Basic Design Principles (Udemy.com)
Learn about design principles and how to define and lay out your content.
Created by: Anath Abenzour
Last updated September 2021
What you will learn
- Apply the most important design principles in a site: branding, typography, colors and content
- Define the look and feel of a site, match it with your site content (texts, images, videos, icons, illustrations & animations)
- Create the global design of your site in practice, laying out and formatting the structure of a site
- Match your design with your site content
How it compares
Against the other 815 rated Udemy courses in Web Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 7% of them
- Reviews90#670 of 816 by number of reviews
- Length1.4 hoursshorter than 93% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2021earlier than 79% of them
Course Description
Is design really important when building a website? Do you know the best way to plan your design? Let's learn now!
Web design impacts how your audience perceives your brand. The impression you make influences whether customers remain on your page and learn about your business or leave your page causing you to lose their business. In this course you will learn how good web design helps keep leads on your page and grow your business.
This course has been developed for complete beginners and those who already have knowledge of web design and want to get some new fresh inspirations. Aspiring web designers and web developers who want to understand the design side of the business, and graphic designers - as well as those from completely unrelated disciplines - will all be more than capable of handling the content of this course.
No coding or design experience necessary.
A really short course with 9 lectures, it will take you through the importance of design when planning and building a site from scratch.
You will learn to:
Apply the most important design principles in a site: branding, typography, colors and content
Define the look and feel of a site, match it with your site content (texts, images, videos, icons, illustrations & animations)
Create the global design of your site in practice, laying out and formatting the structure of a site
For a better experience, you should have:
Chrome or Safari browser
Headphones or speakers
No coding or design experience necessary
Taken "Intro to Web Design" and "Content Driven Design"
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
90 Reviews
Anath Abenzour
I'm UI Designer Lead/Product Designer at Duda.
Duda is the leading web design platform for all companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves all types of customers, from freelance web professionals and digital agencies, all the way up to the largest hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers in the world.
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Reviews
By Janet Morris on 6/18/2026
mostly went thru this on duda, good course
By Dolly Roos on 7/18/2024
very good but struggle concentrating because of speaking skills
By Jason Cruz on 10/31/2023
informative and gained helpful insights on layouts and branding.
By Monesa Hanif Dalani on 7/25/2023
speaking skill is not good
By Ali Khan on 7/9/2023
very good and best course content. its very helpful information . thanks
By John Francis Jaranilla on 6/21/2023
Learned a Lot! Kudos
By Kirk D'Penha on 1/17/2023
very informative and clear to understand the ideas of branding, thank you for keeping this course free. love your content
By Mitch Reynolds on 7/15/2022
Lots of great information and advice.
By Jason Stein on 3/2/2022
Instructor needs to put her thoughts down on paper to keep her focused as she has to pause often to refocus her train of thought.
By Amol Patil on 12/17/2021
This is really quick and good guidance for beginners. Thanks Anath for showing live examples.
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Overall Score : 82 / 100






