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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: 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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Section ID:

196772

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: 4/3/2026
  • Early enrollment advised
  • No UCSD parking permit required
  • No visitors permitted
  • Prerequisite required

Schedule:

No information available at this time.
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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

My professional goal is simple - to make a positive impact. I challenge myself each day to learn something new and perform at the highest level.

I find technology fascinating! My career in project management and web design/UX/development is a rewarding one, allowing me to explore my creativity and solve technical challenges. Things are always changing, and that is what makes it exciting.

In the latest chapter of my career, I am working with customers and their NetSuite implementations, leading a talented team of functional and technical consultants who implement this powerful software solution and help business grow and become more efficient.

I also freelance and work with several companies on web and mobile projects.

Being an educator is also an important part of my career. I enjoy making a difference in the lives of those I teach. My greatest contribution to the education of my students is to demystify technical skills and give students the confidence to learn without fear.

Specialties: project management, user experience UX design, web development, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, SEO, social media, responsive design, mobile development, computer programming, flash development, engineering, design engineer, project management, teaching, curriculum development, graphic design, photoshop, illustrator, advertising and marketing, NetSuite, ERP.

My interests and passions are also an important part of my professional life. I am an avid sports enthusiast, playing soccer and also officiating soccer matches. And I am an avid animal lover, volunteering my time to numerous animal rescue organizations.

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