The modern workplace involves extensive collaboration, and Adobe XD can make this collaboration easier and more effective. Instructor Dani Beaumont shows you how. She begins by explaining how to work with cloud documents, including options you have for saving document versions and co-editing workflows. Dani explains how to clean up and organize your assets, as well as how to build and manage a design system, including how to publish, consume, and access CC libraries. She walks you through ways to share your work with stakeholders, including publishing and security options and advice on sharing your design work on the Behance network. Plus, Dani covers how to prepare for developer handoff, export content, and create design specs.

As a graphic designer, you have a knack for creative problem-solving, a keen understanding of color and layout, and the ability to collaborate with clients—skills that could easily translate to user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design. If you want to enrich your professional skill set with UX and UI design experience, then this course can help by acquainting you with the techniques and technology you'd need to be successful. Join instructor Paul Trani as he covers essential UI and UX design concepts and steps through how to create and share a prototype using Adobe XD CC. Throughout the course, Paul highlights UX design workflows and best practices within this innovative design and prototyping tool.

Keep up with the latest features of Adobe XD, the innovative tool for UI and UX design and prototyping. In this series, instructor Dani Beaumont helps you get acquainted with new capabilities by digging into a new Adobe XD CC feature each week. Tune in every Tuesday to master a new feature.

Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.

The Adobe XD third-party plug-in ecosystem is extremely rich and broad, with over 300 different plugins available to help you better design, prototype, and collaborate when building an interactive user experience. In fact, there are so many options that you might feel just a little overwhelmed. Where do you start? In this course, instructor Bart Van de Wiele’s takes you through his must-have list of Adobe XD plug-ins for UX designers in 2021. He sorted through the extensive library and picked his top choices for designing user experiences, presentations, and interactive prototypes, so you can skip that time-consuming process and get right to learning how to actually use the plug-ins.

Grow your Adobe XD skills with these pointers from Howard Pinsky, senior XD evangelist at Adobe. Howard goes over useful features and timesaving techniques that can help you make the most of this powerful design and prototyping tool. Each video provides suggestions for working more efficiently and effectively in XD, including how to best create hover interactions, animated UI elements, galleries of 3D cards for AR experiences, and more. Tune in each week for a new tip.

Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.

A mentor is more than just someone who tells you that you’ve done a good job. You need a mentor who can tell you what you did wrong and have those hard conversations with you, as it’s more important to improve than to be right. In this audio-only course, instructor Nick Hays offers practical advice on leaning into challenges and difficulties to elevate your performance and unlock your full potential. Nick begins by explaining how a good mentor can facilitate an important turning point in someone’s life. He discusses the importance of committing to growth, despite discomfort, and how you can grow by seeking what intimidates you. Nick covers distinguishing between good and bad fears and talks about breaking down difficult tasks into smaller, more attainable goals. He reminds you not to discount your accomplishments, then concludes with a section on thankfulness and how gratitude builds resilience.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Prioritizing accessibility doesn't mean you can't leverage the powerful tools the PDF format offers. The techniques outlined in this course can help you manage complex layouts and add advanced features like PDF forms, PDF/UA compliance, and complex tables, while keeping PDFs accessible and compliant. Instructor Chad Chelius shows how to add and adjust PDF tags to optimize the screen-reading experience, make scanned PDFs accessible, examine and repair tables, remediate existing files to meet PDF/UA standards, and add links and security with tools like Acrobat, Word, InDesign, Grackle, and pdfaPilot, addressing the accessibility issues that go beyond the everyday. Plus, learn how to use automatic features and shortcuts, such as Autotag and actions in Acrobat, to speed up your workflow.

