Beginner Course
Visual Design + Branding
Our flexible, 8-week online course provides a design foundation in responsive web design, user interfaces and branding. It’s aimed towards those who want to improve their digital design skills, understand what makes designs effective and design with confidence.
In this course, you’ll learn visual design principles, the branding process, how to choose colors and pair typefaces, practical tips and ways to improve your UI design skills, how to design for responsive experiences across multiple device types and much, much more.
Our Visual Design + Branding course provides a unique, practical design foundation whether you’re totally new to design or just want to refresh and improve your digital design skills.
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What you'll get…
- A set of video-based lessons each week for 8 weeks – released every Monday – which you can watch in your own time and have lifetime access to
- In-depth interviews with top industry experts
- The very latest and greatest design and branding resources
- Homework throughout the course to test your knowledge and expand your learning
- Access to the worldwide SuperHi community on Slack and our super secret Facebook group
- 1:1 sessions via video chat or text chat with our expert instructors to get the most out of your course
- Continued help post-course, from what to design next to how to freelance questions
8
weeks of design and branding fun
3
in-depth, real-world projects
4
hours of videos each week, you decide when
4
1:1 sessions with our expert instructors
What you'll learn
Design principles + practical user interface tips to help you design better right away
An end-to-end branding process — how to design your own brand and create brand guidelines for handoff
How to design responsive experiences for desktop and mobile from scratch
How to create a design system and a user interface library of components
Best practices for handoff and how to keep design consistent across teams
How to present your work and talk through your design decisions with confidence
Who is the course for?
Anyone who wants to better understand the fundamentals of digital design, branding and improve their skills.
You can be brand new to design and want a solid understanding of how to see and think like a designer, and create effective designs from scratch, or you can be a current designer, developer or someone working with design that wants to improve your processes and design with confidence.
What do I need?
A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with the latest version of Chrome installed and a broadband internet connection.
Our course is not program-specific, but we will be teaching in Figma because it’s free and available for both Mac and Windows users.
Want a breakdown of what the course covers + what you’ll learn? Get the syllabus PDF.
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This date too soon?
Our courses start every Monday. You can pick a date now and can always change it later — absolutely no pressure!
Get this course in a bundle
Courses are better together! Get more bounce for your ounce with our recommended bundles.
Design + Code bundle
Be a fully-rounded digital designer/coder with this bundle.
The e-commerce starter kit
Design and build your own fully custom digital store, from scratch.
Creative Freelancer Pack
Looking to start as a creative freelancer? Get all the skills you need.
The Product Designer Pack
Trying to improve your design management skills? This pack is for you
In a team?
We’ve taught teams of students from large multinationals to small design agencies how to code. If you’re interested in a team discount, please reach out to [email protected].
Meet your instructors
Our non-nerdy instructors have decades of professional experience, spoken at international conferences and have won countless web design awards.
Milan Moffatt
Milan leads all things design at SuperHi, from branding to user experience! She previously worked at creative agencies in Brooklyn and with early-stage startups in Santiago, Chile.
Kristen Altomare-Ciallella
Kristen is our educational designer, making sure all our courses are as frictionless as possible. She previously worked for as a visual designer for Nike and Huge.
...and Wilson
Wilson is our artificially intelligent helper. Ask him anything. He doesn't have any social media profiles but one day he will run the company.
Keep learning with our other courses
Already taken a course and want to learn more? Check out all our other courses that we have to offer – different materials, same SuperHi style.
Why we teach online…
After teaching at General Assembly, I started a code school in London called Steer. We held 5-day courses where students would turn up to our classroom on a Monday morning and leave on a Friday evening. I would stand in front of the class teaching the same material, week in week out, and over time, I noticed so many of the tiny issues of running a classroom-based school.
It was strange that we were teaching digital skills but not using any of the innovations that the same technology gives us. When I left Steer to start SuperHi, I wanted to take the best parts of an in-person classroom and use the internet to make the experience even better.
SuperHi is a more affordable, accessible way to learn. You're not paying thousands of dollars extra because we rented a classroom in a prime city location. We teach you wherever you are — our students are in 46 countries and 15 time zones!
We call it ‘asynchronous learning’. You don’t need to be there at a certain time. Whether you’re a quicker or slower learner, learning is at your pace, not ours. You can ask any question without feeling embarrassed in front of a group, and there’s no need to quit your job to skill up.
Just like our students, the SuperHi team is distributed globally which means we hire the best teachers in the world. You’re not being taught by some guy who happens to be available to stand in front of a class at that time in your city.
Learning anything creative shouldn’t feel like you’re in a military bootcamp. We get much stronger outcomes than whenever I taught in a classroom previously, and our results speak for themselves. Our students have gone on to change careers, increase salaries, go freelance and receive top awards for digital design.
Learn the SuperHi way.