Get started with Adobe InDesign over your lunch break. In this short introductory course, instructor Kladi Vergine covers the bare basics of how to use InDesign. Kladi shows you how to create and set up a new document. She covers setting up and saving document presets. She explores how to use Master Pages to quickly insert repeating content. Kladi discusses how to create, name, arrange, and lock Layers. She walks you through how to use Adobe Color Themes and how to set up multiple-grids layouts. She demonstrates how to import text and images, then shows how to create graphic frames and place your images in them. Kladi steps you through using Share for Review and the new Locate Color workspace. She covers how to export your files for print or online publication, as well as how to set up an interactive PDF with hyperlinks and interactive buttons. Kladi concludes by teaching you how to preview and test any interactive elements directly in InDesign.

Learn how Adobe InCopy and InDesign can work together, enabling editors and designers collaborate on publications, with no additional hardware, software, or expensive publication management systems. Discover how to set up for the workflow, how to address cross-platform Mac and Windows issues when working in a mixed environment, how to work with remote writers and designers, and how to integrate InCopy with Microsoft Word.

If you’re a manager or boss, why does influence matter? Can’t you just tell people what to do? That worked in the old paradigm, but the days of blind employee obedience are over. This audio-only course is a leadership guide by Allan R. Cohen and David L. Bradford and offers a classic, necessary set of prescriptions for anyone working in a flat, team-based organization. It’s a guide that will prove useful to almost everybody employed at a contemporary organization. The waning of the old hierarchical organization, with its clear lines of authority and control-command management styles, puts a greater emphasis on your individual ability to achieve your goals by enlisting support from people who, often, have no obligation to provide it. If you’re looking to garner influence in the modern workplace, check out this clear, jargon-free outline of the basic principles you need to know to influence others, even if you lack sufficient authority.

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Learn to create new worlds inside InfraWorks 360, the exciting new design and engineering program that gives your projects 3D real-world context. Eric Chappell gets you up to speed with all the essential features of InfraWorks 360 while you follow along creating a full-featured residential community in Southern California. He shows how to import model and terrain data from other programs and add style and details (such as trees, water, sky, roads, and buildings) to your world. He also helps you analyze, visualize, and share your design with colleagues and clients around the globe.

Plus, get an introduction to three advanced toolsets in InfraWorks 360: modeling road design, bridge design, and drainage design.

As a civil engineer or transportation planner, you might need to use InfraWorks 2021 to model a landscape, building, or road as part of a larger design project. In this course, instructor Lynda Sharkey walks you through a series of tutorials that show you how to import, work with, and customize a variety of designs. Lynda begins with how you can prepare a model so that you can export it from InfraWorks and import it into Twinmotion for refinement. She shows you how to clean up a scene graph and set localization preferences. Lynda describes how to add and sculpt terrain, make changes to ponds, and work with different ground materials and vegetation. She goes over how to work with buildings, including glass doors and lights, then goes into road materials and decals you may need to model roads accurately. Lynda covers how to add city furniture, parking barriers, and vehicle paths, then concludes with custom path options that you can add.

InfraWorks 2021 has implemented enhanced capabilities that you can use to build parametric tunnel components, bridge components, and street signs. Often, a project calls for specific parts that don’t ship with the standard components available in InfraWorks. However, you can create your own, using InfraWorks and Inventor. In this course, instructor Lynda Sharkey shows you how. Lynda begins by explaining parametric content, then steps through how to use InfraWorks and Inventor to export, modify, and use a parametric tunnel component. She discusses creating, modifying, and using a parametric bridge component, again with InfraWorks and Inventor. Lynda covers some gotchas that may occur when you are creating parametric content, so that you can avoid problems and frustrations. In conclusion, she walks you through how to set up, model, modify, and use parametric street sign components.

As a sales manager, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by managing so many different personalities? This course helps you identify the best and most effective ways to manage the different personality types on your team. In this course, experienced inside sales leader Josiane Feigon shows you how to set a higher standard for performance and coach from the inside out as a manager. Josiane goes over the four zones that determine how people listen and learn. She explains skills ranking criteria and how to raise the bar with your team. Then Josiane dives into coaching strategies that help you redirect challenging personalities on your team. For example, how would you manage a sales rep with call resistance, a rep who talks big but falls short of the mark, one who’s a great reactive “fixer” but never has time for proactive sales activities, and so on? This fun course covers many of the personalities you’re likely to encounter and how to bring them to their best.

Get insights from the largest study on working from home in this course adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job. Host Pete Mockaitis interviews Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom, the author of a study on the massive work-from-home experiment conducted by the Chinese company Ctrip. Nicholas delves into his findings, discussing the ways that remote work increased productivity and retention, as well as how it might stifle career growth. He also shares insights on the best days to work from home, how to set up your workspace to maximize productivity, and how to fight isolation by taking time to check in with your team.

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.

Disconnected marketing communications confuse customers and make it hard to know what a brand stands for and why you should buy it. On the other hand, an integrated marketing communication strategy ensures consistent, relevant messages across touch points to differentiate from competition and attract and retain customers. In this course, instructor Dina Shapiro covers how to identify and overcome barriers to integration; how to conduct a SWOT analysis to differentiate from competitors; how to use brand storytelling to integrate your marketing strategy; and how you can leverage customer insights to integrate across paid-owned-earned touch points, and measure and optimize. Join Dina as she shares examples and the tools you need to write an integrated marketing communication strategy that will help you engage customers, build your brand, and improve internal team collaboration.

