Design Foundations for Non-Designers

What you'll be able to do. Produce internal slides, simple landing pages, and product mocks that look intentional, not improvised.

Eight weeks of fundamentals: type, layout, colour, hierarchy. You won't graduate as a designer, but you'll stop sending presentations that look like a hostage note.

You will leave able to

• Choose typography that signals the tone you actually want.
• Lay out a slide, page, or screen so the eye lands where you intend.
• Build a simple, consistent colour system you can reuse for years.
• Critique your own work the way a senior designer would.

Curriculum

1. Week 1: Why most internal work looks bad — and what fixes it
2. Week 2: Type as a system
3. Week 3: Grid & alignment
4. Week 4: Colour with restraint
5. Week 5: Hierarchy & emphasis
6. Week 6: Mid-program review
7. Week 7: Putting it together — a real artefact from your job
8. Week 8: Final cohort critique

Format

8 weeks · Online · Wed, 7–9pm SGT · Beginner

Prerequisites: None. A laptop and any presentation or page-layout tool you already use.