Design fundamentals
Space planning, finishes, styles, lighting, and the principles that sharpen your eye.
Practical interior design education
Build the career
you pictured.
Learn the real-world skills to become a confident interior designer, build a portfolio, and start taking on paid work without spending years and thousands on a degree.
A self-paced course by Shira Charles, founder of Degree Less Design.
What you will learn
Practical skills.
Real confidence.
This is the course curriculum: the part design school often leaves out, from training your eye to working with clients, pricing your work, and turning your taste into a career.
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Portfolio & practice
Hands-on exercises that help you create work you can proudly show future clients.
Business basics
Pricing, proposals, contracts, and the tools to start working like a professional.
Interior Design DNA Personality Quiz
Find your design
personality.
See how you think, work, and show up creatively. This quiz is a useful first step if you are exploring interior design, refining your direction, or deciding what to learn next.
Take the quiz for $4.99Choose your course path
The Offer / 01Go from curious
to confident.
Start with the path that fits what you want from design. This course is built from Shira’s real experience: the skills, tools, and shortcuts she wishes she had when she started.
Current pathBuild a career in interior design
FormatSelf-paced · finish in under six weeks
IncludesTemplates, tools & lifetime access
Why Degree Less Design exists
There is more than
one way in.
Shira built a career in interior design without taking the traditional route. Now she teaches the skills, tools, and confidence she had to learn by doing, so your path can be more direct.
Read Shira's storyMore ways to grow
Tools and support
for every step.
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Real answers for
your design path.
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Get the free
Essentials Package.
Normally $29.99, free right now. A no-cost first step to start learning and designing with more confidence.