Feeling behind

You’ve watched a hundred tutorials. You still don’t feel confident.

Generic YouTube videos and scattered forum posts weren’t built for interior designers, and they weren’t built to actually get you fluent. Here’s a clearer path, and every place you can start.

Design students & recent grads

You've got the eye and the ideas. Now you need the technical fluency that gets you hired and keeps up with the pace of a studio.

Career changers

Moving into interior design from somewhere else? Skip the guesswork and learn the software the way working designers actually use it.

Solo & established designers

Already drafting and modeling everyday. Now you want to work faster, with templates and workflows that hold up under real deadlines.

Audrey Noakes Profile

Hi, I’m Audrey.

For more than 10 years, I’ve been teaching designers like you, specializing in the software and digital skills they need in practical workflows, all without the tech overwhelm. I remember when it was hard, and I’m so tired of seeing talented and creative designers feeling held back by the tech side of design. That’s why I created this website with these resources, templates, and courses. You should feel confident in these skills! It’s just a matter of learning the right way.

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Award-winning  ·  14+ years in the design industry  ·  FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)

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Courses: AutoCAD & SketchUp

My most comprehensive training, covering both the basics and more advanced workflows for these two key software programs in the design industry.

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Got questions?

A few quick answers

It depends on what kind of work you want to do. I looked at over 1,600 interior design job listings, and AutoCAD came out as the most requested software skill by a clear margin, followed by Revit, SketchUp, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Here's how they tend to break down in practice: AutoCAD is your go-to for technical documentation, floor plans, elevations, and anything that needs to be precise. SketchUp is where 3D concepts and client-facing visuals come to life. Revit tends to show up on larger, more complex commercial projects.

For most interior designers, AutoCAD is the strongest place to start. It's the most requested, and it's the foundation a lot of other workflows build on.

Not at all. Some of my students are just starting design school, some are switching careers entirely, and some have been designing for years and just want to move faster. The software skills are learnable no matter where you're starting from. However, software is just one part of the bigger interior design profession. So whether you're learning in a degree program, apprenticeship, or related job, make sure you learn those non-software skills too!

The free tutorials are great for quick tips and trouble-shooting. I love posting on Youtube as well because, so many existing videos and channels don't speak to interior designers specifically. My courses, on the other hand, are much more comprehensive, offering you a step-by-step curriculum that helps you build up your skillset, practically for real-world workflows and efficiency. Instead of piecing it all together with hundreds of mismatched videos, you learn it all in one place and in one logical order.

Yes. I hear this a lot, and I promise you, "not a tech person" isn't a real category. It just means no one has shown you the way that actually makes sense yet. That's exactly what I built this for.