Posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2014 by Will Hagle
Hack Design is an easy to follow design course, curated by top designers.
Hack Design is an online design instruction service that drastically differentiates itself from other sites providing the same education. 
Rather than progressing through a university-style course with video lectures and assignments, Hack Design’s curriculum arrives in the form of an email each week. All you have to do is enter your email address on the site’s homepage in order to begin receiving lessons to your inbox. The site boasts the fact that its lessons are easy to follow because they allow you to begin doing real life design work right away. The lessons incorporate interactive content, so you can begin working with puzzles and games as you learn new design methods. The lessons have been curated by a group of talented designers from around the world — individuals who work for companies such as Facebook and Salesforce as well as innovative startups.
The site also offers a comprehensive, curated list of the best design tools. Some of the tools like Dropbox and Photoshop are more recognizable, while others liike Balsamiq Mockups might be more obscure to beginner designers. Hack Design clearly explains what each tool or application does and gives a link to where the tool can be downloaded. In terms of the actual lessons offered by Hack Design, instruction varies from the simple Lesson 1 course title “What is design? Why is it important?” to the more advanced Lesson 36 course “Designing Habit-Forming Products.” Speaking of habit-forming products, that’s exactly what Hack Design is. The fact that the lessons arrive in your inbox once a week encourages you to stay on task, forming the positive habit of learning design skills that could definitely improve your job skills as well as your personal creativity. It’s worth entering your email address at Hack Design. The best case scenario is you’ll become a world-class designer. The worst case scenario is you just ignore the emails.
