AI Design Bootcamp

Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp

• Adjust color, brightness, and contrast to enhance photos with professional-quality edits.
• Use layers, masks, and blend modes to create seamless image composites.
• Retouch photos by removing unwanted elements and correcting imperfections.
• Master selections, cropping, and background removal for precise image editing.
• Prepare files for various formats, including web, video, and print production.
• Utilize smart filters, adjustment layers, and Camera Raw for non-destructive editing.

Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp

• Draw vector graphics using shape tools, the Pen tool, and advanced path editing techniques.
• Apply colors, gradients, and patterns to create visually compelling designs.
• Utilize Image Trace to convert sketches into digital artwork.
• Work with layers, masks, and blending techniques to build complex graphics.
• Create 3D text and realistic product mockups using Illustrator’s advanced tools.
• Export and optimize graphics for web, print, and digital applications.

Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

• Create layouts with text, images, and color while applying professional design techniques.
• Use paragraph and character styles to ensure consistent formatting throughout a document.
• Learn to apply text formatting such as kerning, tracking, hyphenation, bulleted lists, and more.
• Utilize parent pages, automatic text flow, and running heads for multi-page projects.
• Prepare/package files for print or export as PDF with the proper settings.

Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp

• Explore essential design concepts, including composition, typography, and color theory.
• Develop a creative workflow, from ideation and sketching to final digital execution.
• Create portfolio-worthy projects such as logos, book covers, event posters, and album artwork.
• Learn to use design hierarchy and grid systems to create visually engaging layouts.
• Incorporate industry-standard tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign into your design process.
• Refine your work through critiques and upload your final projects to Adobe Portfolio.

Figma Bootcamp

• Design UI/UX layouts optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop using grids and frames.
• Work with components and variants to create reusable design elements efficiently.
• Build interactive prototypes with clickable links, overlays, and smart animations.
• Use auto layout to streamline spacing, alignment, and responsive design workflows.
• Share and collaborate on designs in real time using Figma’s cloud-based features.
• Export assets for web, apps, and developers in multiple formats, including SVG and PNG.

Figma Advanced

• Explore Figma’s advanced prototyping features
• Learn how to use variables and variable modes
• Use conditionals to add advanced interactivity to prototypes
• Create light and dark modes using variable collections
• Use primitive and semantic layers when building a design system

UI Design Bootcamp

• Develop a strong foundation in UI design, including typography, color, and layout principles.
• Design engaging and user-friendly interfaces for websites and mobile applications.
• Work with Figma to create wireframes, prototypes, and interactive designs.
• Receive personalized feedback and expert guidance to refine your design skills.
• Build portfolio-ready projects to showcase your UI design expertise.
• Learn industry best practices and UI patterns to create visually effective digital products.

UX Design Foundations

• Understand what UX design is, how it differs from UI, and how UX designers work
• Learn the end-to-end UX design process from research to final deliverables
• Apply UX research methods including user interviews, observations, and heuristic evaluations
• Define key UXD terminology and create deliverables like personas, journey maps, and scenarios
• Sketch and iterate through the design process using wireframing and prototyping techniques
• Document and present your work professionally to communicate design decisions effectively

UX & UI Design Bootcamp

• Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, competitive analysis, and usability testing to better understand user needs
• Create personas, journey maps, user flows, and information architecture to organize insights and guide design decisions
• Design wireframes, responsive layouts, and polished UI screens for web and mobile interfaces
• Apply usability principles, accessibility standards, and common UI patterns to create clear, user-friendly experiences
• Build interactive prototypes and refine designs based on feedback, usability findings, and project goals
• Document your research, design process, and final solutions in a portfolio-ready UX case study

AI for Graphic Design

• Understand how AI can support graphic design workflows, including ideation, image generation, research, writing, and automation, while learning the strengths and limitations of AI tools.
• Use leading AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney to generate and refine images, create visuals from prompts, and explore creative directions.
• Leverage AI-powered features in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to remove distractions, expand and edit images, generate content, improve image quality, streamline repetitive tasks, accelerate production workflows, and more.
• Evaluate AI tools and workflows for commercial design projects, including topics such as copyright, data privacy, resolution limitations, and best practices for professional use.

