12 Best Creative Design Courses on Coursera
We compared 12 Creative Design courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $69.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including University of California, Irvine and Michigan State University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 12
- Price range
- $9.99 – $69.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 5 Sep 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "creative design" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $69.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Programming for the Internet of Things Project
Offered by University of California, Irvine
In this Capstone course, you will design a microcontroller-based embedded system. As an option, you can also build and test a system. The focus of your project will be to design the system so that it can be built on a lo...
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Game Design and Development 1: 2D Shooter
Offered by Michigan State University
If you love games and want to learn how to make them, then this course will start you down that path. Making games is a creative and technical art form. In this course you will familiarize yourself with the tools and pra...
$49.00listed price -
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Blender 3D for Beginners: Learn to Model a Balloon Dog
Offered by Skillshare
Hi, my name is 'Harry Helps' and In this class I'll guide you through a fun beginner exercise where we’ll create a 3d balloon dog in Blender. We’ll go through each part of the process step-by-step, so you should find it...
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Design Theory Principles for Print and Digital Applications
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization, taught by instructor Martin Perhiniak, is intended for aspiring and professional graphic designers seeking to develop advanced skills in visual communication and layout. Through four in-depth courses...
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Design a Strong and Cohesive Product Brand
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization, led by instructors Sina Port, Khadija El Sharawy, and Roman Muradov, is intended for creative professionals and aspiring brand designers seeking to develop practical and strategic branding skills. Th...
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Improve your productivity and performance with Canva
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will create printables that you can use to structure your day, improve your productivity and enhance your performance. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other des...
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How to make invitations using Canva
Offered by Coursera
In this project you will learn how to design invitations for any event using Canva. Canva is a free web design service where you have countless tools to design all kinds of media you need. Canvas is a great option for th...
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Erstelle Social Media Anzeigen in Canva
Offered by Coursera
Nach Abschluss dieses Projekts, kannst du Anzeigen für soziale Medien mit Hilfe der gratis Version von Canva kreieren und gestalten. Egal, ob du eine neue Marke startest oder eine bestehende mithilfe deiner Social-Media-...
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Cómo crear tu marca personal usando Canva
Offered by Coursera
En este proyecto guiado aprenderemos sobre cómo podemos crear nuestra marca personal y cómo podemos utilizar la plataforma de Canva para hacerlo. Canva es una plataforma web de diseño gráfico donde podemos crear cualquie...
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10
Cómo crear medios imprimibles en Canva
Offered by Coursera
En este proyecto aprenderás a hacer diferentes tipos de medios imprimibles utilizando Canva. Canva es un servicio web gratuito de diseño donde tienes una gran variedad de herramientas para diseñar todo tipo de medios que...
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Create Animated Social Media Posts using Canva
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create an animated social media post using the free version of Canva. Animated social media posts are great tools for drawing the attention of your followers and customer...
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Gestalte deinen virtuellen Klassenzimmer mit Canva
Offered by Coursera
Nach Abschluss dieses Projekts wirst du gelernt haben dein virtuelles Klassenzimmer mit Hilfe der gratis Version von Canva zu designen und einzurichten. Virtuellem Lernen kommt eine immer größere Bedeutung zu. Im heutige...
$9.99listed price
Best Creative Design Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 12 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $69.00, with the middle of the range around $9.99 — a spread of $59.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of California, Irvine and Michigan State University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 5 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.