Learn design applications and skills at Noble Desktop's New York campus or live online. From graphic design to motion graphics, UX, and more, we offer part-time certificate programs led by top designers.
Become a graphic designer. Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Explore design concepts in a project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.
Become a well-rounded web designer and start creating your portfolio. Learn to design webpages and emails, code them with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as build websites with WordPress.
Become a motion graphics designer. Learn motion graphics with animation and video editing (plus special effects) created in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a motion graphics demo reel.
Learn to design the UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) of websites and apps. From user research, to prototyping/testing, to creating visual designs in Adobe XD, and more, you’ll learn how to create effective and attractive designs.
Design mobile & web interfaces, learn graphic design fundamentals, and create a portfolio. Our Visual Design Certificate includes classes in Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphic Design & Visual Design.
Become a well-rounded Digital Designer: Graphic Design and Visual (UI) Design. Conquer the essential Adobe applications; learn design concepts and theory; and develop portfolio projects to showcase employers and clients
Become a video editor. Learn video editing (along with some motion graphics and audio editing) with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a video editing demo reel.
Become a video editor & motion graphics designer. Learn video editing, motion graphics (animation and video effects), and audio editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Cinema 4D Lite, and Audition. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a demo reel with video editing and motion graphics projects.
Become a well-rounded Adobe expert, learn design principles, and design & prototype a great user experience. Earn a certificate in graphic design in full or part-time New York State approved programs.
Become a graphic designer. Learn about design, typography, photo retouching, vector graphics, and much more as you study Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Explore design concepts in a project-based Graphic Design Bootcamp, where you’ll work on designs for your portfolio to show prospective employers or clients.
Get a solid understanding of Photoshop so you can retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics. In this class, you’ll start with the basics and then move on to more intermediate features. Learn about color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, paths, filters, type, and saving files for web/video/print.
Get a solid understanding of InDesign so you can create page layouts with type and graphics. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. You’ll work on a variety of projects such as books, magazines, and advertisements... learning about paragraph/character styles, colors, master pages, baseline grid, hyphenation, tables, and more.
Get a solid understanding of Illustrator so you can draw/edit vector graphics to create logos, icons, patterns, packaging, typography, and much more. In this class you’ll start with the basics and then move on to intermediate and advanced features. We’ll help you to master the Pen tool as well as compound paths, effects, layers, masks, patterns, blends, colors, how to save files for print/web, and more.
Learn the fundamentals of graphic design as you design and produce real-world projects. Broaden your understand of graphic design concepts, understand the elements of design, and expand your portfolio in this hands-on graphic design course.
Improve your photos by removing unwanted elements; use Adobe Lightroom to download, organize, and edit your photos; and learn to adjust color, contrast, and more in our Photo Retouching Certificate Program.
Get a solid understanding of Adobe XD so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of reusable design components, build clickable prototypes, add animations, export graphics, and much more.
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Learn to create and style webpages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and lay out responsive websites quickly with Flexbox & Grid. Learn by doing with our step-by-step workbooks and project-based curriculum.
Become a well-rounded web designer and start creating your portfolio. Learn to design webpages and emails, code them with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as build websites with WordPress.
Learn to create webpages by coding HTML & CSS. Learn best practices for structuring the content of your webpages with HTML, then styling the content with CSS. Start creating responsive websites that adapt to multiple screen sizes. After coding you’ll upload a site to make it live!
Kick your CSS skills up a notch by learning how to code more complex and visually interesting layouts. In this CSS training, you’ll learn about vector graphics (SVG), CSS variables, styling gradients, shadows, positioning, CSS animated transitions, transforms, responsive images, and much more.
Make your webpages more interesting and interactive with JavaScript & jQuery. Learn how to hide and show elements, add slideshows, validate forms, and much more. Once you know how to use jQuery & plugins, a whole world of cool things becomes available!
Learn how to use CSS flexbox and grid to layout and align webpage content, and make it adapt to different size screens. See how both of these newer CSS techniques are useful, and when to use each. You’ll also learn how to use Bootstrap (which uses Flexbox) to build out layouts quickly.
Become a motion graphics designer. Learn motion graphics with animation and video editing (plus special effects) created in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a motion graphics demo reel.
Adobe After Effects is a powerful tool for animation and video post-production. It can be used to create stand-alone videos, animations, special effects, animated titles, and much more. Use it to create compelling video content for social media, web, or even broadcast TV.
In this advanced After Effects course, you’ll master text and shape animations and learn how to create transitions between different compositions, learn motion and camera tracking, chroma keying to remove a greenscreen and much more. Through several hands-on real-world projects integrating graphic elements with audio, video and photo elements, we'll master the motion graphics and compositing workflows: the process motion graphics animators and compositors take, to create projects from conception to final delivery.
This hands-on, individualized course will take your current software and design skills to the next level. You'll learn the principles of motion graphics and the best practices to create unique motion graphics from concept to completion, resulting in projects worthy of including in your demo reel to show potential clients.
Learn to use Cinema 4D Lite to create 3D models, animations, and motion graphics for your After Effects projects.
Become a video editor. Learn video editing (along with some motion graphics and audio editing) with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a video editing demo reel.
