: Is there any learning service like Pluralsight but for design? Meet Pluralsight. We are a group of serious developers. We are also committed to creating the best training available. This

@Karen819

I know this way late but pluralsight has dramatically grown with far more than just Microsoft related aspects. I have used much of what I learned for production apps. To me I find pluralsight geared towards IT practicioners, development and graphics (digital-tutors) where my take on lynda is more for end-users and power-users, although lynda has development courses as well. As for pluralsigh courses I know they use thought-leaders/well-know practioners and authors for various courses which validate the expertise in the training I receive.

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@Kristi927

tutsplus.com/
A huge library of courses and eBooks to help you learn.
Web Development
Graphic Design
Motion Graphics
and more.

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@Becky351

Pluralsight now owns DigitalTutors (design and 3d training), so there's that.

I've been on DT for a while and I'd recommend it. You get working files, quizes, and tests. One login for the complete tech and design libraries.

Have a look to see if they have courses you're into first as they are a little more geared to game and FX industries, though they do have Photoshop, illustrator, and InDesign tutorials.

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@Jamie315

I did a brief comparison between Lynda and Pluralsight in my post which is currently ranked #1 on Google search. You can find it here:

Lynda vs Pluralsight Online Software Training

In general, Pluralsight has been leaning towards the .NET side for a while but recently added some other courses like Java, Android, Ruby, and web development resources like jQuery, HTML5 and JavaScript Design Patterns.

Lynda on the other hand has a very extensive library of different technologies. You really can't go wrong with them because they don't lean on one thing as Pluralsight did in the beginning.

I would say both of them almost cost the same amount depending on the package you choose!

I hope this helps!

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@Radia289

I think plainclothes and yisela's answers cover the main resources of the type you're looking for, but you could also try free/open source resources that are more on the academic-side:


MIT OpenCourseware
CMU Open Learning Initiative
Harvard Open Learning Initiative
iTunes University (distributes open learning materials from many schools),
P2PU (probably the less vetted of the resources listed here, but there's still some good courses on here by actual college professors),
edX (provided by Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Georgetown, etc.)
the Open University (edit: Open University's OpenLearn)
Academia.edu (this is more of a social network for people to share research-related documents, but there's a lot of researchers/published authors/professors/etc. in the fields of IxD, HCI, branding, visual design, etc.)


I'm not 100% sure all of these have courses in design, but at least a few of them do. Unfortunately Khan Academy and Udacity, two other very good online education providers don't currently offer anything in design (unless you count this KA video on "Intelligent Design").

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@Murray976

Team Treehouse and Codecademy have some interesting web design online courses (HTML + CSS). Not exactly graphic design, but might be of help. Treehouse is a month and Codecademy is free.

PSD Tuts has a "Teach yourself graphic design self-study course" that looks nice.

Coursera offers free courses from big Universities, with certificates and so. I haven't seen one about design, but they do offer things like Human-Computer Interaction.

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@Ravi4787994

Lynda.com is the big hitter in the design world.

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