UCDA Video Library

UCDA is happy to share our extensive library of professional webinars, conference recordings, industry roundtables, video series, case studies, and more exclusively with our members. This library of in-person and remote programs for UCDA members only is a great way for designers, educators, and creative professionals to stay ahead of the curve.

With over 150 videos available, including content on topics such as user experience design, graphic design, and brand identity, you can bookmark this page and check back as new videos are added and this page is updated. With such a wide variety of topics, UCDA’s video library has something for everyone, regardless of experience level.

VIDEOS INCLUDED

UCDA ESSENTIAL SERIES WEBINARS VIDEOS

Staying Creative: Tips and Strategies for Working from Home
A Path to Original Thinking
We Invent Almost Every Day
Intro to Video: How to Get Started in Creating Videos (Premiere Pro)
Advanced Video Creation: Tips and techniques to Make Your Videos Sizzle (After Effects)
New Ways of Looking at a Campus
The Art and Science of Storytelling in Higher Education
Creating Accessible PDFs
Rebranding a University: The Metropolitan State University of Denver Story
Brand Development: Positioning, Creating, and Launching Your Brand
Authentic Communication in the Remote Era
Creating and Communicating in the Digital World
Creating Accessible Interactive Forms Using InDesign
Building an Equitable Workplace Culture
Scott Fuller: Human Being
Design Futures
Creating award-winning videos and promoting your school at the same time
Content, Context, and Collaboration

UCDA CREATIVE SUMMIT VIDEOS

UCDA Creative Summit (2022)

Finding My Voice Through Imposter Syndrome
Live Drawing and Q&A
Failure From My Point of View
Balancing Ambition and Self-Care: Advice for Overachieving Creatives
Collage Workshop: Cut, Paste, Unplug
3rd Spaces, Making Places, Mac and Cheese, Zines, and a Risograph Machine Named Barbara

UCDA Creative Summit (2021)

Communication Through Illustration
Play Within the Box
The Diversity of Letterpress
Not Your Average Beer
The Original Postcard Mural Tour
Think Inside the Box
Be A Self-Starter!

UCDA DESIGN CONFERENCE VIDEOS

UCDA Design Conference (2021)

In-house at Southwest Airlines
The Art and Science of Storytelling in Higher Education
Always in Tandem
How to Stand Out on a Shoestring Budget
Creating Award-winning Videos
Specialize in Giving Back
An Introductory Ethic for Designers
Creatively Making a Difference
Inside InDesign
Taking Your Brand from Inception to the Street
Digital Nomad (or, How I came to Live in an RV)

UCDA Design Conference (2020)

1. The (In)visible Designer: How Design is Central to Telling Your Institutions Story
2. Storytelling the Gap
3. Photography in the Time of COVID (Panel)
4. The Impact of Illustration: Pushing the Boundaries of Your Brand
5. Connecting the Dots Between Marketing and Admissions
6. PDF Accessibility for ADA Compliance
7. How to Tell a Story with Numbers
8. The Art of Story
9. “The ‘I’s’ Have It.” The ‘I’llustration Advantage.
10. Using an Instagram Story to Address Sexual Assault and Other Big Topics
11. How to Achieve Bigger Budget Results ffrom Leaner Budget Photo Shoots
12. Understanding the Diversity Gap in the Design Profession
13. Using Design-Thinking to Explore Burnout Among Designers in the Workplace
14. Gamification of UX
15. Launching McGill University into its 3rd Century
16. We’re in the Future Already
17. Accessibility Remdiation Plan
18. Go Digital and Stay Digital with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
19. LMU Magazine Squares up to Disruption

Sponsor Zoom Rooms

1A. Creative Enablement: Using Style Guides and Digital Asset Management (DAM)—Sponsored by Canto
1B. Reach Out and Touch—Sponsored by Sappi
2A. Intro to Digital Asset Management (DAM) for Higher Education—Sponsored by Canto
3A. Intro to Digital Asset Management (DAM) for Higher Education—Sponsored by Canto
3B. Template Intervention: The 9 Templating Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)—Sponsored by Lucidpress
3C. Print the Things You Wish Existed—Sponsored by Slate Group
3D. Designing with Purpose–Communications that Foster Community and Facilitate Change—Hemlock
3E. Make a Virtual Visit a Reality for Your Campus—Sponsored by mapformation
3F. Reach Out and Touch—Sponsored by Sappi
4A. Creative Enablement: Using Style Guides and Digital Asset Management (DAM)—Sponsored by Canto
4B. How to Templatize Design on Campus—Sponsored by Lucidpress
4C. Servant Leadership in the World of Marketing—Sponsored by Slate Group
4D. Commissioning Illustration: How and Why—Sponsored by Gerald & Cullen Rapp
4E. Designing with Purpose–Communications that Foster Community and Facilitate Change—Hemlock
4F. Introducing Spectro: Engagement through Storytelling and Packaging—Sponsored by Sappi
5A. Intro to Digital Asset Management (DAM) for Higher Education—Sponsored by Canto
5B. The Secret to Herding Cats—Internal Marketing for Brand Templates 101—Sponsored by Lucidpress
5C. Connecting with Students through Augmented Reality—Sponsored by Slate Group

UCDA DESIGN EDUCATION SUMMIT VIDEOS

UCDA Design Education Summit (2021)

