Web Design Classes Detroit, MI

This UX design course is designed to help individuals with little to no UX experience learn the common tools and concepts to launch their UX career. Through their blended learning model, students will be able to hone their UX design skills through 20 hours of introductory lessons, in-class project work, and though the support of a devoted career coach. Students in this course will start their UX journeys by learning the foundations and fundamentals in UX, like the design process, affinity mapping, rapid prototyping, and usability testing. As the course progresses, students will switch to UI foundations, design iteration and development, and best practices when working with a product team. The program concludes with UX's real-world implications, like working with clients and projects, as well as a final stage dedicated entirely to career planning and building your personal brand.

This beginner UX course is a 40-hour in-person or online program aimed at giving students the fundamentals to succeed in the fast-paced field of UX. The course curriculum covers a range of important UX topics, including user experience research, content strategy, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. Students build skills quickly through GA's hands-on approach, and students will build experience with two of the most common platforms in the industry: Sketch and Invision. Graduates of the program walk away with a capstone project in addition to foundational skills required to start a career in UX design.

This visual design course is a flexible program meant to help individuals with little to no prior experience get exposure and learn how to create stunning digital products. Through their blended learning model, students will gain access to pre-learning and setup videos to hit the ground running. Students in this course will gain the ability to use visual techniques to guide influence customer emotions, communicate simple solutions, and center attention with layouts and patterns. This course will also give students a better understanding of using typeface to convey meaning, improve messaging, understand the psychology of color, and use visual communication best practices to make sure your message resonates with key stakeholders. This course is punctuated with a final project where students showcase their visual design knowledge through a production-ready mockup to be displayed on a dynamic web page.

This program covers the skills needed to start building responsive websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — a versatile skill set with powerful applications in a variety of design, marketing, and other tech-related roles. Open to complete beginners, this course equips students with the cutting-edge tools they need to build rich, interactive websites. Participants will dive into essential programming languages, then round out their skill sets with industry-relevant topics like responsive design, APIs, and version control. Finally, they’ll apply these new skills to build a custom website from scratch.

This 3-day JavaScript and jQuery Programming course is designed for individuals who are new to website programming and are eager to learn the fundamentals of building web pages. This course is split into two parts, with part one focusing on all the essentials of JavaScript, like conditional expressions, statements, objects, functions, debugging applications, and more. Part two is built around programming with jQuery and features modules that introduce students to jQuery plugins, UI widgets, and how to work with different data elements (strings, dates, numbers, etc.) in jQuery.

This 3-day HTML5 and CSS course is designed for individuals who are new to website development and are eager to learn the best practices around web design and development. This course starts out with an introduction to web development and moves onto HTML and CSS syntax, how to use HTML to format web pages, and how to use CSS to structure various elements of a web page. This course also covers a variety of page layouts, working with lists, links and navigation menus, using responsive web design, and using Flexible Box Layout for a better user interface.

This 2-day WordPress course is designed for individuals with no prior WordPress experience but who are enthusiastic about learning the fundamentals of WordPress for creating impressive websites, blogs, and more. This course starts out with an introduction to WordPress and understanding the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The course also covers developing quality blog content, using pages, media libraries, and importing/exporting content, and how and why to use plugins.

In this two-day advanced course, participants use their fluency in CSS and HTML to build websites that are feature-laden and visually attractive. After a brief review of essential skills, instruction quickly moves to the mastery of forms, images, tables, printing, fonts, and icons. Participants also learn how to add video and audio components to their sites, effectively utilize Cascading Style Sheets, and publish a site onto a server.

Receive an introduction to CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript in this five-day course. Many participants move onto careers as web or app developers. Working professionals with one to three months of HTML5 experience, along with some background in JavaScript coding and CSS styling, usually do well in this class. After an overview of CSS and HTML, course curriculum moves to HTML5 pages and advanced JavaScript development. Next, participants use forms to collect user data, interface with remote data sources, use JavaScript to create methods and objects, shape advanced graphics, and use web sockets to improve real-time communications.

Build on basic jQuery, CSS, HTML and JavaScript concepts in this two-day course. Utilizing hands-on learning, participants work with JSON and Ajax to control exceptions, structures, and expressions. Other advanced topics include browser objects, web storage, arrays, plugins, patterns, IIFEs, and closures.