By the end of this project, you will be able to create a 3D, perspective text effect using Adobe Photoshop. Throughout the project, you will be able to use Adobe Photoshop with its different tools. You will be able to create a 3D and perspective text effect that you will use to create an architecture firm logo along with the landing page of their website. You will be exposed to the Vanishing Point Filter as well as the 3D workspace on Photoshop. This guided project is for intermediate graphic designers and intermediate digital designers who are interested in learning how to create a 3D and perspective text effect in Adobe Photoshop. Using the tools in Adobe Photoshop, an architecture firm logo along with the landing page of their website. By creating this, you will contribute to completing the branding of the architecture firm knowing that a logo is always one of the most important pillars of a successful branding and this project will help you achieve that. Adobe Photoshop is a software that is extensively used for raster image editing, graphic design and digital art. It makes use of layering to allow for depth and flexibility in the design and editing process, as well as provide powerful tools that, when combined, are capable of just about anything. It will be, undoubtedly, a great asset throughout your future career as a designer.

This course is for anyone passionate in learning how a hardware component can be adapted at runtime to better respond to users/environment needs. This adaptation can be provided by the designers, or it can be an embedded characteristic of the system itself. These runtime adaptable systems will be implemented by using FPGA technologies. Within this course we are going to provide a basic understanding on how the FPGAs are working and of the rationale behind the choice of them to implement a desired system. This course aims to teach everyone the basics of FPGA-based reconfigurable computing systems. We cover the basics of how to decide whether or not to use an FPGA and, if this technology will be proven to be the right choice, how to program it. This is an introductory course meant to guide you through the FPGA world to make you more conscious on the reasons why you may be willing to work with them and in trying to provide you the sense of the work you have to do to be able to gain the advantages you are looking for by using these technologies. We rely on some extra readings to provide more information on the topic covered in this course. Please NOTE that most of the time, these documents are provided through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which means that, to access them, you have to have a valid IEEE subscriptions, either does by yourself or through your university/company. The course has no prerequisites and avoids all but the simplest mathematics and it presents technical topics by using analogizes to help also a student without a technical background to get at least a basic understanding on how an FPGA works. One of the main objectives of this course is to try to democratize the understanding and the access to FPGAs technologies. FPGAs are a terrific example of a powerful technologies that can be used in different domains. Being able to bring this technologies to domain experts and showing them how they can improve their research because of FPGAs, can be seen as the ultimate objective of this course. Once a student completes this course, they will be ready to take more advanced FPGA courses.

To deliver agile outcomes, you have to do more than implement agile processes- you have to create focus around what matters to your user and constantly test your ideas. This is easier said than done, but most of today’s high-functioning innovators have a strong culture of experimentation. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify the right questions at the right time, and pair them with the right methods to do just enough testing to make sure you minimize waste and maximize the outcomes you create with your user. This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.

By the end of this project, you will be able to design a promotional poster for a music festival using Adobe Illustrator. Throughout the project, you will be able to create eye catching design elements using basic shapes, shape tools and paths. You will also be able to combine information with visuals and identify the importance of hierarchy. This guided project is for graphic design beginners who are interested in pursuing a career in design. Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based program, which is why it covers a wide range of design tasks. Learning to use it and being familiar with using the tools thoroughly gives you a variety of skill sets that you can flexibly utilize in future projects.

Explore the growing competitive gaming phenomenon that has changed the lives of millions of gamers and non-gamers alike while challenging the concept of a sport. In this Teach-Out. you'll join a conversation about the history of esports as well as gain an understanding of who participates in esports, how esports teams are formed, and how competitive gameplay works. Hearing directly from competitive players, leaders of collegiate esports programs, and industry insiders, you'll explore the societal impact of esports and look ahead to the future of the industry. You'll explore these topics in this Teach-Out: History of competitive gaming and esports players. How to watch, play, and compete in esports. Emerging career pathways within the esports landscape. Societal impacts of the esports industry, including diversity, equity, inclusion challenges in gaming culture. The future of the esports industry.

