Software Design Courses

Mobile, Social, and Fashion - Three Stories from Data-Driven Design

1 review

How to leverage data to build better design tools and scaffold the design process? How can one understand how to use designs to leverage preferred outcomes?

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Design Thinking - Method, Not Magic, Bill Burnnett

1 review

Explore design thinking as a structured method for innovation, overcoming individual and cultural barriers, and driving large-scale transformation in organizations.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Webinar - Apply Design Thinking in Your Work

1 review

Learn to apply design thinking principles in your work, from empathy mapping to effective brainstorming techniques, to drive innovation and solve complex problems creatively.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Design Your Life - Part II - Prototypes for Personal Success

1 review

Explore innovative approaches to work-life balance through action-oriented prototyping. Learn to articulate your identity, beliefs, and actions to create a coherent life path aligned with your values.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design Your Life - Part I - Reframe Your Passion

1 review

Apply design thinking to career choices and explore why turning passion into profession may not be the best approach. Learn new strategies for vocational wayfinding and life planning.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Frameworks for Design Thinking - Stanford Innovation Masters Series

1 review

Watch this video to learn problem-solving tools and frameworks pioneered by the Design Group at Stanford and innovative ways for you to overcome the challenges you face and gain a competitive advantage you need.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

22 reviews

Explore fundamental principles of graphic design through hands-on exercises in imagemaking, typography, composition, color, and shape. Develop practical skills for visual communication and creative expression.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

7 reviews

This is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Sustainable Building Design

1 review

Learn and explore key scientific principles, technologies, and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments while reducing energy use and associated climate change effects.

• edX
• 13 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Ergonomics in Design

15 reviews

The course is designed to provide a basic understanding of ergonomics in design through the introduction of human anatomy, anthropometry, and modeling techniques with the aim of improving safety, productivity, comfort and health of people.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 5-6 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

How Software Ate Finance

167 ratings at Coursera

Software is eating the world, with radical consequences for financial services. This course gives you a foundation for understanding the future of financial services, and provides guidance for creating fintech businesses in the 2020s and beyond.

• Coursera
• 16 hours 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Stanford Seminar - Developing Design Spaces for Visualization - Tamara Munzner

Explore visualization design spaces, their creation, assessment, and application in data representation. Insights on chart combinations, data wrangling, and task abstraction for effective visual communication.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Neural Networks on Chip Design from the User Perspective

We will briefly review our past effort on Deep learning Processing Unit (DPU) design on FPGA in Tsinghua and Deephi, and then talk about some features, i.e. interrupt and virtualization, we are trying to introduce into the accelerators from the user's pe…

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - What Comes After Design Thinking?

Explore the evolution and impact of design thinking, its benefits, and the emergence of design leadership as a transformative approach in problem-solving and innovation.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Software-Centric Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things

Explore software-centric visible light communication for IoT, covering protocols, system design, and practical implementation using LED light bulbs for data transmission and localization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course