Software Design Courses

Edureka

Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) Fundamentals

Learn to design and execute test cases, log and triage defects through the bug lifecycle, and debug a sample application using structured techniques.

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

Packt

Spring System Design in Practice

Design and build a Spring microservice system: turn requirements into domains and REST APIs, persist with Spring Data, secure with OAuth 2.0, and add Kafka events and Resilience4j.

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

Design Surface Patterns From Scratch (Self-Paced)

Turn your sketches and doodles into vibrant digital artwork through Illustrator.

• CourseHorse
• Self-Paced
• $24.00

Meta

Principles of UX/UI Design

1105 ratings at Coursera

Learn the UX/UI process end to end: research users, build personas, evaluate interfaces for usability, and turn wireframes into interactive Figma prototypes.

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

Design-Led Strategy: Design thinking for business strategy and entrepreneurship

1323 ratings at Coursera

Learn design-led strategy by conducting primary market research, crafting problem definition statements, prototyping minimum viable products, and examining innovation case studies at UBank and Swiss Re.

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

Design Prompts for Everyday Work Tasks

1265 ratings at Coursera

Design prompts that draft and adapt emails for different audiences, spark brainstorming, build tables and trackers, turn meeting notes into action items, and summarize long documents.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Create and Design Digital Products using Canva

1373 ratings at Coursera

Design sellable digital product templates in the free version of Canva, applying color schemes, images, and other design elements for marketplace-ready results.

• Coursera
• 2 hours 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Assessment Design with AI

14 ratings at edX

Learn how to adjust your assessments to thrive—not just survive—in a world of pervasive conversational AI like ChatGPT.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Otis College of Art and Design

Fashion Style Icons and Design History

5 ratings

Trace 500 years of fashion icons, from Renaissance opulence to Chanel, 80s excess and 90s grunge, then sketch an original design rooted in historical garment elements.

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

Engineering Mindset

LED Circuit Design - How to Design LED Circuits

5 ratings

Work out resistor values and power ratings for LED circuits, including parallel layouts and how long a battery can run them.

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

Software Testing Simple (Software Quality Assurance QA)

5 ratings

Easiest practical Testing course on the market that will explain you what is QA and testing and what QAs are doing!

• Udemy
• 3 hours 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Open Source Software Development Methods

1543 ratings at Coursera

Learn to contribute productively to open source projects: collaboration best practices, encouraging diversity, choosing licensing models, continuous integration, and hosting projects on GitHub.

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

Coursera

Use Canva to Design Digital Course Collateral

1687 ratings at Coursera

Design digital course collateral in the free version of Canva: a course promo graphic, a fillable PDF, a worksheet, and a course certificate.

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

Adobe

Design Fundamentals with AI

1806 ratings at Coursera

Master visual design principles — composition, color theory, typography, accessibility — and produce graphics, logos, templates and brand kits in Adobe Express while managing client workflows.

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

Adobe

Design Fundamentals with AI

1806 ratings at Coursera

Learn design fundamentals — typography, color theory, layout, composition — and build social posts, logos and brand kits in Adobe Express with Firefly generative AI.

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