In this course, critique is defined as a detailed, objective analysis of a work of graphic design and its effectiveness. Critique is an integral part of the making process for designers: it’s not just how we determine if a work of design is or is not successful, it’s how we move our work forward. Critique is also where other voices and opinions can be brought into the design process. This course will introduce a lexicon (or vocabulary) in order for you to demonstrate clearer and more considered ways of talking about graphic design in the context of critique. Through this lexicon and a provided Critique Framework, we will model and then practice objectively describing how well a work of design functions based on specific, clearly articulated criteria. By refining this skill, you will enhance your ability to communicate about design with peers, colleagues, and clients. This course is essential to anyone looking to develop and refine a critical vocabulary around talking about art and design, such as: - practicing graphic designers at all levels - future and current students of art or design programs - teachers teaching visual art, design, or related subjects - any stakeholder in a design project that needs to communicate effectively with designers on their team. This course is recommended to learners enrolled in either the Graphic Design Specialization or UI/UX Design Specialization on Coursera to further develop their skills in graphic design. You may take this course before, during, or after completing either Specialization. Note this is not an art appreciation course for a general audience. While no prior experience is required to begin, the knowledge and skills taught in this course is useful only if you have some relationship to design in a professional context, i.e., practicing, studying, or teaching design, or working directly with designers. No specific software or tools are required to complete this course.

At the end of this project, you will have all the basic skills to create a professional Newsletter using SendinBlue, an online tool for creating professional Email Campaigns. You will be able to share your latest news and inform your favorite target audience, promote your brand and grow your business with beautifully designed emails. This project is intended for beginners, small business owners and startups who would like to create, share and analyze their Email campaigns.

By the end of this project, you will be able to create an Instagram post for a Diner using Adobe Photoshop. Throughout the project, you will be able to use Adobe Photoshop with its different tools. You will be able to create a neon effect on your typography and shapes. You will edit and color correct an image to use in the layout of the Instagram post. This guided project is for intermediate graphic designers and intermediate digital designers who are interested in learning how to create an Instagram post in Adobe Photoshop using the neon effect for the typography and edit an image to be at the centre of the layout. By creating this, you will contribute to advertising the restaurant/diner on one of the most known social media platforms, by reaching out to a large number of your targeted group of people. Adobe Photoshop is a software that is extensively used for raster image editing, graphic design and digital art. It makes use of layering to allow for depth and flexibility in the design and editing process, as well as provide powerful tools that, when combined, are capable of just about anything. It will be, undoubtedly, a great asset throughout your future career as a designer.

This course will give you a first look at using git to manage your code's version control, as well as offering an introduction to accessing the Github tools you'll need as a beginner. Developers need version control, and git is an industry standard. Github's ability to make a repository easily accessible to a distributed team, as well as its support for agile development, make it a valuable tool for every developer's toolbox. By the end of this project, you will create a Github-hosted repository forked from an open-source project and start a Github repository of your own. You'll learn about forking and cloning projects, creating branches to work on a repository in your development environment, pushing your changes, reverting changes, and keeping commits clean. With this introduction, you'll be one step closer to mastering the tools every developer needs to create a new app, a fork of a favorite tool, or the next big project. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

By the end of this project, you will be able to create a detailed storyboard illustrating an entire overview of a person’s routine. Throughout the project, you will be able to use and control the tools in the Storyboarder software to develop detailed illustrations. Moreover, you will create and apply pre-defined functions. This guided project is for beginner designers and/ or new business developers who want to visualise their observation research into a diagram. By creating a detailed storyboard it will help the designers/ entrepreneurs to analyse the entire daily routine of a user. This will help them highlight key problems/ struggles in a user’s day. This leads to the next step which is to choose one of those key problems and create an innovative design solution. In this project, we’ll be using Storyboarder, which is a completely free platform where we can write and create our storyboard.