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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

Online
4.00 units
$795.00
Notes: 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. 
 

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User Experience (UX) Design

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Section ID:

188531

Class type:

Online Asynchronous.

This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

Textbooks:

No textbook required.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 4/4/2025
  • Early Enrollment Discount: $770 ($795 if enrolled after 3/3/2025)
  • Early enrollment advised
  • No UCSD parking permit required
  • No visitors permitted

Note:

This is an Online Asynchronous course. All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates. You will have access to your course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed, if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider.

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Instructor: Donna Sandsmark, M.S.

Donna Sandsmark, M.S.

Combines a background in engineering, programming, and design to create a learning environment that covers all aspects of web design

Donna Sandsmark teaches Web Design I: Principles & Techniques,  User Experience Design II and User Experience (UX) Portfolio for the User Experience (UX) Design certificate program. In addition, Donna teaches Visual Communications: Digital Illustration, Portfolio Development for the Graphic & Web Design Program, and the Graphic & Web Design Workshop for the Graphic & Web Design certificate program, along with the Front End Web Development Portfolio for the Front End Development certificate program. 

Donna combines a background in engineering, programming and design to create a learning environment that covers all aspects of web design. A lead instructor in the Web Design and Interactive Media program at The Art Institute, Sandsmark also works as a freelance developer creating websites, content management systems and mobile apps for companies nationwide. Sansdmark received a bachelor's in engineering and management from Penn State University and a master's in computer science from University of Southern California.

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