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Berkeley Global
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 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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Spring 2025 enrollment opens on October 21!