Design Workshops

HOW U’s design workshops provide you with the ongoing education you need to stay vital in today’s job market. As attentions shift online, designers are expected to keep up. The landscape has changed pretty dramatically even in the past five years. Let HOW U be your partner for that web design training you might not have gotten in design school.

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Create a Killer Website Using Adobe Muse

Ever wanted to build a site, but cringed at the thought of writing code? Adobe Muse is about to make your life a lot easier, and more fun. Created for designers by designers, Muse allows you to visually create and publish websites that meet the latest web standards, both for desktop and mobile devices. In this four-week course, Brian Wood, author of the Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book, will guide you through how to create and publish a site using Adobe Muse that is optimized for desktop and devices, including phones and tablets. You’ll also learn how to incorporate some of the latest web trends in design, including: parallax scrolling, JQuery slideshows, Google maps, social media, video, contact forms, and much more. When you are finished with this course, you’ll know the ins and outs of Adobe Muse and be ready to tackle cool, cutting edge, interactive web projects in Adobe Muse! Learn More →

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Beverage Packaging Design Bootcamp

Would you like to delight customers thirsty for good design? Consumer packaged goods expert Jennifer Tausch shares her beverage category-specific experience and guides you in identifying consumers and opportunities in the marketplace in this intensive class for designers with package design experience. Over the course of two weeks, you’ll follow the steps used by major marketing firms to redesign packaging for an existing product in the area of tea, energy drinks or X. At the end of two weeks, you’ll have a full design case study in the category of tea packaging design, energy drink packaging design or X packaging design. Learn More →

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Adobe Dreamweaver for Intermediate Users

For those of us out there that have gotten their feet wet in Adobe Dreamweaver and are looking to take it further, this course is for you. It always happens, it seems. You start building websites, focusing on the basics, then you want to catapult your skills so that you can add the cool stuff you see out there on the web today to your site. The focus on this course is to do just that—build on the knowledge gained in the Introduction to Dreamweaver course, focusing on hot topics today like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and more. In this course, you will explore features like working with a lot more CSS styling and Code Inspector, inserting tables for data, adding video content to your pages, HTML5 tags, inserting widgets like a slideshow, learning more about code view, responsive design using Fluid Grid Layouts (CS6 only), and much more. Learn More →

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Introduction to Package Design

Ever dreamed of designing consumer packaged goods? The key to great package design is using strategy to capture, serve and delight the product’s target market. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll go through the steps used by major marketing companies in project creation to redesign packaging for an existing product. At the end of the four weeks, you’ll have a full case study to include in your portfolio. Learn More →

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An Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver

This course will give you the tools necessary to start building your own website using Adobe Dreamweaver, the industry standard for website creation. You will learn from the ground up the right way to create a web page, including setting up a web page layout, adding and styling text and images, working with links, and testing and uploading your site. You’ll get an overview of the “what” and “why” of building a website as we jump into the “how” by using Adobe Dreamweaver. Learn More →

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Basic Typography Bootcamp

Typography is much more than just putting type on a page. It is choosing the right font, learning how to create hierarchy within information, making the type legible and readable, directing the typography to suit the appropriate audience and knowing that you have the power to create awesome design. In this one-week, intensive crash course, typography expert Denise Bosler will show you how to harness the power of typography to tackle any design situation. You’ll begin with the history and basics of typography and letterforms, then move into step-by-step lessons where you’ll design a real-world poster project. You’ll get one-on-one feedback during this week-long project that’ll prepare you for your design future! Learn More →

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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Advanced Users

Want to add extra functionality and a real wow factor to your apps? This course will help you punch up your Adobe Digital Publishing Suite applications by examining the interactivity in existing apps from in the Apple Store. We’ll break down how they did it right, and how you can use it in your folio content. The course also includes an app critique, so provide an app you’ve created, and Adobe expert Brian Wood will examine it, offer insight and share best practices. Learn More →

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Building Responsive Websites with WordPress

In this course you’ll learn how to manage and maintain a responsive WordPress website. Jesse Friedman will teach you about responsive web design best practices, technology and how to design dynamic and responsive WordPress sites using pre-made themes. You’ll also learn how to implement tools and strategies that will give you and your clients greater control over content. Jesse Friedman has specific examples to show you how to maintain responsive WordPress themes long after they are deployed and also dive into how he used these tools and strategies to create dynamic, real-world web environments that respond to the user’s device and landscape. You’ll walk away from this online course with actionable tools you can use immediately! Learn More →

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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Intermediate Users

For those of us who are already creating apps using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), but want more, this course is for you. From adding HTML articles and smooth scrolling content, to more advanced interactivity like web content, panoramas, web fonts, how to show/hide content, animation, and more. Join instructor Brian Wood as he takes you through some of the more awesome interactive features that you see in existing apps that make you say, “How’d they do that?” This course builds on An Introduction to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, but that course is not required if you already have a basic understanding of DPS. Learn More →