Analytics and AI are powerful tools that have real-word outcomes. Learn how to the practical, ethical, and legal frameworks to be an effective analytics professional.

Learn how to rethink and evolve your business model to ensure that it remains vital in an unpredictable, fast-changing market.

Learn how to fairly evaluate business investment decisions and minimize the financial risks for your organization.

Get tips for finding your dream career, getting your college paid for (without loans!), and looking at higher education with an investor's mindset.

Evan Cheng, character designer for Sesame Workshop, explains how a daily drawing practice and an alter ego helped him evolve his artwork and his career.

Turn your passion for event planning into a career. Learn the techniques professional event planners use to select venues, plan budgets, manage the schedule, and more.

Learn how to leverage Evernote, a productivity app, to organize class notes, find assignment info, share notes, and share task lists. Explore the different Evernote versions.

Learn how to decode the statistics that pop up on a daily basis—from political polls to football scores. Eddie Davila explores a different real-world topic each week.

Designer Ivan Poupyrev wants to integrate technology into everyday objects to make them more useful and fun -- like a jacket, you can use to answer phone calls or a houseplant you can play like a keyboard. In a talk and tech demo, he lays out his vision for a physical world that's more deeply connected to the internet and shows how, with a little collaboration, we can get there. Unveiled in this talk: Poupyrev announces that his newest device, Jacquard, is now publicly available for all designers to use.

Learn how everything as a service (XaaS) is transforming and enabling businesses to compete in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Self-image is a powerful driving force for consumers. The desire to be seen and admired is, in part, what makes influencers with aspirational lifestyles effective marketing tools and compels people to keep up with the latest trends. In this installment of the Evil by Design series, learn how to use this knowledge to your advantage. Instructor Chris Nodder discusses the impact of envy and differences in status, why cognitive dissonance and managing the gap between truth and fiction can be a challenge for designers, and how people can be unconsciously ignorant of their own ignorance (and how this impacts the language of persuasive design). Chris also digs into the grey areas of this design strategy, helping you discern how far you should take these dark patterns.

This course teaches how to harness emotional responses in design and use dark patterns to lead people down your preferred path.

Have you ever watched a movie you’d never heard of or had any previous interest in, simply because it was the highest grossing movie of the year, or because it won a bunch of awards? These persuasive effects are based on credibility, namely social proof (many people saw the movie) and authority (critics loved it). As people are more likely to trust a source they find credible, creating credibility and trust in your design, brand, or campaign is an essential part of success. In this course, Chris Nodder shows how you can build your credibility and influence users’ behavior through targeted, persuasive design efforts, as well as the use of dark patterns. He covers the different ways you can create credibility—social proof, reciprocation, authority, smart defaults—as well as how to use your newfound credibility and the ethical considerations in doing so.

Design is communication. But a thoughtfully designed UI can do more than just communicate a user's options. It can also persuade users, nudging them down whatever path the designer had in mind. And this persuasive power can be used for both good and nefarious purposes. In this course, the first installment in the series based on his book Evil by Design, Chris Nodder provides an overview of persuasive design and its ethical implications, focusing on how to positively integrate persuasive design into products. Chris delves into the science of human behavior and how it applies to user experience and design. He explores how design can appeal to direct emotions and cause very targeted and predictable responses from people. Plus, he digs into the different types of dark patterns you may encounter and leverage in your projects, as well as how far you can take those designs while still remaining a force for good. Whether you're a software developer looking to design persuasive interfaces—or a consumer curious about how persuasive techniques work—this course can serve to enlighten and inform.

The Dynamics 365 Fundamentals exam measures your ability to understand the essentials of Microsoft Dynamics 365. In this course, instructor Sharon Bennett covers the essentials of Dynamic 365 services and helps exam takers understand how to successfully prep for the exam. After a quick overview, Sharon delves into marketing capabilities and apps, as well as the sales lifecycle and related sales apps, within Dynamics 365. She explains customer service and field service, then goes into project operations. Sharon also discusses shared features, such as common customer engagement features, reporting tools, and options to integrate with other Microsoft applications. For each topic she covers, Sharon offers detailed explanations and helps you understand what you need to know in order to pass the Dynamics 365 Fundamentals exam with flying colors.

The Dynamics 365 Fundamentals exam measures your understanding of the essentials of Microsoft Dynamics 365, specifically artificial intelligence, mixed reality, the Power Platform, cloud concepts, cloud security, role-based security in Dynamics 365, Common Data Service, data management framework, Dynamics 365 reporting, Dynamics 365 integrations, and cloud deployment. In this course, instructor Sharon Bennett covers the main points of these services and helps exam takers understand how to successfully prep for the MB-920: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP) exam. After explaining how Dynamics 365 supports supply chain management, Sharon highlights the application’s finance features and commerce capabilities. She goes over Dynamics 365 features that simplify and support human resources, as well as features that you can leverage within project operations. Sharon concludes with some useful reporting capabilities and integration options.

The Open Group Architecture Framework, or TOGAF, is a framework and methodology for developing enterprise-level software. TOGAF provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing enterprise IT architecture. This high-level, systematic approach is designed to reduce error, maintain timelines, keep the project on budget and align IT with business units. If you’re looking to get certified in TOGAF, join Shane Chagpar in this course, as he provides an overview of the TOGAF Foundation exam, taking you step-by-step through the learning objectives for the Level 1 exam.

Explore the logistics of the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam. Learn who it's for, what objectives exam takers should focus on, and which resources can be used to prepare.

A proper security foundation is key for any cloud environment. The new SC-900 exam from Microsoft (SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals) provides a great foundation for anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security concepts across Microsoft's cloud-based services. This course covers in-depth the concepts that exam takers will be tested on. Instructor Sharon Bennett dives into security, compliance, and identity fundamentals for Microsoft, from overarching concepts through solution capabilities. Sharon also goes over threat protection, security management, and compliance management.

The Azure exams have gone through many changes over the past few years, moving towards a more role-based exam style. As a part of this update, the AZ-204 exam was created. In this course, instructor Carmel Eve goes over how best to prepare for the AZ-204 exam, including what to practice, the exam format, and more. Carmel explains the benefits of becoming certified in Microsoft Azure and goes over the structure and goals of the exam. She covers each section of the exam, giving you a brief overview of the section then going into each topic in more detail. Carmel provides hands-on examples of how various Azure services can be used and configured. She discusses question formats and what you will encounter when you actually go to take the exam. Carmel concludes with an explanation of how the exam fits into the wider range of Microsoft certifications and highlights some options for continuing in your exam preparations.