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Accessibility for Managers and Non-Designers
What is accessibility and why does it matter? from Accessibility for Managers and Non-Designers by David Karlins
Creating accessible products requires an informed and sweeping mindset that thinks across the entire digital product workflow and lifecycle. In this course, designed specifically for non-designers and non-developers, learn how you and your colleagues can lead and contribute to UX design projects that are accessible and inclusive to the broadest possible number of people. Find out how to recognize, appreciate, and convey the long-term value, benefits, and ROI of accessible products and experiences. Instructor David Karlins gives you an overview of how non-technical stakeholders at any level, in any organization, can unleash and guide designers and developers to create accessible user experiences. Along the way, he shares tips on testing strategies, with and without outside resources, as well as how to leverage accessibility features to promote your business and develop relationships with customers.
Reviews and comments at LinkedIn Learning:
Justine Lomanno (She/Her), Speech Language Pathologist exploring new opportunities: It was a great course. Very approachable and digestible for someone who may not be currently working in the space. Bookmarked a handful of sections that mentioned great resources, too!
Gwen Schneider, Quality Control Inspector, LinkedIn Learning Reviewer rating 5 out of 5: This is such important information for those who are not aware of this. I cannot believe someone is addressing this issue and hopefully helping others to see the light.
Adam Sklar, Author, Accessibility Manager | Project Manager | Program Manager | Scrum Master | Product Owner | Agile | Scaled Agile (SAFe): I learned from the course it’s a good idea to include leveraging the marketing and sales teams to proactively help promote accessibility… It was a great course and I highly recommend it. Thank you!
Massimo Vellani Experienced UX Design Leader | Driving Innovation and User-Centric Solutions: If I were to highlight one key insight that this course has reinforced in my thinking, it would be the understanding that accessibility is beneficial for both users and businesses.
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Using Style Guides to Bridge Design and Development
Style guides for designer and developer communication from Using Style Guides to Bridge Design and Development by David Karlins
Explore the basics of a well-designed style guide to learn more about how it maps out on particular elements, including colors, fonts, copy, layout, formatting, textures, graphics, and other key design elements. Along the way, David gives you tips on how to generate and share style guide docs with project stakeholders. By the end of this course, you’ll also be equipped with new technical skills for exporting your complete style guide from a prototyping app like Figma into a developer tool like Zeplin.
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Available Now: 3rd Course on Design-to-development Workflow
Using Zeplin in Design Projects by David Karlins
Leveraging Zeplin for design projects from Using Zeplin in Design Projects by David Karlins
September 28, 2023: The third of my trilogy of online courses for LinkedIn Learning dropped this week. The common thread is design-to-production workflow. The progression through the courses is 1) how to leverage accessible, universal, institutional style guides; 2) why and how to build accessibility into the design-to-development workflow from day one; and 3) cutting edge technology (Zeplin) for managing all this.
Review at LinkedIn Learning:
Mahla Khalili Moghadam, 1st Graphic Designer, LinkedIn Learning Reviewer rating 5 out of 5: This course is very useful for a better understanding of the system design, which is provided with clear examples for a better understanding of the user, this is amazing, so clear what is conveyed and to the point. Thank You.
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David Karlins is…
Student of and resource for communication technology, culture and technique: Author of a unique range of dozens of books on communication design and tech including Building Websites All-In-One For Dummies (co-author), HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies, Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies, and Adobe Analytics For Dummies (co-author); UI/UX designer and content developer; creator of online courses syndicated through Cengage and LinkedIn Learning; Adjunct Professor, City University of New York (CUNY) and Lecturer, New York University (NYU).
Zachary Baisley, AuthorSenior Developer: I have used and created style guides before in different forms for individual pieces for development work, usually 5-10 page pdfs exported from word or Illustrator containing basic color typography and other important visual and standard type information. But seeing the examples I have a whole lot of new ideas for additional sections and layouts I would like to try in the future and template for future projects:) Seeing examples of what other people do and how they lay out their information was pretty creative juice stirring.