Digital Design
Foundations
Learn the basics of design in this free online video course from Visme.
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A leading visual communication platform empowering 34,300,000 users and top brands.
This Course is For You if...
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?
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Marketers
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Business Owners
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Social Media Managers
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Entrepreneurs
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Non-Designers
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Anyone with a need to design better
What will you learn?
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The art of balanced designs
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Hierarchy and other design principles
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Fonts, colors and shapes
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Visuals and data visualization
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Cohesiveness and consistency
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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
Target audience, purpose, inspiration and visual style.

Layout, structure & design principles
Visual balance, hierarchy, Gestalt principles and alignment.

Colors, typography,
shapes & icons
Color theory and psychology, font basics and font pairing, shape meanings and icon usage.

Visuals &
data
Photos, illustrations, textures, data visualization basics.

Photos, illustrations, textures, data visualization
Cohesiveness, consistency, minimalism and typography as a design element.
Get Certified!
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.

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