This is a course aimed at making you a better designer. The course marries theory and practice, as both are valuable in improving design performance. Lectures and readings will lay out the fundamental concepts that underpin design as a human activity. Weekly design challenges test your ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems. The course is deliberately broad - spanning all domains of design, including architecture, graphics, services, apparel, engineered goods, and products. The emphasis of the course is the basic design process: define, explore, select, and refine. You, the student, bring to the course your particular interests and expertise related to, for instance, engineering, furniture, fashion, architecture, or products. In prior sessions of the course about half of the participants were novices and about half had prior professional design expertise. Both groups seem to benefit substantially from the course. All project work is evaluated by your peers -- and indeed, you will also be a peer reviewer. This format allows you to see an interesting collection of projects while getting useful feedback on your own project.

In this project you will create several forms, you will see how each of them are at a different point on the page. Our job will be to create the shape, give it the color, we can combine some if you want, and then we will align them all at the same time. Sounds fun? This alignment tool is very useful when we want each of our shapes to be centered, well marginalized, and even. We do not have to do this manual management one by one or only visually. With this tool we are allowed to do the alignments very easily and not one by one. Is not a manual process, here you can see the easy process of aligning an artwork. The alignment tool has several ways to be accessed, here you will learn the long and short steps to see how to find the alignment tool. For this project we will be creating four frames, they can be of the same or different size. Adobe Illustrator is a program that will allow you to create figures, logos, and images for all kinds of occasions, whether professional or educational. Today we will also see options of measures, colors, that will help you to strengthen your knowledge in this application. For this project, you will need a basic understanding of the application, as well as a basic understanding of how to create figures and add color to those figures.

By the end of this project, you will know how to use Canva to promote and advertise your business on Facebook. You will learn how to create a Facebook Ad, a Facebook Post and a Facebook Cover with the help of Canva. We will use templates, and create designs from scratch. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements. Creating high quality advertisements is the perfect way to proactively engage with your target audience. This project will include intermediate to advanced level skills using the free version of Canva. 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.

The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understanding of the intersection of poverty and the marketplace. The goals of this course are to help you develop an understanding of marketplace activity in the radically different context of subsistence where much of humanity resides and survives, and for you to design solutions that can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and social enterprises through economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable products for subsistence marketplaces.

This free online course is one of 10 courses available in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection, designed for entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. This course will examine negotiation and explore the tools you need in order to negotiate confidently, as you pursue opportunities for business growth. You will consider some common assumptions and preconceptions about negotiation, identify your preferred style of negotiation, and review how it compares with the style of others. You will then explore the practical and psychological preparation necessary for successful negotiation. This involves setting up your goals and expectations and identifying the zone of possible agreement. You will discover effective listening tactics and evaluate your own listening skills. At the end of this course, you will work through a negotiation scenario to apply and practice your negotiation skills. The 10,000 Women course collection offers a truly flexible online learning experience. You have the freedom to approach the program in any way that works for you – take any course, or combination of courses, to tailor your learning journey to your individual business growth needs. If you choose to take all 10 courses, you will explore all the key elements of your business and develop a thorough plan for your business’s growth. You can find out more about the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection in the FAQs.

Digital-driven changes are both generic and specific. Most transformations apply to all industries, equally and without exception. But in some industries or places, digital transformations are singular and atypical. To be a player in the digital world, you will need to master both the transformations common to all industries and the transformations at work on certain verticals. Retail and the sharing economy are emblematic of markets where specific transformations are unfolding. This module will tell you how. Week 1 : New business models, new perimeters Week 2 : Regulating the digital innovation Week 3 : The value of digital innovation

By the end of this project, you will create printables that you can use to structure your day, improve your productivity and enhance your performance. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value added business marketing collateral. Creating high quality teaching printables is the perfect way to offer digital products to your students, blog readers or clients to market your business and grow it. This project will include intermediate to advanced level skills using the free version of Canva. 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.

In this guided tutorial, you will learn how to setup a followers campaign on Twitter. Note: This tutorial works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We're currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

In this 1 hr 40 mins long project-based course, you will learn about the process of developing a new product for start-up companies, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). You will learn about idea generation and the evaluation processes in product development by using an idea generation model and online resources like Google Trends and Amazon. You will use methods to evaluate your product concept through market segmentation, growth potential, and the competition to your product. You will also evaluate a supplier and the cost to your product by analyzing component prices and production rates. By the end of this project, you will be able to create a full retrospective plan for the product launch and understand how and why the specifications are done. 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.

In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to design an eBook cover using Canva that looks professional, elegant and eye-catching. You will be designing two ebook covers: one using Professional ebook cover pre-built templates and another completely from scratch. You will also learn about important things that as a writer you must know before choosing a Template, Title and Pen name. We will be primarily focusing on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing(KDP) although the eBook cover can also be used for other marketplaces. I myself have published 4 books through Amazon KDP available in both ebook and Paperback versions. By the end of this project, you will be confident in creating an eBook cover that is of extremely High Quality. You can just download the eBook cover and upload it on Amazon. So, whether you are a writer who is looking to self publish an ebook on Amazon Kindle or you are a Freelancer looking to get into the ebook freelancing market, you will find this guided project extremely beneficial. We will be using Canva for our guided project. Canva is a Cloud-based graphic design online software that has thousands of templates and designs to choose from. It is free and has lots of features to choose from. You don't need any prior experience in ebook cover design or graphics design inorder for you to complete this 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.