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The best projects for building real, usable skills.

Every project below is designed to teach you the way real work actually feels — not a demo, a genuine deliverable you could hand to a client or employer. Browse by skill, see exactly what you’d build, and download a full brief for any project that interests you.

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Graphic Design

Beginner

Coffee Shop Brand Identity

A full identity build — logo, colour palette and packaging mockups for a boutique coffee brand.

2 weeks Illustrator, Canva
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The brief was to design a complete visual identity for a boutique coffee shop — from logo concept through to real-world packaging application. Work through three logo directions before landing on a final mark, then build a full brand board covering colour, typography and packaging.

Skills Covered
Logo DesignColour TheoryTypographyPackaging Mockups
Beginner

Social Media Campaign Kit

A ten-post Instagram carousel and story kit for a real local business launch.

10 days Canva, Figma
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A cohesive set of social posts, stories and a highlight-cover kit designed around one consistent visual system, built to be reused month over month by a small business.

Skills Covered
Social DesignVisual ConsistencyLayout Systems

Data Analytics

Intermediate

Sales Performance Dashboard

A full interactive dashboard tracking revenue, regions and top products from raw sales data.

2 weeks Power BI, Excel
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Starting from a messy raw sales export, clean the dataset, build relationships between tables, and design an interactive Power BI dashboard a manager could actually use day to day.

Skills Covered
Data CleaningPower BIDashboardsReporting
Intermediate

Customer Database Query Set

A set of SQL queries answering real business questions from a sample customer database.

10 days SQL
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Working from a sample customer database, write joins, filters and aggregate queries to answer questions like “who are our top 10 repeat customers” and “which region underperforms.”

Skills Covered
SQL BasicsJoins & FiltersBusiness Questions

Digital Marketing & SEO

Intermediate

Local Business SEO Audit

A full technical and content audit for a local business website, with a prioritised fix list.

2 weeks Search Console
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Audit a real small-business website for on-page SEO issues — missing meta descriptions, slow pages, weak keyword targeting — then deliver a prioritised action plan the owner could actually follow.

Skills Covered
SEO AuditsKeyword ResearchSite Speed
Beginner

30-Day Content Calendar

A full month of planned social content, captions and posting schedule for a growing brand.

1 week Meta Business Suite
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Build a real 30-day content calendar including post themes, captions and hashtag strategy, then schedule it in Meta Business Suite as it would run for an actual client.

Skills Covered
Content PlanningScheduling ToolsCaption Writing

Copywriting

Beginner

Landing Page Sales Copy

Full landing page copy — headline, benefits, objection handling and call to action.

1 week Google Docs
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Write complete sales copy for a product landing page from scratch — headline testing, benefit-led body copy, objection handling and a closing call to action, following a proven persuasive structure.

Skills Covered
Sales CopyHeadlinesPersuasive Structure
Intermediate

Email Welcome Sequence

A 5-email welcome series for new subscribers, from first hello to first offer.

10 days Mailchimp
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Map and write a full five-email welcome sequence for a new subscriber list, covering the first introduction, value-building emails, and a soft first offer — plus subject line testing.

Skills Covered
Email MarketingSubject LinesSequencing

Microsoft Office

Beginner

Business Pitch Deck

A polished 12-slide investor pitch deck built from a rough business idea outline.

1 week PowerPoint
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Take a rough business idea and structure it into a clear, professional 12-slide pitch deck — problem, solution, market, business model and ask — with consistent, clean slide design throughout.

Skills Covered
PowerPoint DesignBusiness StructurePresentation Skills
Beginner

Monthly Budget Tracker

A working Excel budget tracker with formulas, charts and automatic totals.

3 days Excel
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Build a real monthly budget tracker in Excel — income, expenses, category breakdowns and automatic totals — with a simple chart summarising the month at a glance.

Skills Covered
Excel FormulasChartsBudgeting Logic

Project Management

Intermediate

Product Launch Project Plan

A full project plan and task board for a fictional product launch, start to finish.

2 weeks Trello, Sheets
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Build a complete project plan for a fictional product launch — task breakdown, timeline, dependencies and a live Trello board — practicing how to keep a real project on track from kickoff to delivery.

Skills Covered
Project PlanningTask BoardsTimelines
Beginner

Team Workflow System

Design a repeatable workflow system a small team could use to manage ongoing client work.

1 week Trello, Notion
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Design a clear, repeatable workflow — stages, ownership, hand-offs — that a small team could actually adopt to manage a steady stream of client work without things falling through the cracks.

Skills Covered
Workflow DesignTeam CoordinationProcess Documentation

Student Experiences

Real progress, in their own words

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Before joining, I had no design skills. Now I confidently create social media graphics and client branding projects.

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KevinGraphic Design Student
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Before this training, I didn’t understand digital marketing clearly. Now I can build content strategies, improve SEO, and manage campaigns.

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EricDigital Marketing Student
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Learning data analytics helped me organize information, build dashboards, and solve real business problems with confidence.

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DianeData Analytics Student

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