Design courses
Want the shortlist rather than the catalogue? Read Best UX Design Courses Online in 2026, which compares a handful of these courses and says who each one is for.
The design courses listed here cover UX research, interface design, design systems, typography, motion and the portfolio work that goes with them. The providers include Google, the California Institute of the Arts, UC San Diego and TU Delft.
Design is hired on portfolio, so the courses worth paying for are the ones that end with something you can show. Filter by level, then check whether the course sets a brief or only teaches a tool.
A Design course is worth paying for when it closes a gap someone is hiring for. Read your CV against the job you are targeting in CV and Job Match, check what the role pays and who is advertising for it in Job Scout and on the salary pages, and let Course Path put the remaining gaps in order, cheapest and shortest first where that makes no difference to the outcome.
Design courses worth starting with
The catalogue holds 116 Design courses. These 17 are the ones we point people at first, chosen for a provider name a recruiter recognises, a credential worth writing on a CV and a description that says more than the course title. Each page carries the provider, the level, the length and the certificate. The rest of the subject is on the same page, and the filters search all of it.
- Pattern Studying and Making Tu an Shen Mei Yu Chuang Zuo
- Audio Production for Content Creators Advanced Loop Creation and Underscoring
- Human Centered Design for Work at a Distance Prototype Solutions
- Human Centered Design for Work at a Distance Toolbox Essentials
- With Edx Course V1 Edx Buildwedxnew 2024 T1
- Di Napoli Federico II Theatre and Set Design
- Fundamentals of UX Design & Practical UX Research
- Fairbanks 3D Printing Unlocked Intermediate Design Techniques
- Product Design the Delft Design Approach
- UX Data Analysis
- Introduction to AI in Architectural Design
- How to Build Your Design Portfolio
- Product Design Prototyping and Testing
- UX Design
- Design Thinking for Business Leaders
- Google UX Design Professional Certificate
- Google UX Design Certificate
What this page lists for Design
116 Design courses have a page on this site. By platform that is edX 50, Udemy 36, Coursera 28, Scrimba 2. By the level the provider states, 61 beginner, 52 intermediate, 3 advanced. On credentials, 10 are a Professional Certificate and 106 a plain certificate of completion. Every one of those counts is a count of rows in the catalogue on this page, and every one of them can be checked against the filters on this page: set the platform or the level and compare the number of results.
What this page does not cover
- We have not taken these courses. The level, the length and the certificate line come from the provider's own listing, and nothing on this page is a review of the teaching.
- A certificate is usually a paid extra rather than part of a free course. edX states of its own audit track that "Auditors have temporary access to edX course materials at no cost", and the certificate sits on the paid track instead. Read the price line on the course page before you assume a free course ends in a credential.
- Careery earns affiliate commission on some course links. It does not change the order of this list, which is set by the filters you choose, and it is the reason to say so here.
- This is what we list, not what exists. A subject missing from the counts above is missing from our catalogue, which is not evidence that nobody teaches it.
Catalogue last updated 2026-09-13. Counts on this page are generated from that catalogue when the page is built, so they change when it does. The edX wording above was read on 2026-09-28. For what a certificate is and is not worth on a CV, read are online certificates worth it.