Design fundamentals
Space planning, finishes, styles, lighting, and the principles that sharpen your eye.
Practical interior design education
Build the career
you pictured.
Learn practical interior design skills, build a portfolio & explore the business side as you plan your next steps in design.
A self-paced course by Shira Charles, founder of Degree Less Design.
What you will learn
Practical skills.
Real confidence.
Explore the practical side of design, from training your eye to working with clients, pricing your work & applying your taste to real projects.
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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.
Beyond theory
Design is a hands-on craft.
You will learn to work with real materials, finishes, and details the way a working designer actually does, not just read about them in theory.
See what you'll learnInterior 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 $4.99The self-paced course
The Offer / 01Go from curious
to confident.
This course is built from Shira’s real experience: the skills, tools, and shortcuts she wishes she had when she started.
What it isExplore a career in interior design
FormatSelf-paced · revisit anytime
IncludesLessons, templates & 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 shares the skills & tools she learned by doing, so you can shape your own path with practical guidance.
Read Shira's storyWhat students say
Real words from
real students.
If there is anyone in the world of interior design that I would trust more than anything, it would be Shira and her Degree-Less Design course. Everything you would learn in school, plus more, is offered in this course. With the knowledge I have now, I'm designing spaces to grow my portfolio.
Elizabeth MetznerDegree-Less Design student
I feel more confident than ever in my ability to move forward in my design career. The knowledge and skills I've gained have given me both the clarity and the motivation to take the next steps. I can't thank you enough.
Charmaine DavisCourse graduate
I just finished the course and learned so much that I probably never would have learned in school. Everything was so well written, and you explained it all so well.
Liz M.Degree-Less Design student
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Tools and support
for every step.
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your design path.
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Essentials Resource Guide.
A free, curated starting point for books, software, portfolio ideas & introductory business topics.