Interaction & UI/UX Design Certificate

Editing can be a persuasive storytelling tool. Using your own original footage, you'll gain basic editing skills—including importing, exporting, audio mixing, and color correction-to increase the emotional impact and user engagement of your videos.

Unlock your creative potential by harnessing the power of the creative process. You will generate ideas to solve physical and conceptual design problems. Learn from faculty across different disciplines and engage with your peers to create innovative solutions through collaborations.

Gain familiarity with the technical tools of the trade. You'll study the theory and function of industry-standard computer hardware and software and learn the digital design principles professionals use to produce visual communications and digital products.

Successful visual communication unites many diverse creative professions. You'll gain hands-on interdisciplinary ideation and creative problem-solving experience by working on projects that emphasize collaboration and audience engagement.

Take a deep dive into the skills behind industry-standard design and production: vector graphics and typography, color manipulation, finding workflow techniques, presentation and output methods, and more.

User-centered design is where it all starts. It's a process consisting of research, personas, user journeys, use cases, wire-framing, and more. You'll start with defining and empathizing with the user, then use design techniques to create visually appealing prototypes.

Whether it's movie titles, commercials, teaser videos, or sports scores, you're constantly experiencing motion graphics. You'll learn basic 2D animation—of type, symbols, shapes, and color—that opens the door to mastery of industry-leading motion software.

Get the skills to design beautiful, intuitive interactive interfaces and publications. Using great visual design principles, you'll learn how to compose compelling screen layouts, brand identities, evocative typographic treatments, and interactive prototypes with the industry's leading design tools.

HTML and CSS are the backbone of the web. As you develop your coding skills, you'll learn strategies in site architecture, navigation, file management, and more to create highly intuitive websites.

Your portfolio is everything. You'll take the first step into creating and presenting your own portfolio website and personal branding system. You'll revisit, redo, update, revise, and add to past work to create a portfolio that reflects the skills you've gained. (This course is cross-listed with ADV 341.)

Perfect your professional portfolio. You'll fine tune completed projects, create identity elements and leave-behinds, and hone your presentation and interview skills.

Designed for all majors interested in photography, students will be presented an inspired approach to using photography across mediums. Topics include proper exposure, lighting, composition, and optimizing photos for a digital workflow. A smartphone or digital camera is required for this course.