User Interface (UI) Design

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN USER INTERFACE (UI) DESIGN

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MODULES

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Visual Communication

Visual Communication is a key cornerstone of great design. Students of visual communication will embark on a creative adventure to explore, discover and cultivate themselves to become a successful visual communication designer. Through this journey, they will learn the importance of integrating basic design elements, principles of design, visual composition and relationships to identity and resolve visual problems. Specifically, the course focuses on the design process and function, graphical experimentation and developing skills for a visual communication designer.

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Digital Studios I

This module introduces students to the essential vector drawing tools to unlock their creative potential with Adobe Illustrator while learning useful shortcuts to enhance their design workflow. Students will learn from fundamental to advanced techniques of Adobe Illustrator to create and construct logo design, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional graphics, special visual effects, typographical graphics, realistic illustrations, perspective drawings, and 3D packaging mock-up presentations.

This module aims to equip students with the industry professional skills and techniques to edit and create vector visual graphics and special visual effects in the world of visual culture and highly visual-saturated society today.

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Digital Studios II

This module introduces students to the professional practice and experts’ choice of digital image editing, manipulation, and photo retouching tools for graphic design and multimedia with Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn from fundamental to advanced skills and techniques of Adobe Photoshop to create special visual effects, artistic interpretation of images and enhance digital photography.

The emphasis includes the design process and exploration of advanced Photoshop techniques by integrating raster and vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator to maximize the tools' creative potential to create appealing visuals to engage the audiences. This module aims to provide students, graphic designers, web designers, multimedia designers, photographers, and special effects artists with the professional skills to digital image edit, retouch, and process digital images confidently and professionally in your respective profession.

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Typography and Communication Design

This module provides students with the theoretical and practical experiences of typography as a visual language and its application in visual communication design. Students will learn the history of type, anatomy, terminology, type classifications, principles of typography, typographic layout, type aesthetic and type choices consideration. The emphasis includes in-depth understanding on the role, purpose and function of typography.

The aim of his module is to provide students with the understanding of how typographic elements such as letter structure, legibility, readability, tone of voices, type personality, characteristics, mood, selection of type choices, integration of other design elements and visual compositional relationships can create a visual impact in visual communication design today.

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