-ready UX case study that demonstrates user-centered design thinking
10. 10 AI for Graphic Design & Multi-Model Workflows Course Online 30 hours

    Use Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E, and Google Imagen to generate and refine professional design assets, with the prompt engineering and licensing knowledge commercial work requires.

    • Generate and refine images across Firefly, Midjourney, Leonardo, DALL-E, and Google Imagen
    • Write and iterate prompts that produce usable, on-brief results
    • Choose the right model for each stage of a creative brief
    • Use AI features inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to speed production
    • Integrate AI output into production-ready design deliverables
    • Apply commercial licensing, indemnification, and copyright rules to AI-assisted work
    • Account for data privacy, resolution limits, and disclosure norms
    • Evaluate where AI genuinely helps a design workflow and where it does not
11. 11 AI Coding Tools & App Development Course Online 60 hours

    Learn to build, test, and deploy full-stack web applications with AI coding tools, covering prompting, version control, databases, authentication, security, and hosting.

    • Use AI coding tools confidently for real, multi-step development work
    • Prompt and steer AI with context setting, planning, review, and recovery techniques
    • Work with Git and GitHub for version control, branching, and code review
    • Understand web development fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, front end, and back end
    • Build full-stack applications with databases, authentication, and external APIs
    • Connect external services through MCP integrations and orchestrate sub-agents
    • Debug, test, and secure an application before release
    • Deploy production-ready applications to a live public URL
12. 12 AI Design Portfolio Development Course Online 90 hours

    Create projects such as a portfolio website, interactive design system, brand studio, social creative tool, pitch deck designer, or brand identity app.

    • Plan and scope portfolio-ready design applications based on your creative and career goals, with instructor guidance on selecting three projects from seven options
    • Build a custom portfolio website with project galleries, case studies, contact forms, asset uploads, hosting, and custom domains
    • Create interactive design tools, such as design systems with editable tokens, component previews, and exportable design variables
    • Develop AI-powered creative tools, including brand studios, social ad generators, pitch deck designers, and brand identity starter kits
    • Build motion and microinteraction tools with live previews, developer-ready handoff specs, and polished user interactions
    • Integrate databases, authentication, APIs, file uploads, responsive design, accessibility, and production polish into live portfolio applications