Learn to make it beautiful.

Practical courses in learning design and graphic design from the studio behind Beautiful But Never Boring. Every course comes with the working files you keep. The first one opens December 8.

One standard for every course.

Five courses open this winter, with more coming in 2027. Every one of them is built the same way.

Two to three hours each, in short video lessons you can finish in a week.
Working files you keep: templates, starter kits and checklists.
Screens from the real tools, so you can follow along click by click.
A finished piece of work at the end, ready for your portfolio.

The courses

Five to start, opening one at a time from December 8.

Each course teaches one finished skill: a deck leadership reads, a branded block library, cleaner course screens, a portfolio that gets interviews, or an interaction worth showing off. Start with the one you need most.

Slide Design for Non-Designers

Opens December 8. $129

Five rules for decks leadership takes seriously. You get a PowerPoint template with a Slide Master, a six-layout sheet and practice files, then take one of your own decks from cluttered to executive-ready.

A boardroom screen showing one clean line chart

Custom Code Blocks for Rise

Opens in December. $69

Twelve designed, accessible interactions for Rise and the design system to make them yours: flip cards, a before and after slider, branching scenarios and more, restyled for any brand. No coding background needed.

A laptop showing an interactive Rise lesson with flip cards

Visual Design for Instructional Designers

Opens in January. $149

Your content is sound. Your screens still look amateur. Fix them in four passes: structure, type, color and imagery. Twenty-two video lessons, a style guide you can reuse, and a redesign of one of your own modules.

Color swatches and type specimens beside a tablet showing a clean course screen

The ID Portfolio That Gets Interviews

Opens in January. $149

A portfolio gets about ninety seconds. Learn what hiring managers look for, how to show work that is confidential, and how to write and present one complete case study, published by the last lesson.

Two people reviewing a printed design portfolio in an interview

Storyline Beyond the Basics

Opens in January. $229

Variables, conditions, custom states and navigation that does not look like the defaults. Finish with a branching scenario and a custom menu, ready for your portfolio.