This is a great course for all-time beginners to learn about the most fundamental principles of design. It is not, however, so much a compelling course if you have any notion about design in general or color as it is as bare-bones as it can get. I have really liked the lectures though, and the projects, though they could have been a little bit more challenging, were good examples of a real-life practice.

i like the overall coures its amazing the videos are understandable and easy to learn from.

only disadvantage that i have seen is since i am new to this coures it was hard form me to find materialse to work on like different apps it would have being great if you get to tell us what kind of app to use and which are easy for new starters or even small topic on haw to use them.thanks for the course.

I am an under-grad (2015) in product design from Srishti Institute in Bangalore, India. Currently, a multi-disciplinary professional, I was seeking to clear my basics in graphic design; the course has definitely met this requirement of mine. I liked the simplicity of exercises - not demanding too much - allowing enough time to play around and develop good grip over each aspect of graphic design.

Lots of really great information laid out in a beginner friendly manner. More focused on the concepts of design and design principles than on how to use graphic design software or create actual designs. Really great for beginners, or those who are new to the art/design world. As an artist with studio art background the principles of design were a bit repetitive, but overall nice class.

Great course! The professor was interesting to listen to, and I loved how hands-on it was. My only complaint, and this is probably more in regards to the system than the course itself, was that once you complete the required activity (Brief or Quiz) each week, you were automatically advanced to the next week, which made it difficult to watch and complete the "bonus" lessons.

Good, quick intro to theory of graphic design. Clear and concise instruction. You should have some knowledge of drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator. If you don't know it, prepare to spend some time on Youtube figuring out how to do some of the projects. This course would be much better if there were some instruction on how to create the images they ask you to create.

I really enjoyed this course however it was not exactly as I had envisioned. Perhaps the issue was that I have taken few graphic design related classes before and this course is for absolute beginners. Therefore, if you have basic knowledge in graphic design and want to do more complex projects, I would recommend a much more advanced course. I still learned plenty though!

You have to start somewhere. As someone who is pursing these certificates for resume purposes but has already done a substantial amount of Graphic Design I found this course to good to refresh some of the basic knowledge I already had but I wish the course dove a little bit deeper into more of the fundamentals. However, I did enjoy the typography week quite a bit.

Very basic, very fundamental. I learned some very basic knowledge in the course. They don't teach how we can use graphic software to quickly start the career but teach some basic and necessary things before we can make any product. If you want to learn systematically, this course is for you. If you want to be a designer immediately after few weeks, never buy this.

It was a thought-provoking experience getting to complete this course. Under such well-composed and procedural guidance, I was able to enjoy all the assignments that'd been given, as they helped develop my understanding and eye for design. I feel that what I learned can be applied in the professional field, though they may need more honing. Thank you very much!

I loved the course, although a point of concern are the peer-reviewed assignments. I have personally experienced a couple of instances where I was judged wrongly by a reviewer because of his misunderstanding of what the assignment really required. If there could be a way to monitor the peer reviews, that would be great. Content and teaching were all amazing!

Very interesting and well done course. If I can suggest, we should have feedback from the professors on our assignments. If this is something impossible, considered the huge amount of persons applying for the course, he should at least check some work and give a feedback in order for us to understand if the works done are made in a correct way or not.

well ,in this weeks its really fun for me and really helpful at least to understand litlle more of graphic design

like just thinking graphic design is just design a logo or a cool letter logo its not just that its more like other ways explicating to you and maybe helping to you what do you wanna know exactly of the differents styles of graphic design.

Great course. The basics are amazing. The videos are explained wonderfully and at a very easy pace. The exercises are perfect. Only thing is you can't send your homework at first because you didn't pay for it. I didn't get any recognition or diploma... :( NOTHING, and that's a little bit sad. Anyhow, the course is wonderful and I learned a lot!!!

This is an amazing course for beginners. This course help you to get a brief knowledge on what is graphic design and the basic element of graphic design . I had no idea about graphic design and designing but now I have it and I'm confident enough that I can be a graphic designer. This course also boosted up my confidence . A must taking course.

I thought this was a great introduction to Graphic Design. The instructor was clear and gave lots of examples. The cases were fun yet challenging your creativity. The only thing I wish could be better is to get feedback on the assignments from the instructor rather than just the students, although their feedback was usually very helpful.

This course was very well designed and extremely suitable for peeps of all backgrounds. I suppose the only drawback was that I didn't find the course challenging enough. But I went to design school for a few semesters, so I was already pretty familiar with the concepts. Overall, very good practice and a nice refresher. Thanks, Michael!

My only criticism about the class is that no actual feedback is given by the instructor or an expert. A lot of the times the peers that reviewed my assignments gave Yes/No answers without any feedback. I wish I could be evaluated even by a mentor at least, even if the class instructor himself is unable to look at the projects.

This is a great intro course for anybody new to the subject. I look forward to expanding my knowledge with the base of information provided here. I also really loved the assignments and the deadlines; I've been trying to learn the fundamentals on my own, but having the structure of this class really helped me to make progress.

Really nice and comprehensible course, with examples that clarify the concepts. Some peer-reviewed assignments are a bit ambiguous and take some extra time to understand, but in overall they are great. The course is not meant to teach in-depth details on how to make great design, but nicely paves the way for further learning.

I found that the content of the course helped me understand the basics of graphic design and experiment with my creativity. I liked reviewing my peers' work as that also helped with the creativity part. I only wish I could have gotten feedback from members with experience in the industry in order to improve myself even more.

I thought the course content was very rudimentary- I would have preferred a bit more in depth material. I was also hoping to learn which programs graphic designers frequently work in. I liked all of the required assignments, but which there were more of them, and that they were graded by the instructor instead of classmates.

I really enjoyed the course the teacher teaching skills is so good and easily understandable, the give us a deep knowledge in each and every topic. i enjoed alott . |Thanks to COURSERA platefrom that make our learning skills upgrated. and also for his supporting team that accept our financial aids to make our learning free.

The lecturer was inspiring and very well spoken. The assignments emphasized the need to create many different iterations which I feel is a valuable habit to understand from the very beginning. In general I felt that I took a lot away from the course that I could easily apply to my work as a game designer / product person.

The course introduces you to the vital basics of graphic design. Sometimes the information provided is not enough for me as a practicing designer, but I guess it would be OK for beginners. Maybe the main thing about the course is that it constantly encourages students to do a lot of design, and it's definitely inspiring.