Design Courses

EDUCBA

Analyze & Design Electrical Load Plans with AutoCAD

15 ratings at Coursera

Design office lighting layouts in AutoCAD from architectural drawings, then build staged load sheets covering sockets and special equipment to compute total kVA power demand.

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

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine Landscape & Environment Design

1 rating

Build a top-down survival game arena in Unreal Engine: sculpt and erode terrain, layer landscape materials, scatter foliage, and finish with lighting and post-processing.

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

Coursera

Canva Design Fundamentals

50 ratings at Coursera

Design a complete event program in Canva: navigate the dashboard, arrange text, images and graphics, and apply contrast, alignment, proximity and hierarchy across multi-page layouts.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Graphic design: pop your Linkedin with 3D effect using Canva

142 ratings at Coursera

Use Canva to design a customised LinkedIn cover image, creating a simple 3D effect through flat design and applying it to your profile.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

LearnKartS

Core Java - Design Patterns

34 ratings at Coursera

Apply creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns in Java—Singleton, Adapter, Facade, Iterator, State, Command, Chain of Responsibility—plus JEE patterns for maintainable enterprise applications.

• Coursera
• 5 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI-Powered Software and System Design

194 ratings at Coursera

Use LLMs to design software architectures from natural language requirements, build a database for an e-commerce platform, integrate APIs like DALL-E, and refactor with Gang of Four patterns.

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

CU Boulder;  Siemens

Product Design for the Circular Economy

21 ratings at Coursera

Apply circular economy principles to product design: Design for the Environment, Design for R strategies, recycling and Material Recovery Facilities, biological cycles, and material selection trade-offs.

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

Smart Learning Design

Design blended learning experiences with the Smart Learning Design 25 model: break teaching into learning events, then recombine them across classroom and digital environments.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

MOOC about MOOCs: design and develop high-quality MOOCs

Design and produce a MOOC: define intended learning outcomes and target audience, choose assessment strategies, produce video materials, and use AI to support development.

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

SUNY;  University at Buffalo

Digital Manufacturing & Design

3618 ratings at Coursera

Understand how manufacturing is shifting from paper-based to digital processes: digital design-production links, data analytics for quality and efficiency, connected supply chains, and new advanced-manufacturing careers.

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

Introduction to Digital Fabrication and Technical Design

6 ratings

Survey digital fabrication history and machine workflows: systems of measurement, hardware and material choices, 2D joinery built in Autodesk Slicer for Fusion 360, and prepping for vendors.

• Kadenze
• 40 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Figma

Create Your Design System in Figma

6 ratings

Learn to build and scale a Figma design system with reusable components, styles, variants, and shareable team libraries.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Robert Feranec

How to Design and Build Your Own Board - Simply and Easily

6 ratings

Learn to design a simple microcontroller board in EasyEDA, choosing components and wiring its power and LED schematic for later PCB layout.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Foundations and Advanced Practices in UX Design

17 ratings at Coursera

Learn user-centered design principles, conduct user research and usability testing, and design intuitive user interfaces and interactions for practical design challenges.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Computer Aided Design

14 ratings at Coursera

Learn CAD foundations and the 3D graphics pipeline — object description, modeling and view transformations, rendering — implement its stages in OpenGL, and model parts and assemblies in SolidWorks.

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