Design Courses

Darwin and Design

This course covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 19 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data, Economics, and Design of Policy: International Development

Examine global poverty through microeconomics, randomized evaluations, data analysis for social scientists, foundations of development policy, and political economy of economic development.

• MITx Online
• 48 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Data, Economics, and Design of Policy: Public Policy

Evaluate the effectiveness of policies with data and evidence, covering microeconomic theory, randomized evaluations, data analysis for social scientists, energy economics, and applied economics.

• MITx Online
• 48 weeks, 12-14 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Carve a wooden half-hull model, translate its shape into a lines plan with a naval architect, and compare the group's boat designs.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Interrogative Design Workshop

Design as parrhesia: examine how designers and public artists can practice fearless speaking in public space, through studio sessions with Vito Acconci, Pia Lindman and Judith Barry.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping

Conceive, design and fabricate a structural component under set requirements, iterating through prototyping and validation, then optimize the design with structural analysis software.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Nuclear Systems Design Project

Design a nuclear power plant in a group capstone project, integrating particle transport, heat transfer, safety, materials, and economic optimization with carbon sequestration and fossil fuel displacement.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Sustainable Building Design

Explore scientific principles and technologies for comfortable indoor environments that reduce building energy use and climate impacts.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Supply Chain Design

Learn to design and optimize supply chain networks while connecting operational decisions to financial metrics, supplier strategies, planning systems, and stakeholder communication.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems

MIT graduate course reading blockchain, smart contracts and encryption through economic theory—contract theory, mechanism design, monetary theory—to redesign financial infrastructure and its regulation.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Engineering Innovation and Design

A project-based engineering course built around a tested 10-step iterative design process, stakeholder research, and delivering compelling in-person presentations.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Learn traditional boat design by carving wooden half-hull models, translating forms into lines plans, and comparing vessel designs with naval architecture methods.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

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Typography & Design

12 ratings

Learn ten practical rules for controlling graphic design layouts through functional typography, hierarchy, flow, legibility, grouping, and contrast.

• YouTube
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to UI Design

5 ratings

Learn industry-standard user interface design processes, core design theories, and the psychology and human factors behind interfaces, through case studies of good and costly bad design.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

126 ratings at Coursera

Build predictive models in Python: fit regressions, clean and analyze features in Jupyter notebooks, classify with KNN, logistic regression and SVMs, and implement gradient descent.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course