Learn how to use Premiere Pro in this comprehensive 18-hour class. You’ll learn how to import and organize footage, put those elements into a timeline (sequence), clean up audio, color correct video, add titles, and more. We’ll then move onto more advanced features including mult-icam editing, color correction, speeding up and slowing down footage, green screen removal, and much more. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to create compelling video content using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Become a video editor & motion graphics designer. Learn video editing, motion graphics (animation and video effects), and audio editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Cinema 4D Lite, and Audition. Then showcase what you’ve learned by creating a demo reel with video editing and motion graphics projects.
This class is for students who took our Premiere Pro in a Day class, and wish to upgrade to the full Premiere Pro Bootcamp. Take your Premiere Pro skills to the next level with this intermediate course. We’ll dive deeper into the app’s various editing features, and additional capabilities such as multi-cam editing, Green screen removal, adjusting the speed of footage, resizing videos, incorporating After Effects projects, and much more.
Learn user experience design by applying UX processes to real-world projects. Create prototypes and wireframes, conduct user testing, create user personas, and present your findings. Design hi-fidelity mockups in Sketch, Adobe XD, or Photoshop.
Learn to design the UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) of websites and apps. From user research, to prototyping/testing, to creating visual designs in Adobe XD, and more, you’ll learn how to create effective and attractive designs.
Design mobile & web interfaces, learn graphic design fundamentals, and create a portfolio. Our Visual Design Certificate includes classes in Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphic Design & Visual Design.
In this UX design class you will learn the fundamentals of engaging with the user, concept development and prototyping. You will also practice how to critically analyze and communicate your findings to the team and a real-world client. This intensive UX course prepares you to understand the basics of user experience practice through various methodologies and real-world projects.
Get a solid understanding of Sketch so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of symbols (reusable design components), build clickable prototypes using InVision as well as Sketch’s native prototyping tools, export graphics, learn about useful plugins that make working in Sketch better, and much more.
Learn to design websites for mobile and desktop using timeless principles such as color, layout, and typography, as well as visual conventions, standards, and trends. You will learn the process and principles for designing responsive websites through lectures and hands-on exercises.
Learn how to use Photoshop to create and optimize graphics for web and UI design. Create wireframes and turn them into finished designs that are optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. You’ll learn how to design on grids, extract image assets, create hi‑res 2x graphics, and so much more.
Get a solid understanding of Adobe XD so you create designs for different size screens, tap into the power of reusable design components, build clickable prototypes, add animations, export graphics, and much more.
Our design workshops are designed for those who need a quick introduction to a topic. You’ll emerge with a solid understanding of the basics and plenty of knowledge to propel you forward.
Get started with the fundamentals of Photoshop: retouch photos, improve contrast and color, remove unwanted elements from photos, save files for print/web, and more.
Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of InDesign: text, pictures and pages. You’ll soon be able to create page layouts, control typography, add photos, create/use colors, and more! If you want to learn InDesign in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe InDesign Bootcamp.
Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Illustrator: the Pen tool, shapes, and basic drawing. Learn to create and draw vector graphics. If you want to learn Illustrator in greater depth, check out our 18-hour Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp.
Get up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Sketch: learn to design websites, apps, etc. for different size screens, tap into the power and flexibility of symbols (reusable design components), export graphics, and more. If you want to learn Sketch in greater depth, check out our 12-hour Sketch Bootcamp.
This class will get you up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro: edit videos with audio, add B-roll, create lower third titles, and export a final video for use on social media or anywhere.
This After Effects training covers the basics of the user interface, the timeline, video, layer animation, easing in and out, fade-ins, and more. This one-day After Effects course will give you a strong working knowledge of After Effects’ capabilities for creating GIFs, animating logos, and importing layered files from Illustrator and Photoshop.
This UX class will provide an overview of the key concepts of user experience (UX) design. Class material will be a mix of lecture, discussion, industry examples, and classroom activities. You'll leave the class with a broad understanding of how UX designers work with other team members, fundamentals of the industry, and how designers move from research insights to design concepts.
Design the UX and UI of websites, apps, and more. You can do everything from design to prototype all in Adobe XD. In this class you’ll learn how to design on grids, turn your design into a clickable prootype, export image assets, and much more.
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InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, & graphic design fundamentals
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, PHP, WordPress, & Ruby on Rails.
After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Cinema 4D
User research, sketching, prototyping, & user interface design
Learn fundamental design principles and apply your knowledge using tools such as Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Sketch.
Design websites, build magazine layouts, create vector graphics, animate engaging content for the web, edit video. Pick up all of these skills in our introductory courses and comprehensive bootcamps in New York City. You’ll learn hands-on with real-world projects in our classes, available full-time on weekdays, or part-time on weeknights or Saturdays.
“Noble Desktop is far and away the most efficient way of gaining computer graphics skills. They give real-world exercises to work on, teach best practices, and inspire many an ‘aha!’ moment. Highly recommended.”
Joanne Hu
Since 1990 we have perfected the craft of teaching. If students get hung up on an issue, we tweak the class to make it better. We’re the longest running independent training center for code and design in NYC.
From our hands-on training style to world-class instructors and proprietary curriculum, we deliver a learning experience our alumni can be proud of.
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