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SUMMARY:Cooper U: Visual Interface Design course
LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Visual interface design combines detailed interaction design, s
 creen layout, and branding to ensure that a well-conceived, well-behaved pr
 oduct is also a usable and desirable one. Doing visual interface design the
  Goal-Directed way helps ensure that decisions and evaluation are based on 
 clear criteria, rather than subjective opinion.
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\nThis two-day workshop 
 will teach you how to:
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\n    * Use research and personas to guide visual
  choices and drive consensus
\n    * Use color, size, and other visual prop
 erties to clarify interaction and information
\n    * Create learnable, mem
 orable icons
\n    * Adapt your corporate identity to a product or Web site
 
\n    * Apply visual design principles to multiple platforms
\n    * Manag
 e the collaboration between interaction design and visual interface design
 \n    * Develop a comprehensive visual system for consistent, easy applicat
 ion
\n    * Capture your work in a comprehensive visual style guide
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\nAf
 ter taking this course, interaction designers, programmers, and product man
 agers will be better able to evaluate and discuss visual interface design. 
 Practicing visual interface designers and graphic designers may find that t
 he sections on brand and using visual properties to establish hierarchy are
  review.
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\nHere's what attendee
 s are saying:
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\n"Take this course! There's really none like it."
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\n"E
 xcellent course. Good mix of theory and practical application."
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\n"Inten
 se and challenging--full of information that can be used in real life."
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\nMake the trip even more worthwh
 ile! Our four-day Interaction Design Practicum is the previous week, and ou
 r two-day course on Communicating Design is the same week.
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\nAll Cooper 
 U courses are taught by senior Cooper designers. Courses are limited to 20 
 people to ensure plenty of interaction.
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