Canva for UX Brainstorming and Collaboration
1h 19mIntermediate2022-10-13
Authors
Lachezar Arabadzhiev
Founder and CEO at SkildLabs | eLearning Business Growth
Course details
If your work involves UX design, brainstorming, collaboration, or presenting your ideas, then you know the value of a tool that can help you do these tasks efficiently and effectively. In this course, businessman and eLearning expert Lachezar Arabadzhiev introduces you to Canva, a popular hosted graphics service. Lachezar shows you business design essentials, such as uploading and cropping images, organizing your layout, removing image backgrounds, and much more. He covers ways to build better presentations by connecting your design vision and your target audience, incorporating fonts and effects in ways that maximize your presentation’s impact, and adding audio, video, and PDFs to your designs. Lachezar also offers useful advice on using Canva to improve collaboration with your teams and clients, engage your audience, run brainstorming sessions, and create interactive polls and quizzes.
Skills covered
CanvaInfographicsContent MarketingPersonaGraphic DesignMarketing
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - What is Canva and Canva Pro
- 02 - Explore the Canva UI
1. Business Design Essentials
- 03 - Cropping, flipping, and basic positioning
- 04 - Structure and align design elements
- 05 - Use the Background Removal tool
- 06 - Use color palettes and symbolism
- 07 - The power of SVG graphics
- 08 - Lock and switch between layers
- 09 - Configure dynamic charts and lines
- 10 - Use frame, grids, and smart mockups
- 11 - Resize designs with Magic Resize
- 12 - Working with interactive tables
2. Presentations
- 13 - Connect design vision and target audience, part 1
- 14 - Connect design vision and target audience, part 2
- 15 - Understand typography
- 16 - Animation and effects in presentations
- 17 - Talking presentations and Canva Live
- 18 - Podcasts and adding audio to designs
- 19 - Edit video in Canva with timelines and transitions
- 20 - Import and edit PDFs
3. Collaboration
- 21 - Design together with your team and clients
- 22 - Engage your audience with icebreakers
- 23 - Run ideation or brainstorming sessions
- 24 - Create interactive polls and quizzes
- 25 - Utilizing freehand drawing for collaboration
- 26 - Elevate interactive collaboration with whiteboards
Conclusion
- 27 - Design with Canva on desktop and mobile
- 28 - Apps and integrations
- 29 - Next steps
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