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UX Design Portfolio

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Delivery Options Online

This exit seminar for the Professional Program in User Experience (UX) Design helps you develop a UX design portfolio to present to future employers and clients in the UX field. Your portfolio must reflect your personal branding style and strengths and address your limitations and knowledge gaps. Your work is assessed with an eye toward improving, as well as editing and synthesizing design content with your existing body of work and uncovering the benefits of storytelling. The main goal of the class is to polish all of the pieces that are included in your final portfolio website and prepare you for your ensuing job search. You perform research to find where you fit into today's design marketplace and design your own self-branding materials (résumé, business cards, cover letter, reference sheet, logo design and many more).

Guest speakers, alumni and industry professionals share their stories, experiences and advice. We pair you one-on-one with UX designers and researchers to provide you with feedback about your portfolio. By the end of the semester, you will have a comprehensive portfolio website with high-quality projects.

Prerequisites:

You must either have completed all other courses in the Professional Program in UX Design, or be concurrently enrolled in your remaining courses.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives

  • Edit projects that were originated in other classes, by creating new pieces related to those initial ideas and concepts or also reduce the amount of content if needed
  • Design new projects if there is a lack of project quality and quantity
  • Organize artwork as online portfolio
  • Participate during project critiques 
  • Provide feedback and collaborate with other students for overall group improvement
  • Learn new outlets to display portfolio pieces online
  • Analyze, prioritize and sequence project tasks
  • Generate a résumé that reflects your most marketable skills and qualities
  • Recognize and adhere to copyright laws governing the use of emerging technology
  • Produce a self-branding package–logo, résumé, cover letter and business card
  • Communicate effectively with prospective employers and industry professionals
  • Generate a cover letter that helps the individual obtain job interviews
  • Discuss the relative effectiveness of various media for different communication purposes
  • Use the Internet to conduct career-related research
  • Evaluate personal and professional skills and interests relative to their application in possible career paths and projects

What You Learn

  • Branding oneself
  • Organizing content
  • Editing and synthesizing design content
  • Benefits of storytelling in UX design
  • Learn how to make job searches that are useful
  • Network with others
  • Put together a portfolio website that showcases great work
  • Interact with professional designers during class
  • Learn how to provide and receive critique from others Improve presentation skills
  • Expand and improve project outcomes

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. 

  • Lectures
  • Reading assignments
  • Quizzes at instructor’s discretion
  • Small-group activities
  • Homework assignments
  • Capstone project

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.

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Sections

Section 009

Mar 06 to May 22

Type: Live Online

Instructor:

  • Abdus Salam

Cost: $1,225.00

See section 009 Details

Type Live Online

Days

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Time

6:00PM to 9:00PM Pacific Time

Dates

Mar 06, 2023 to May 22, 2023

Location

Live Online

Schedule and Location

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Instructional Hours

36.0

Location

Live Online

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

2 semester units

Section Notes

Course meets Mar 06 to May 22

Enroll early to secure a space for this course. Enrollment will not be accepted after the second class meeting.

Type Live Online

Access classroom-style interactive learning from anywhere in the world! Attend scheduled online sessions with your instructor and classmates in addition to completing your coursework.

Live Online format allows you to take classes from anywhere with an internet connection. Learn more about this format.

Equipment

The following minimum recommendation for UX Design:

  • Apple MacBook or PC

    • 8 to16GB RAM

In order to take this course, student must have taken the 6 required courses in the program or be on track to complete their remaining required courses in the same semester.

Spring enrollment opens on October 17!

This course applies to the following programs:

Professional Program in User Experience (UX) Design

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Required Courses

  • Essentials of User Experience (UX) Design
  • Diagramming and Prototyping for UX
  • Visual Design Principles
  • User Research for UX
  • Information Architecture (IA) and Content Strategy
  • User-Interface (UI) Design

Electives

  • UX Design Portfolio
  • Qualitative Research: Design, Implementation and Methods
  • Quantitative UX Metrics and Research
  • Human-Centered Design for Data Visualization
  • Design Thinking and UX Strategy
  • Accessibility in UX Design
  • Service Design
  • Web Design With HTML5 and CSS3
  • Typography Fundamentals
  • Illustrator I
  • Photoshop I
  • InDesign
  • Branding

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-uxdesign@berkeley.edu | (510) 643-8916


Instructional Types

Live Online
Live Online courses provide an interactive learning experience with scheduled synchronous online sessions held via Zoom video conferencing (Pacific Time). Learn more about the Live Online format.
Online, Start Anytime
Continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. You have a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.
Online, Fixed Date
Enroll in this course by its start date and complete it by its specified end date. There are no live sessions, but plenty of opportunities to collaborate with your classmates and instructor.
Classroom
Take classes in-person at one of our buildings or partner locations.

English Language Proficiency Requirements

All of our courses are taught in English. If English is not your first language, please use the following test scores as guides in order to be successful:

  • TOEFL: 90
  • IELTS Academic Format: 7
  • DAAD: C1
  • TEM-4 or TEM-8: Level 70
  • Duolingo: 115

Note: You do not need to submit test scores.

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Berkeley, CA 94704-7000

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Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam is a senior product designer at Meta, supporting payments, financial services and Web3 products across the family of apps, i.e., Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Prior to that, he led product design at ViacomCBS, which spanned a diverse portfolio of leading consumer-facing media brands in tech news, games, entertainment and B2B–such as TV Guide, Download and CNET, to name a few. He has a background in telecom engineering and over 10 years of design experience working in diverse environments on enterprise and consumer facing digital products across health care, media, nonprofits, advertising and fintech industries. He’s passionate about diversity, and actively mentors newcomers in the UX field trying to get their first UX design job by helping them navigate the creation of a UX design portfolio, and those switching careers into UX.

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