inDesign Building Blocks (Udemy.com)

easy to follow.

As a beginner, I find the lessons easy to understand and learn from. I also like the fact that you learn by making projects and not just learning to use inDesign. The instructor is knowledgeable, clear and straight forward. I am already working on a few ideas from what I am learning.

This is such a great course for those looking to use the popular inDesign software. I didn't have much experience with this software before taking this course. I now feel like I can navigate my way around and create great work using the software. Thanks so much for this course! Highly recommend!

I really appreciate the step-by-step instructions. It makes it easy for me to follow. I am an all-thumbs back-end coder with no eye for graphic design, so this is kind of a scary topic for me, but the instructor is making it approachable with her friendly, patient approach. (I can deal with rectangles!) Looking forward to designing my own simple items! Thank you! Donny

Yes I love this course since it show's actual projects instead of how to do individual actions

The course outline is well defined. The project files follow the course content. The course is clear and concise. There are a couple of technical terms the instructor glosses over. If I didn't already know what they meant, I still wouldn't know.

This was an terrific course as an intro to inDesign; a software product that I had previously never used.

Instructor Kirsten Rourke knows her stuff. She did an excellent job of going through the basics. The mini-projects at the end of each unit helped solidify the principles taught.

I wish there had been an intro where the instructor talked a bit about the software rather than just jumping right into it.

That said, for a newbie like me, this was an excellent intro. Well done.

Having never used inDesign, this course was perfect for me. The instructor went through the basic tools and how to use them.

The instructor showed how they were used for real-world projects. For example, she showed how to use the most basic tools in the first lesson. At the end, she opened up the Business Card Project, and I could immediately see how each of the elements on the document applied within the project.

One feature of the class that I found very helpful was that she gave very useful tips that, being new to inDesign, I wouldn't have considered. For example, it's best to have the character and paragraph style panels separate so you can clearly see all the styles that are applied.

I highly recommend this course to anyone starting out with inDesign.

I 've taken lots of FrameworkTV courses, this is the first one with this teacher. But regardless of the course instructor the quality persists, explanations are very solid and simplified for everyone (beginners and not) to understand. The way this course is setup you watch a video that shows the tools and techniques to be used for a specific topic (for example designing a business card), and then after the video you have a pdf that guides you through the workshop where you will put in practice what you just learned. This includes resources to complete the lab assignments/workshops. Normally they are also very good at answering questions as in the FrameworkTV team they have teacher assistants available to get you unstuck when needed. Highly recommended.

I was looking for a course like that.Well organized,well presented.Previous knowledge not necessary,inDesign software is needed of course.To sum up a good way of investing time and money.

Adobe's inDesign is a complex tool for professional publishing. Kirsten Rourke clearly knows her stuff and is an experienced educator. In the videos she shows how to use the different tools to create what you want and to manipulate the result.

You will have to watch each video many times because a lot is going on, but in the end you will be able to use this system in a sophisticated way.

While she is speaking, a transcript can be shown if you like to the right of the screen and printable handouts are available.

This is a high quality course, as you can expect from Frameworktv, and I can recommend to follow this course before diving into the documentation that comes with this package.

This is just an outstanding course for several reasons, I will mention two of them.

The first reason is a very competent method of presenting the material. Thanks to it course is not boring! On the contrary, it immediately captures your attention and interest, which is not typical for courses of this kind. The course is clearly structured - from simple to complex, step by step and each step is completed by the user creating his own project. Projects also become more complicated as they progress, but their descriptions in the accompanying files are so clear and detailed that it is impossible not to complete them. Nothing superfluous and all that is really needed.

And the second reason is the personality of the lecturer. High professionalism of Kirsten is combined with her charm and elegance, which is very conducive to interest in the material. Her diction is very clear, the pace and speed of speech is exactly what is needed for effective learning of the material. In my opinion, she is one of the best lecturers on Udemy and for sure, the best one I've ever heard here.