DevOps combines people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives within the shortest possible time. Integrating Azure DevOps and GitHub provides more features for an organization to track the progress of a project, comply with industry standards, and manage code distribution and deployment. In this course, Prince Mokut explores how agile teams can integrate their GitHub repositories with Azure DevOps to leverage services like Azure Boards for project management and Azure Pipelines for continuous integration and delivery of your software. Prince starts by reviewing high-level functions of Azure DevOps and services, then covers how to customize dashboards, secure pipelines, and integrate tools from the Azure DevOps marketplace. After this course, you’ll have knowledge to help your team take advantage of this integration and seamlessly manage large software projects in your organization.

Online shopping may have only started in the mid-1990s, but that’s an eternity in internet time, and the ways goods and services are sold online is constantly changing. In this course, interaction designer Chris Nodder shares lessons he’s learned from designing ecommerce sites, along with the findings of numerous research studies. Whether you’re creating your first online store or responsible for a major retail site, Chris provides helpful guidelines for every part of an ecommerce site, from the homepage, to product pages, to checkout. Chris also covers user behavior when shopping online, multi-device branding and experience considerations, and the importance of designing your site so users can research before buying and seek support after the sale. He finishes the course by covering how to form a solid team to support your brand and customer experience, which is key to ensuring you’ve developed solutions that work for everyone in your company and for your customers.

When telling a story with data, you need the right types of visuals to convey meaning. In this course, instructor Diane Cronenwett covers techniques and best practices on applying design principles to dashboards and data visualizations. Diane shows you how to determine your user's goals, so that you can design effective dashboards. Diane walks you through several chart options, then dives into the role of color in designing an effective dashboard. She explains layout, hierarchy, dashboard interactivity, and the importance of creating a clear design for your tabular data. Diane concludes by showing you how to bring together dashboard conceptualization, layout considerations, visual design considerations, and dashboard interactivity.

UX designers use a variety of methods to communicate the user experience. In this course, Diane Cronenwett, a specialist in solving complex design problems, offers an overview of the deliverables expected from a UX designer, including heuristic reviews, usability reports, information architecture, flow diagrams, wireframes, and interaction documents. For each type of deliverable, Diane offers useful tips and techniques for delivering it. She explains standards of usability and shows you some important considerations in making sure you deliver what a particular deliverable’s target audience actually needs.

Are you a producer, musician, recordist, songwriter, or creator using Ableton Live? Would you like the scoop on Ableton Live 11? In this course, instructor Rick Schmunk brings current Ableton Live users up to speed with all of the significant changes in the 11th release of Ableton Live. Rick gives an extensive overview of program updates like rack macros, clip and scene follow actions, and MIDI editing and probability. He goes into MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE), then covers updates to recording and editing. Rick concludes with new and updated plug-ins, like spectral resonator, hybrid reverb, M4L Pitch Loop 89, and more.

Got a brilliant idea for an iOS app? This course can help you take that concept from the drawing board to the finish line in the span of an afternoon. Join instructor Todd Perkins as he covers the code, tools, and practices needed to build apps with iOS 14. Todd steps through how to install and work with Xcode—an integrated development environment (IDE) used to develop Apple applications—and use a template to create an Xcode project. He goes over the fundamentals of working with SwiftUI, a UI tool kit that allows you to build user interfaces for your mobile app. Plus, he shares how to add the finishing touches to your project, including how to create your own app icon. Whether you're new to iOS or programming in general, this course can help you bring your very first iOS app to life.

In this introductory course, learn how to create your very first WinForms or WPF application on .NET Core. First, instructor Olia Gavrysh discusses the difference between .NET Framework and .NET Core for desktop applications. Olia goes over how to create your first WinForms application targeting .NET Core 3 and explores the base components of the WinForms application. Olia also walks you through how to create your first WPF application targeting .NET Core 3 and explains the base components of the WPF application.

This course was created by Microsoft.NET. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Instructor Cam Soper introduces Entity Framework (EF) Core. EF Core is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that simplifies working with relational databases using strongly typed .NET objects. Cam shows you how to reverse engineer an existing database for use with EF Core. He explains that ASP.NET and EF Core are a perfect match to accelerate your web app development. He demonstrates how to use SQLite and Azure Cosmos database providers with EF Core. Cam concludes by exploring several ways you can optimize your EF Core code.

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When it comes to Photoshop, 3D doesn't require a special pair of glasses, NURBS curves, or subdivision surfaces. In fact, Deke shows how, using the Photoshop skills you have now, you can quickly create 3D objects that look like the real thing, complete with volume, shading, and perspective. This introduction guides you through 3D in Photoshop in the shortest time possible. Deke shows you how to model forms, wrap them with color and surface textures, hang lights in your scene, and add cameras—the windows into your 3D world. Plus, learn how to create 3D type and extrude path outlines so they have the appearance of depth. Get started now on a series of eye-popping 3D projects that will help you get to know Photoshop in a whole new way.

New to Photoshop? Check out Deke's companion courses, Introducing Photoshop: Design and Introducing Photoshop: Photography.

Although learning Adobe Photoshop from square one can seem daunting, this course gives you exactly the knowledge you need to get started creating practical everyday graphic designs with no prior Photoshop knowledge required. Acclaimed Photoshop instructor Deke McClelland quickly introduces you to the core Photoshop features you'll need to create your first Photoshop design projects, focusing only on those features designers use most often.

Are you wanting to get started with Rhino, but aren’t sure where to begin? In this course, instructor Dave Schultze gives you a quick tour of the basic essentials to start using this powerful software. Dave shows you around the Rhino user interface, including how to configure and customize it. He explains terms and strategies that you will need to use, including curve types and surface types. Dave walks you through some viewport features and how to navigate the viewports by panning, zooming, and rotating. He covers viewing models with shading modes, then concludes with an explanation of the help system in Rhino.