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Why Learn Color Design?
This course will teach you to use color more effectively on your websites. It’s perfect for marketers who want to learn how the effective use of color can help them create better-converting landing pages, designers who want to learn more CSS, as well as developers who want to improve the design quality of the projects and apps that they build.
Take-Away Skills:
Practice using CSS while learning design principles, including:
- primary and secondary colors
- brand colors
- colors that suggest UI interactions
- color psychology
- visual accessibility
- and more!
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What you'll learn
- 1
This course will teach learners how to use color in websites to create effective designs.
- 2
Learn how the judicious use of color and contrast can help make website user interfaces easier to navigate.
What you'll create
Portfolio projects that showcase your new skills
Journey Around the World
In this project, you'll use the knowledge you gained from the color theory lesson and apply colors to a website.
Pinpoint E-Commerce
For this project, you'll apply the knowledge gained from the Color For UI lesson and update an e-commerce checkout page to ensure the user is aware of different actions, errors, and other elements on the screen.
How you'll master it
Stress-test your knowledge with quizzes that help commit syntax to memory
— Madelyn, Pinterest“I know from first-hand experience that you can go in knowing zero, nothing, and just get a grasp on everything as you go and start building right away.”