DESIGN X405.4
This capstone course guides students in creating a professional UX design portfolio for career advancement or graduate program applications. The portfolio will reflect your personal brand, highlight your strengths, and address areas for growth. The course emphasizes refining, editing, and synthesizing your design work, focusing on storytelling to make projects more engaging and meaningful.
You will build a cohesive portfolio website by transforming 3-4 projects from previous coursework or freelance work into detailed case studies. You’ll also conduct research to understand today’s design landscape while developing personal branding materials such as a résumé, business card, cover letter, reference sheet, and custom logo.
Throughout the course, you’ll gain insights from the instructor, guest speakers, alumni, and industry experts. You will also receive personalized feedback from experienced UX designers and researchers. By the end of the semester, you’ll have a polished, comprehensive portfolio website that effectively showcases your projects.
Prerequisites:
Completion of all prior courses in the Professional Program in UX Design, or concurrent enrollment in your remaining courses.
Completion of four comprehensive UX projects if you are not a current student but want to build your UX portfolio.
Course Objectives
What You Learn
How You Learn
We are online! All of the design classes are conducted online and include video classes, mentor-led learning and peer-to-peer support through our student online platform, Canvas.
Is This Course Right for You?
At the conclusion of this course, you will have developed a signature style through critical editing of your portfolio. You will be selectively critical in assessing your own work and establish a direction independently for the design field. Our experienced instructors provide practical information, leverage their UX design portfolio skills and monitor your development along with peer-to-peer support on our student online platform.
Fall 2025 enrollment opens on June 16!
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