As a designer, have you ever experienced a scenario where you met with a client, agreed on the direction of a project, enthusiastically got to work, showed the client your progress, only to realize you were not on the same page at all? How can you avoid situations where your vision and your client’s expectations are not in sync? With a mood board. In this course, Tina Huffman teaches designers about mood boards—what they are, why they are key to a successful project, and how to use them to build a client's brand. She starts with the basic components of a mood board like colors, imagery, and fonts, then delves into sources of inspiration. Tina also covers different creation tools and platforms for mood boards, like Pinterest, Canva, and Adobe Spark, and includes a challenge exercise to create a mood board based on specifications from a hypothetical client. Finally, she shows how to repurpose your mood board for use on social media to showcase your design work and grow your business.

In this course, adapted from the podcast al empire, Dana Ballout interviews Hebah Fisher about the founding of Kerning Cultures Network, a media company run by Arab women. Hebah shares the behind-the-scenes of the trials and success of being a first-mover to the podcast industry in the Middle East. She traces her personal journey and career shift from microfinance to media, how to build a regional network of storytellers from the ground up, and how she attempts to lead a healthy, balanced life.

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

Learn how to use the iBooks Author app to create electronic books that you can share and optionally distribute through the iBooks Store.

Learn how to quickly create photo illustrations on the go with Adobe mobile apps: Photoshop Sketch, Photoshop Fix, and Photoshop Mix. Learn a complete mobile-to-desktop workflow.

Learn the concepts and steps behind creating a photography portfolio that showcases your work and conveys your personal brand.

Learn tangible action steps for building a positive workplace culture.

Discover how to turn customers into raving fans. Learn how to add value and provide an exceptional customer experience through each phase of the customer journey.

Do you know how your customers perceive their complete experience with your company, from first encounter through purchase experience and beyond? Providing an excellent customer experience requires thoughtfulness, tact, and the willingness to look at every interaction from the customer's point of view. In this course, customer experience expert Jeannie Walters walks you through creating a positive customer experience. Jeannie explains how to understand your customer’s end-to-end experience, or customer journey, and goes over the steps to build an effective customer experience strategy. Jeannie offers steps you can take to create and maintain a customer-centric culture—from creating a customer experience mission statement to getting executive buy-in and purposefully using tools like Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure customer feedback. She concludes with advice on understanding customer expectations and key moments you can optimize in the customer journey.

Adobe mobile apps enable designers and artists to take their sketching and ideation workflows on the go—anywhere they can bring a smartphone or tablet. In this course, instructor Tony Harmer introduces a variety of Adobe mobile apps that complement the company's desktop tools, showing how to leverage each app to pull together a simple poster design. Tony shows how to use Photoshop Sketch and Adobe Fresco to sketch out your ideas, create a color scheme for your project, create shapes using Adobe Capture, and work with images using Photoshop Fix, Mix, and Photoshop on the iPad. Follow along to learn about the power of these apps and how this toolset can play an important role in your creative process. Tony finishes by taking the project into Adobe Comp and showing how to create and export your final poster.

Use your InDesign skills to build impactful, design-rich presentations that can be delivered anywhere.

Deliver more innovative products by becoming more product-centric. Learn how to structure your organization, build effective teams, create a stronger product strategy, and more.

Learn how to create a program strategy that aligns with corporate objectives, define a program vision statement, and determine the target operating model for the program.

Peek behind the scenes at the production of a real-world TV commercial. Learn what it takes to plan, shoot, and edit a public service announcement for broadcast and the web.

Design a responsive HTML email that will adapt to varying screen sizes and render correctly in over 30 different email clients, including Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo.

Discover how to use responsive web design to make your site more readable—on any device. Learn how to use HTML and CSS to adapt a layout to different screen sizes and orientations.

Learn how to create collapsible menus and add scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to your responsive web design layouts.

Learn how to add JavaScript to your HTML and CSS to make your webpages more responsive to different screen sizes. Dynamically load content, add animation, and collapse navigation.

Learn how to use Photoshop's digital painting toolset and layer styles to create fine art and concept drawings of fantasy creatures.

Learn how to develop and implement a successful, ongoing security awareness program that's so much more than just one phishing simulation or an annual required training.

React is one of the key technologies that the new and modern web is being built upon. In this course, instructor Brett McLaughlin shows you how React and a complete web development ecosystem work together in building applications. Brett goes through all the steps in getting your React app set up, deployed, connected, and supported. Next, he steps you through creating React components to organize and display your content. Brett teaches you how to add cloud services like a database using JSON data and encourages you to ensure your code works on the cloud platform you're targeting. He covers how to interact with AWS and DynamoDB through the command line, then how to create and use a DynamoDB table. Next, Brett goes into how to create, load, and test a new role that can execute Lambda functions and interact with DynamoDB. He walks you through creating and deploying an API gateway. Brett concludes by showing you how to connect your React code to an API Gateway endpoint.