Learn how to apply simple UX design principles to your site to make it behave in the way that users want and expect.

What's changing in the world of UX and how can you adapt to meet the needs of today's users? Get insights that help you strengthen your design choices and stay current with trends.

Have you wondered how to use your Spark account to promote your brand, how to work with custom logos and fonts in Spark, or how to collaborate with others on a branded account? Wonder no more. In this course, instructor Richard Harrington shows you how to use Adobe Spark to promote your company or project. Richard goes over how to use a branded account and create consistent branding in Adobe Spark. He explains how to integrate your logo, fonts, and colors into a wealth of design options, then goes into how to create and manage the layout of templates in Adobe Spark. Richard discusses how to manage a brand and collaborate with others. He also covers essential design skills for Spark post, video, and page projects.

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

In addition to all the tools and plug-ins that make Adobe XD a standout design tool, a key advantage of XD is its place in the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. In this course, Bart Van de Wiele shows how you can leverage the strength of XD with other design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Stock. He shows how to open and place native Illustrator and Photoshop content into Adobe XD, how to share and update content with Creative Cloud Libraries, and how to leverage Adobe Stock in your creative process. In addition to showing how to bring content into Adobe XD, Bart also shows how to export content out of XD and use it in other design applications.

Kick-start your journey into big data analytics with this introductory course about .NET for Apache Spark. Instructor Brigit Murtaugh explains how .NET for Apache Spark will empower you to participate in the world of big data within the .NET ecosystem. She shows you how to create a simple .NET for Apache Spark word count application and run it on your local machine, then shows you how to write a batch processing app. Next, she steps you through a structured streaming app that processes words live as you type them into a terminal. Brigit covers how to leverage ML.NET in combination with .NET for Apache Spark to perform sentiment analysis on a set of online reviews. She teaches you how to deploy your .NET for Apache Spark app to Azure Databricks. Then she concludes by demonstrating how to deploy the .NET for Apache Spark app to Azure HDInsight.

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

Learn how to quickly deploy safety and emergency-response training using Articulate Rise 360, the popular elearning authoring tool.

Discover practical ways to leverage Adobe Character Animator throughout the production process—from pre-production to post-production and delivery.

Learn how to design and implement customer service surveys, and turn the data into actions that can improve service quality.

Jeff Selingo visits LinkedIn Studios to weigh in on the importance of using data when making hiring decisions, the complexity of today's job market, and the trends that data science is revealing.

Why use containers with your .NET Core applications? When you write an application, you have to consider the application code, frameworks, packages, and the underlying operating system itself. Using Docker allows you to encapsulate everything you need to run an application, with all its dependencies, in one nice, neat package that you can replicate on any machine or workstation, as many times as you need. In this course, Shayne Boyer and Lisa Guthrie start with the very basics of Docker, covering the concepts and practical uses, then move on to integrating Docker with Visual Studio to help you containerize your apps with just a few clicks. Finally, Shayne and Lisa show you a simple way to publish your containerized web app.

Lead effectively during times of change. Learn how to acknowledge difficult reactions to change and disruptions, and harness the power of emotion to fuel lasting growth.

Learn how to improve and reduce database-access code for legacy databases by using Entity Framework Core.

Learn how to give timely, effective feedback that boosts your employees' efficiency and overall performance in the workplace.

Learn how to use C# generics to build more reusable, type-safe code. Find out how to use generics in popular C# design patterns.

Learn how to get started filming and editing green-screen video.

Learn how to use humor to get better results from your L&D. Discover how to grab attention and maximize engagement by making training fun.

Learn the steps and techniques involved in combining Lightroom and Photoshop, from essential application settings to workflow examples.

SharePoint Syntex is a new tool that uses AI to extract information from documents and forms in SharePoint libraries. For example, you could import hundreds of contracts and have SharePoint automatically recognize the participants in the contracts and contract amounts, or you could pull totals from a set of invoices and add that information directly into a SharePoint library column. In this course, instructor Phil Gold walks through using the Syntex AI to train models to identify types of documents and forms and to define the specific information you want to capture. After defining some basic concepts and best practices, Phil steps through setting up Syntex and creating document-understanding models and form-processing models. He shows how to build classifiers and extractors for documents, create and label collections of similar forms, and add your models to your SharePoint libraries to automatically capture data previously available only through time-consuming manual labor.

Over 75 million people now use Microsoft Teams every day. The increasing number of people using Teams has changed the way users work with Outlook—one of the world's most popular desktop email clients—for communication, scheduling, and general collaboration. In this course, discover how to use these two programs together in the right balance to increase collaboration and maximize productivity. Learn about managing calendars, creating meetings and appointments, and the features of private and group chats. Explore the overlapping tools provided in both programs and which type of communication is best accomplished with each application.

Learn how neuroscience—the study of the human brain—can help you create more effective training. Increase retention and engagement with these simple tips.