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User Experience (UX) Portfolio

ART-40641

User Experience (UX) Portfolio
10 Weeks | Prerequisite: Successful completion of the four (4) Core User Experience Design courses.

A strong UX portfolio is essential for showcasing your skills, illustrating your design thinking, and advancing your career in a competitive field. This UX Portfolio Course helps you refine your portfolio, resume, and branding while preparing for job opportunities through practical career strategies.

Your portfolio highlights your design process, problem-solving abilities, and ability to address user needs through research, prototyping, and usability testing. It also sets you apart, serving as a personal branding tool and a conversation starter during interviews. Maintaining a portfolio encourages continuous improvement, reflecting your growth as a designer.

In this course, you’ll finalize your portfolio, conduct an informational interview with a UX professional for real-world insights, and craft a resume and branding statement that make you stand out to employers.

What You'll Learn

  • Define and Refine Your Portfolio: Apply feedback to enhance and present a professional UX portfolio. Develop a clean, compelling online UX portfolio that showcases your skills and experience.
  • Create Personal Branding Materials: Craft a personal branding statement, logo, and business card that reflect your unique design identity.
  • Conduct Job Research: Analyze UX design roles and requirements to align your portfolio with industry standards.
  • Craft a Standout Resume: Design an original, impactful resume that highlights your skills and experience.
  • Gain Career Insights: Conduct an informational interview with a UX professional to receive valuable career advice.
  • Tailor Your Portfolio for Employers: Customize your portfolio layout and messaging to effectively engage potential employers.

Course Information

4.00 units
TBD
Notes: Quarters Offered: Spring and Fall.
Equipment/Software: Students will need a portfolio platform such as Wix, SquareSpace, Carbonmade, Adobe Portfolio, or another web host, prototyping software, OmniGraffle and Axure, and Adobe Creative Cloud. UCSD DES students are eligible for an Adobe Creative Cloud student discount.
Flexible Enrollment: This course is a Required Course for the User Experience (UX) Design Professional Certificate but is open to all students, even if you're not enrolled in the Certificate Program. Students must meet the prerequisites for this course. 
Academic Calendar: The Academic Calendar shows the open enrollment dates and term start dates for each quarter. Courses do not necessarily start on the first day of the term.

 

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This course applies to these programs

User Experience (UX) Design

Course sessions

Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5508 or unex-digital@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.