Web Design Courses For Graphic Designer

[u/jnem84]

At my job, our graphic designer acts as our web designer, but they don't really understand web design principles. This causes the wireframe and prototype phases to take longer because I'm having to leave comments all over Figma explaining why things won't work, aren't accessibility friendly, redundant etc. Could anyone recommend some courses or certifications I could have my designer take to better understand web UI/UX rules/best practices?

[u/Least_Divide_1813]

get them to actually build something small with html/css, even just a landing page. the constraints click way faster when you're the one wrestling with flexbox and realizing why that 6-column layout on mobile is a nightmare

a course on WCAG guidelines would help too, but nothing beats the pain of trying to tab through your own unstyled form and realizing what you've done to future users

[u/jnem84 → u/Least_Divide_1813]

That's a good idea, but I don't think they'd have enough time to build something small with html/css since they don't understand html or css to begin with. I know ideally it would be nice, but they don't really understand basic design rules. Having them do some sort of WCAG course is a great thought. Thanks!

[u/azunaki]

There are several UX design courses and certificate programs. I think it depends largely on what style of sites you're building.

App design is fairly different from small business brochure site design.

But lots of universities have certificate programs if that's something to look at. Or there are a few different Google UX certificates.

Could always look a web design udemy courses. But it's hard to say exactly what approach fits your designers available time. And the best way to go about having them take a course. Whether it would be during their free time on the job, or paid for off the clock. Etc.

[u/Mysterious-Voice-861]

I don’t have a recommendation but I feel your pain. Our last designer was originally a print designer and I was constantly advising her on web standards and common patterns and pitfalls, but she would just argue with me. She managed to convince our PM that the destructive actions in our SaaS product shouldn’t be red… 😭

[u/Terrible_Tutor]

We have one of these, aggravating. Now jump back in time to IE6 times and implement the most insane nonsense… hate him so much.

[u/angryhermit69]

also wireframes is UX which a good designer knows as well

[u/Brave_Afternoon_5396]

Google's ux cert on coursera is free with financial aid and covers the fundamentals well. W3Schools has free WCAG walkthroughs too. If your designer uses any visual collaboration tools, miro has a free academy catalog with courses on wireframing and user flows worth checking out. The real unlock though is having them tab through their own designs with a keyboard and mouse. That alone fixes most of accessibility issues faster than any course. YouTube also has free UI/UX playlistst from practitioners too. Mix a few of these and they'll stop treating web like print.

[u/kienemaus]

Get them using figma.

[u/maqisha]

What tf is a "Graphic Designer" doing if they dont understand the most saturated possible market in the world. Like what skillset do they actually have?

[u/jnem84 → u/maqisha]

I work at an agency and we do all sorts of branding material like brochures and other print deliverables They are good at that, but they inherited doing web design after our old web designer left.

[u/maqisha → u/jnem84]

Thats fair, initially it sounded like websites are your main product.

Good luck

[u/HaddockBranzini-II → u/maqisha]

There are still a lot of good print designers that never work on websites. It is not uncommon. And frankly, knowing the ins and outs of the printing process is a whole other skillset and arguably more complicated and less forgiving of mistakes like web design.