Digital Design
Foundations

Learn the basics of design in this free online video course from Visme.

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Digital Design Foundations: A Non-Designer Friendly Course is for everyone who aspires to learn design foundations, even without any knowledge of design. All you need is a desire to learn and a digital device, be it a laptop, desktop or a tablet.

Who is this course for?

  • Marketers

  • Business Owners

  • Social Media Managers

  • Entrepreneurs

  • Non-Designers

  • Anyone with a need to design better

What will you learn?

  • The art of balanced designs

  • Hierarchy and other design principles

  • Fonts, colors and shapes

  • Visuals and data visualization

  • Cohesiveness and consistency

  • and more…

Here’s a summary of all the things
you’ll learn in the Digital Design Foundations course.

The full course has 11 lessons separated into 5 sections.
Pre-design Learning

Pre-design
Learning

Target audience, purpose, inspiration and visual style.

Layout, structure & design principles

Layout, structure & design principles

Visual balance, hierarchy, Gestalt principles and alignment.

Colors, typography, shapes & icons

Colors, typography,
shapes & icons

Color theory and psychology, font basics and font pairing, shape meanings and icon usage.

Visuals & data

Visuals &
data

Photos, illustrations, textures, data visualization basics.

Photos, illustrations, textures, data visualization

Photos, illustrations, textures, data visualization

Cohesiveness, consistency, minimalism and typography as a design element.

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After you watch all the lessons, take the quiz satisfactorily, you get a certificate which you can add to your LinkedIn profile, website or CV.
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What you need to know

Requirements

  • A computer, laptop or tablet
  • A free Visme subscription
  • Visme Mobile App (optional)
  • An eagerness to learn 

💪 Workload

  • 11 Videos
  • Supplemental material to read
  • Visme Mobile App (optional)
  • A quiz

🕒 Time to Complete

  • Videos: Less than an hour
  • Supplemental material: varies on how much you read
  • Quiz: 30 min. to 1 hour
  • In total: 1-2 hours

Improve your design skills and gain confidence to design better content!

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