Are you a .NET developer looking for advanced topics and scenarios? This course offers just what you’re looking for, with detailed training on building microservice-based applications using .NET and Azure. Instructor Rodrigo Díaz Concha gives you a refresher on microservices and introduces you to the microservices and technical components that this course shows you how to build. Rodrigo begins with building event-driven microservices, including creating, publishing, and consuming the integration event. Then he goes into the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern and shows you how to implement the first command and the viewer service. Rodrigo covers the Event Sourcing pattern and its relationship with microservices, then dives into how the API Gateway pattern allows applications to communicate indirectly to the microservices. He concludes with health checks you can perform in .NET and other cross-cutting concerns that you may need to address.

Managing a company’s financial records entails a lot more than keeping track of money coming in and going out. Put one revenue stream in the wrong column, and you could grossly misrepresent your company’s financial health. In this course, accounting professors Jim Stice and Kay Stice dive deep into the accounting strategies behind more complex, higher-level bookkeeping practices. They cover topics such as adjusting entries, strategies for dealing with bookkeeping mistakes, closing entries, and making auditing of books easier.

Are you an advanced Python user? Are you wondering what would even define you as an advanced user? In this Code Challenges course, Jonathan Fernandes presents a series of challenges that he considers knowledge an intermediate or advanced user should know, topics that are popular and regularly used in code and have developed a reasonable use case. Jonathan covers topics like decorators, itertools modules, error and data handling, and context managers. Each challenge is self-contained, with solutions that are one or two lines of code, so you can jump around the course and compare your answers to Jonathan’s solutions. If you’re looking for a unique and fun way to test your understanding of advanced Python concepts, check out these code challenges.

Facebook is a key advertising platform for businesses of all sizes. This course showcases advanced techniques to help marketers accomplish their advertising and engagement goals. Instructor Michael Taylor first shows how to efficiently create and manage large ad volumes as well as ad campaigns across different ad accounts and pages. You can also learn to use the Business Manager tool to allow multiple users with different permission levels manage ad campaigns. He introduces time-saving techniques for bulk uploading ads, using custom audiences, duplicating ads with different targeting and imagery, split testing ads, and adjusting ads for Instagram and other placements. Next, learn marketing attribution and optimization techniques, such as mix modeling, funnel event targeting, and advanced conversion tracking with the Facebook Ads Conversions API. Finally, discover how to automate your ads at scale using the Facebook Business API and let AI-based tools generate ads for you.

Google Tag Manager has upgraded to add a suite of powerful features that fine-tune your control and insights in Google Analytics. Instructor Michael Taylor teaches you about creating custom variables, advanced tagging techniques, advanced tag management techniques, modifying page contents, and server-side tagging. Michael shows you how to capture data you need for custom variables. He walks you through advanced tagging techniques like measuring how many users are reading each post and using the full Enhanced ECommerce implementation for Google Analytics. Michael shows you ways to modify your page contents with Google Tag Manager. He explores some naming conventions and templates that help track and standardize your projects, then explains how to make sure you are compliant with GDPR and CCPA cookie consent. Michael also covers the three major benefits of server-side tagging and shows you how to receive those benefits.

Building and operating Kubernetes clusters is a complex topic of increasing importance in today’s DevOps-driven world. Systems engineers, site reliability engineers, and those who work with IT infrastructure at a deep and programmatic level all need to have a next-level understanding of Kubernetes. In this course, instructor Matt Turner reviews its architecture, starting with an overview of the core components of a Kubernetes cluster and the mechanisms for keeping them available at scale. He reviews the etcd database and shows how to investigate the cluster at a low-level through its API. He then reviews the API request process, from authorization to resource persistence, and explores the controllers and reconciliation loops that drive Kubernetes. The closing chapter covers reconciliation in the dataplane, including managing cloud provider resources with the cloud-controller, and how DNS-based discovery of pod and service IPs works.

Note: This course also helps learners prepared for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Find more details on the program at https://www.cncf.io/certification/cka/.