Opening Keynote: Magaly Chocano
Life After Quarantine: A Round-Table Discussion
Closing Keynote: Bradford Lawton and Ali Palmerson
01. Reimagining Human-Centered Design when Humans are Inaccessible
02. Redemption: Reforming Juvenile Justice & Disrupting the Status Quo Through Human-Centered Design
03. Teaching the Whole Student: Employing Human-Centered Design Ideologies as Educators
04. Readdressing Graphic Design Curriculum to Include Multicultural Perspectives
05. Re-assessing How Design Education is Approaching Black Lives Endangered by White Privilege
06. A Comparison: Correspondences, Similarities, and Opposites of Chinese and Latin-based Typography
07. A Major Rework: Designing a New Curriculum from the Ground Up
08. Re-thinking How Creative Energy Can Encourage Civic Values and Action
09. Panel: Making the Cut: Reassessing Competitive Applications and Reviews in Design Education
10. Workshop: Teaching with Archives
11. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
12. The Re-Designed Built-Environment for Elementary Schools
13. Rethinking Interactive Design with Machine Learning
14. Repositioning Design. Repositioning Designer. Repositioning Higher Education.
15. Rescuing and Disentangling Right Whales: A Brief Documentary
16. A Novel Idea: Students Utilize the Literary Experience to Re-Imagine Political Campaign
17. Printing Together / Apart
19. Archives-based Design Practice: Recontextualizing The Student Voice
21. Reestablishing a Collaborative Research Project Practice in an Academic Environment
22. Analog Meets Digital
23. Panel: Re-Centering (and De-centering) in Design Education
24. Redesigning HERstory: Women of Graphic Design in America. A Documentary Film
25. Design ARchive: a Participatory Archival Practice for Arkansas Design Histories
26. Re-combinant Design Pedagogy
27. Remain Cyber Active: Teaching UX Design Using Online User Research Tools
28. Redesigning Comfort: the Positive Role of Vulnerability During a Crisis
29. Workshop: Creating Data Visualizations for the Web with d3.js
P-01. Poster: Contact Tracing in an Age of Community Transmitted Diseases
P-02. Poster: Redefining the Designer’s Role as a Design Activist during the Global Pandemic
P-03. Poster: Responding to Student Need in the Early Months of the Pandemic
P-04. Poster: Emotion Under the Mask
P-05. Poster: Nourish: Review Nutritious Foods, Improve Awareness, and Revitalize our Community
P-06. Poster: Resource: Student Designers Working with Clients to Solve Problems
P-07. Poster: The Transart (notso) Short Fest
P-08. Poster: REveal
P-09. Poster: The Split
Poster Sessions: Q & A

UCDA Design Education Summit (2020)

05. Bringing Peace (Circles) to (Design) Practice
07. Coffee Bean, Carrot, or Egg
08. Collaboration, Research, and Experiential Design in BFA Design Curriculum
12. Design for Complexity: Co-designing to address food insecurity with campus collaborators
13. Designing Cross-Cultural Awareness Through Typography
15. Designing the Interactive Design BFA: A principled approach towards pedagogy
16. Empathy, History, and Design Fiction-Making
18. Extending the Human Umwelt
19. Fresh Press Agricultural Fiber Paper Lab: the Designer as a Material Science Engineer
20. From Problem-Finding to Prototyping
22. Going the shortest distance
23. Graphic Design is White, How Might We Change That?
26. Human Centered Education: Aligning Design Student and Industry Needs
27. A Study on Learning Pressures for Undergraduate Design Students
28. Human Centered: Our Design for Social Impact Course
30. Human-Centered Design Meets Community Block Party
32. Incorporating User Centered Design Methodology and Emerging Technology into Pedagogical Practice
34. Liking the Guests: Disney Theme Parks and the Origins of Human-Centered Experiential Design
35a. Live Journey Mapping: A Lesson in Trust, Empathy, Creativity and Spontaneity
35b. Live Journey Mapping: A Lesson in Trust, Empathy, Creativity and Spontaneity
35c. Live Journey Mapping: A Lesson in Trust, Empathy, Creativity and Spontaneity
36. Lost on the Trail: Investigating Hiking Wayfinding & Trail Navigation within the National Parks
37. Mash Maker: Using improvisation-based design processes in student studios
39. Michael Graves Residence VR Project
40. Liberty Hall 360 VR Project
47. The Kids Are Alright with Voting
48. The Role of User Storytelling in Designing for the Near-Future
50. Transforming Graphic Design and Elevating Human Lives
52. Website Accessibility: Teaching Inclusivity With a Human-Centered Approach
54. [Panel] Teaching and Learning through Digital Archives
55. [Panel] Student Perspective on Research and Creative Endeavor, a year later…
56a. [Panel] Thoughts and Observations: Teaching American students from an Asian perspective
56b. [Panel] Thoughts and Observations: Teaching Asian students from an American perspective
56c. [Panel] Thoughts and Observations: Teaching in two institutions: Asian and American
58. [Workshop] First Day of Class with Figma Design
60. [Workshop] Creating Augmented Reality Experiences with Spark AR
61. [Workshop] Psychology for Designers: Evidence-based Design Thinking
P04. [Poster] Applying Multi-Dimensional Mixed Media in Advertisement
P05. [Poster] Bringing the Human Back to Center: Connecting Students to Place and Each Other
P06. [Poster] Creative Crosswalk Project: The Role of Public Art in the Community
P11. [Poster] Graphic Design Students as End-Users
P13. [Poster] Integrating Accessible Design into Graphic Design Curriculum
P16. [Poster] Sensory Design Analysis and Proposal: Café Diem – Ames, Iowa
P18. [Poster] The Future is Inclusive
P20. [Poster] To Publish or Not to Publish: A Fresh Look at Faculty Scholarship Requirements