Huke88

Online video tutorials for design and office software

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Can the time spent watching short videos be used to learn a design skill?

Official website: https://huke88.com/

Forty minutes on the commute, two hours curled up on the sofa at the weekend — if these fragments of time were spent watching tutorial videos, how much skill could you accumulate in a year? Huke88‘s answer: enough to take you from complete beginner to independently finishing your own work. Founded in 2016, this online self-learning education platform focuses on building a high-quality, high-definition video teaching system. In just a few years it has attracted nearly ten million users and become an influential brand in China’s design learning community.

Compared with offline training classes that often cost upwards of ten thousand yuan, Huke88 takes a lighter path. With democratising high-end design as its core philosophy, it champions the idea of “learn well, learn affordably, learn anytime, anywhere, as you wish”, so that ordinary people can systematically master design skills without quitting their jobs to study full time or paying a large tuition fee in one go.

Case-based short videos: one lesson solves one specific problem

Huke88’s teaching format is distinctive — rather than lengthy theoretical build-ups, it uses case-based short video teaching. Each lesson is built around a small, hands-on case: it might be recreating a poster’s layout, adjusting the colour tone of a photo, or practising some linework. Users follow the video step by step, and finishing one case means genuinely mastering one point of knowledge — the sense of achievement is direct and concrete.

What’s rarer still, these tutorials are all designed around real scenarios, so what you learn can be applied straight to your own work and projects. The instructors also weave their everyday design insights into the courses, explaining the logic behind each step and helping learners understand “why it’s done this way” rather than merely memorising “how it’s done”. Teaching the reasons behind the actions is exactly what is scarcest on the self-taught path.

Six sections covering the full journey: find the right fit for your goals

The first time you open Huke88, the sheer size of the course library may surprise you. The platform’s content spans six major sections, with learning paths from hobby building to career advancement — pick according to your own goals:

• Want to start a design career: begin with the software basics courses to get a firm grip on the fundamental operations, then move into the design tutorials section, where practical directions such as typography and poster design offer cases close to real working scenarios;
• Fond of hand drawing and illustration: the drawing & illustration section runs from line practice all the way to creating complete works, serving everyone from hand-drawing hobbyists to advanced learners;
• Keen on photography and want better shots: the photography & retouching courses teach post-processing step by step, solving the common frustration of “taken the shot but can’t edit it”;
• Want to embrace new media: the internet operations section stays close to industry reality and is a popular skills library for the new media era;
• Simply want to work more efficiently: the office & workplace section covers office software and workplace skills, benefiting office workers outside design roles too.

Users are completely free to plan their learning around their own industry and interests. A little progress each day adds up, and a complete knowledge system slowly takes shape, lesson by lesson.

Free or membership? Costs and devices explained in one go

Dual-track model: learn long term even on a limited budget

On pricing, Huke88 runs a dual-track “free + membership” model, which is very friendly to learners on a budget. Free users can study one lesson a day. It doesn’t sound like much, but kept up over time it amounts to more than three hundred lessons a year — enough to systematically master quite a few skills. If you want to speed up or make a short intensive push, the VIP membership lifts the one-lesson-a-day limit and lets you learn all member courses across the site, ideal for learners who are short on time but clear about their goals.

Four clients, switch learning scenarios at will

Devices are never a barrier. Huke88 currently offers several clients, including iOS, Android, Windows and web versions, seamlessly linking phone, tablet and computer: watch a short video tutorial on your phone during the commute, then open your computer at your desk to work through the case hands-on. Fragmented time is put to full use and the pace of learning is entirely under your control — that is the key to making “learn anytime, anywhere, as you wish” a reality.

Common questions: the learners who benefit most

Judging by the platform’s content features and user base, the following groups tend to see the clearest gains on Huke88:

1. Design enthusiasts starting from scratch: case-based short videos have a low entry barrier; starting with software basics, you build a knowledge framework step by step, with no fear of getting lost;
2. Designers who already have some foundation: specialist courses such as typography and poster design can fill weak spots and widen your skill boundaries;
3. Professionals looking to switch careers or build a side income: the internet operations and office & workplace sections are closely tied to real work, so you can use what you learn immediately;
4. Students and office workers with fragmented schedules: the one free lesson a day setup matches the habit of using scattered pockets of time perfectly.

If you’re still undecided, try the free quota for a few days to feel whether the rhythm of case-based teaching suits you, then decide whether to upgrade to VIP. There are no shortcuts in the craft of design, but with the right tools and methods, every step along the way will feel surer.