AI Coding Bootcamp with Claude Code

• Use Claude Code confidently for real development tasks and multi-step coding workflows
• Prompt and steer AI effectively using context setting, Plan Mode, review, and recovery techniques
• Work with Git and GitHub for version control, branching, pull requests, and code review
• Understand modern web development fundamentals including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, frontend, and backend concepts
• Build full-stack applications with Next.js, databases, authentication, and external APIs
• Debug, test, secure, and deploy production-ready applications to the live web

AI Design Portfolio Development

• Plan and scope portfolio-ready design applications based on your creative and career goals, with instructor guidance on choosing three projects from seven options
• Build a custom portfolio website with project galleries, case studies, contact forms, asset uploads, hosting, and custom domains
• Create interactive design tools, including design systems with editable tokens, component previews, and exportable design variables
• Develop AI-powered creative tools such as brand studios, social ad generators, pitch deck designers, and brand identity starter kits
• Build motion and microinteraction tools with live previews, developer-ready handoff specs, and polished user interactions
• Integrate databases, authentication, APIs, file uploads, responsive design, accessibility, and production polish into live portfolio applications

Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Learn to retouch photos and design graphics
• Enhance images by adjusting color, brightness, and contrast
• Use selections to edit specific areas of an image
• Prepare images for digital, web, video, or print formats
• Simplify edits with adjustment layers
• Remove backgrounds using layer masks
• Sharpen and refine photos
• Apply visual effects with filters, shadows, blend modes, and more
• Getting Started 32m 11s
• Photo Retouching 14m 25s
• Cropping Photos 16m 39s
• Creating Graphics Combining Photos, Text, & Graphics 33m 34s
• Replacing Backgrounds 17m 9s
• Blend Modes and Opacity 12m 29s
• Color Correction Using Color Balance 14m 9s
• Color Correction Using Curves 28m 39s
• Preparing & Exporting Digital Photos for Print and Web 25m 39s
• Sharpening Photos 13m 42s
• The Liquify Filter & Intro to Smart Filters 10m 50s
• Layer Masking 17m 7s
• Masking Smart Filters 21m 29s
• Converting to Black & White & Lens Correction 18m 33s
• Placing Your Designs in Premade Mockups 9m 44s
• Adjustment Layers & Masks 18m 37s
• Retouching 17m 15s
• Changing Color With a Blending Mode 18m 29s
• Clipping Masks Filling Shapes with Images 8m 56s
• Using Adjustment Layers as Clipping Masks 13m 13s
• Camera Raw Fundamentals 20m 47s
• Camera Raw as a Filter 5m 1s
• Batch Actions & the Image Processor 12m 6s
• Photoshop for Design Adding a Title & Layer Styles 20m 48s
• Photoshop for Design Creating Digital Art in Photoshop 21m 51s
• Photoshop for Design Compositing into a Photo 9m 41s

Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Draw vector graphics using shape tools, the Pen tool, and advanced path editing techniques.
• Apply colors, gradients, and patterns to create visually compelling designs.
• Utilize Image Trace to convert sketches into digital artwork.
• Work with layers, masks, and blending techniques to build complex graphics.
• Create 3D text and realistic product mockups using Illustrator’s advanced tools.
• Export and optimize graphics for web, print, and digital applications.

Adobe InDesign Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Create layouts with text, images, and color while applying professional design techniques.
• Use paragraph and character styles to ensure consistent formatting throughout a document.
• Learn to apply text formatting such as kerning, tracking, hyphenation, bulleted lists, and more.
• Utilize parent pages, automatic text flow, and running heads for multi-page projects.
• Prepare/package files for print or export as PDF with the proper settings.

Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Explore essential design concepts, including composition, typography, and color theory
• Develop a creative workflow, from ideation and sketching to final digital execution
• Create portfolio-worthy projects such as logos, book covers, event posters, and album artwork
• Learn to use design hierarchy and grid systems to create visually engaging layouts
• Incorporate industry-standard tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign into your design process
• Refine your work through critiques and upload your final projects to Adobe Portfolio

Figma Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Design UI/UX layouts optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop using grids and frames
• Work with components and variants to create reusable design elements efficiently
• Build interactive prototypes with clickable links, overlays, and smart animations
• Use auto layout to streamline spacing, alignment, and responsive design workflows
• Share and collaborate on designs in real time using Figma’s cloud-based features
• Export assets for web, apps, and developers in multiple formats, including SVG and PNG

Figma Advanced (Self-Paced)

• Explore Figma’s advanced prototyping features
• Learn how to use variables and variable modes
• Use conditionals to add advanced interactivity to prototypes
• Create light and dark modes using variable collections
• Use primitive and semantic layers when building a design system

UI Design Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Develop a strong foundation in UI design, including typography, color, and layout principles
• Design engaging and user-friendly interfaces for websites and mobile applications
• Work with Figma to create wireframes, prototypes, and interactive designs
• Receive personalized feedback and expert guidance to refine your design skills
• Build portfolio-ready projects to showcase your UI design expertise
• Learn industry best practices and UI patterns to create visually effective digital products

UX Design Foundations (Self-Paced)

• What user experience design actually is
• How UX Designers work
• The overall UX design process
• UX research methods, including user interviews, observations, heuristics, and more
• UXD terminology and deliverables, such as personas, journey maps, scenarios, and more
• Sketching and the iterative design process
• How to document and present your work

UX & UI Design Bootcamp (Self-Paced)

• Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, competitive analysis, and usability testing to better understand user needs
• Create personas, journey maps, user flows, and information architecture to organize insights and guide design decisions
• Design wireframes, responsive layouts, and polished UI screens for web and mobile interfaces
• Apply usability principles, accessibility standards, and common UI patterns to create clear, user-friendly experiences
• Build interactive prototypes and refine designs based on feedback, usability findings, and project goals
• Document your research, design process, and final solutions in a portfolio-ready UX case study

AI for Graphic Design (Self-Paced)

• Generate vector illustrations, photo edits, and layouts using AI tools in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
• Create original visuals through prompt-based image generation with Midjourney, Leonardo AI, and DALL·E 3
• Enhance and restore images with AI-powered sharpening, upscaling, and de-noising techniques
• Use ChatGPT and Notion AI to develop creative briefs, brand names, and design directions
• Build moodboards, style guides, and concept sets with free and paid AI design tools
• Assemble a complete brand identity using multiple AI platforms in a simulated design workflow

AI Coding Bootcamp with Claude Code (Self-Paced)

• Use Claude Code as a practical coding assistant for planning, editing, debugging, and shipping apps
• Build confidence with Git, GitHub, and collaborative development workflows
• Understand the structure of modern web apps across frontend, backend, APIs, and deployment
• Create full-stack projects with Next.js, Supabase, authentication, and third-party APIs
• Improve app quality with responsive design, accessibility, testing, and security practices
• Deploy a finished application with environment variables, a custom domain, and launch-ready polish

AI Design Portfolio Development (Self-Paced)

• Plan and scope portfolio-ready design applications based on your creative and career goals, with instructor guidance on choosing three projects from seven options
• Build a custom portfolio website with project galleries, case studies, contact forms, asset uploads, hosting, and custom domains
• Create interactive design tools, including design systems with editable tokens, component previews, and exportable design variables
• Develop AI-powered creative tools such as brand studios, social ad generators, pitch deck designers, and brand identity starter kits
• Build motion and microinteraction tools with live previews, developer-ready handoff specs, and polished user interactions
• Integrate databases, authentication, APIs, file uploads, responsive design, accessibility, and production polish into live portfolio applications