Join instructor Matt Heinz as he shows you how to hit your business goals with practical strategies designed to elevate the impact, sophistication, and results from demand generation programs. First, Matt covers tactics for developing goals and objectives, including a funnel model, as well as risk factors and pivot points. He then goes over how to define your target audience and understand what steps your prospects go through to evaluate, justify, and confirm purchase decisions. Matt demonstrates the steps to develop a campaign, including how to drive precise messages and offers throughout your demand generation programs. Once you’ve developed a campaign, you must execute the plan and follow up. Matt outlines playbook elements that you can introduce to your sales organization to increase efficiency and consistency in executing campaign plans, and then steps through how to support greater lead conversion by your sales teams.

Power BI is rapidly becoming one of the most popular reporting and visualization tools and is a great way for non-technical users to build their own reports and data visualizations. However, Power BI comes with a rather limited set of standard visuals, and creating custom visuals can be a daunting process, one that requires JavaScript or TypeScript programmers. In this course, Emma Saunders shows programmers who are experienced at creating data visualizations on the web how to create custom visuals in Power BI. Emma starts with the basics of setting up your environment and installing the multitude of requisite files, then shows how to set up an account to access Power BI service. She explains the folder structure for the over 5,000 files you need for a single custom visual, before diving into the creation of custom visuals using single, categorical, and grouped data aggregation.

The Page Object Model is a popular design pattern for automating web applications. Test automators can be more effective if they have mastered multiples ways of creating page objects and understand their pros and cons. In this course, Alan Richardson shows how to model GUI applications as page objects in Selenium. Discover how to refactor code into abstractions and abstract the details of your infrastructure, dependencies, and even technology elements like buttons and input fields. Explore the different types of page objects, and discover how to abstract navigation and test data. Plus, find out how to model the execution of an application with domain-specific languages. Alan closes with tips on making abstraction design decisions.

Figuring out how to architect a new application is a big deal. Doing it the wrong way can lead to a huge headache later. Testing and refactoring can become nightmarish. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this course, instructor Terezija Semenski shows you powerful, easy-to-follow design techniques for Spring events that you can use to write clean, testable, maintainable code with flexible and loosely coupled architectural design. Terezija explains how to leverage Spring events by replacing traditional method calls, then describes a powerful set of Spring event features. She covers how to create and publish custom events and how to implement a new listener for events. Terezija concludes the course with discussions on asynchronous events, filter events, and transaction bound events.

In this course, Ami Levin continues his Advanced SQL series with a new installment focused on conquering relational division challenges. As Ami points out, you’ve probably encountered relational division before, even if you’re unfamiliar with the term. Ami therefore starts with a background of relational division, including how relational algebra and the Cartesian product fit in to the picture. He then dives into SQL and shows the challenging aspects of relational division and three different techniques to solve them, highlighting the pros and cons of each approach. Along the way, Amin challenges you to write your own queries before walking through the methodology he uses. By the end of this course, you will gain valuable insight into how SQL works, be able to identify relational division challenges, and know how to implement the best solutions.

Interpolation challenges are quite common, especially for time series and sequence analyses. In this course, data educator Ami Levin offers several techniques to solve these types of challenges seamlessly and efficiently. Ami explains what interpolation is and shows you how interpolation challenges and solutions work, using the database for Formula 1 race car telemetry. He goes over streamlining your solution with auxiliary data and explores the solution methodology for SQL challenges in general. Ami dives into definitions and challenges for proximal interpolations and linear interpolations, then concludes with a review of what you’ve learned.

Note: This course was created by Ami Levin. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Amplify your reach with Facebook advertising. Learn how to create and manage Facebook ads campaigns that grow your business and boost your brand. This course helps you get started in Facebook advertising—while avoiding some of the platform’s main pitfalls. Megan Adams is a Facebook advertising expert that will help you craft campaigns that make sense, starting with a strategy that clearly aligns with your business goals. She shows how to write your ads, plan your budget, and boost your posts, and leverage the most powerful Facebook tools, like Ads Manager. By the end, you’ll be armed with knowledge to use Facebook Ads to its greatest potential, creating campaigns that deliver engaging campaigns to the right audiences and drive business back to your brand.