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Strengthen Your UX Design Portfolio to Unlock Opportunities
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Strengthen Your UX Design Portfolio to Unlock Opportunities

Essential Guide for Product/ UX Designers to Build a Strong Portfolio That Gets you Hired
Created byJulie Stanescu
Last updated 1/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Create a portfolio that has a solid process and strong projects.
  • Learn thinking frameworks and strategies that you can apply right away.
  • Understand how to think about your portfolio holistically and how to use it as a hook to connect with the people you'd like to work with.
  • Understand how to tell a great story about yourself/ your projects / and your skills.

Course content

3 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 4m total length

  • Welcome!1:42

    Julie, a product designer, guides you through a framework to rethink and test your portfolio in two to five days, showing how to leverage your existing skills to unlock opportunities.

  • Understand | How might we connect past experience with our future design role1:53

    Identify gaps and define problems to connect past experience with your future design role, using a framework that maps skills, improvements, and audience needs to strengthen your portfolio.

  • Understand | The Difference between Skills vs Strengths vs Tools1:56

    Clarify difference between skills, strengths, and tools to craft a portfolio that reflects personality, noting skills can be taught, strengths develop, and tools are not skills but enable goal achievement.

  • Understand | How to Gain More Clarity on the Skills You Have?3:54

    Inventory your skills, gather peer feedback, and map strengths and improvements into a focused design profile that highlights interaction design expertise with growth in visual design, research, and design systems.

  • Understand | The Importance of Your Strengths & Weaknesses2:58

    Identify your strengths and three areas for improvement to guide your ux design portfolio. Build awareness through feedback from others and plan a two-year growth path.

  • Understand | What Kind of Design Opportunities Should I Look For?2:37

    Clarify your goal by defining the design work you love, the next opportunities you seek, and a smart, time-bound plan to visualize your role two years from now.

  • Assignment: Create Your Canvas0:11
  • Understand | What is Your Target Audience Looking for?5:04

    Align your user experience design portfolio with your target audience by researching their needs, tailoring your skills to their goals, and building trust through interviews, mentors, and hiring managers.

  • Assignment: Analyze job descriptions0:31

Requirements

  • Basic to intermediate knowledge of UX and Interaction Design, although not required.
  • Having a portfolio helps, but a desire to learn is just as important.

Description

In this course you will learn a framework that you can use to craft and test your portfolio in 2-5 days. The course helps you decide which information to include and which one to leave out from your portfolio. But I'm also teaching you strategies and techniques on how you can come up with your own creative and strategic ideas. 

  1. First we'll start by understanding where you are and where you want to go.  We’re going to look at how you can utilize a mix of existing skills, strengths, critical thinking to bridge the gap between where you are, and where you want to grow.

  2. Then, we’ll analyze what are the building blocks of a great portfolio, giving you a clear perspective on what matters for a project in a portfolio, and why.

  3. Finally, we’re going to send that portfolio out there for critique. I'm going to give you an inside look into my techniques, methods, and strategies on how to connect with design experts and mentors to get feedback and iterate your portfolio to the next level.

By the end of this course you have created a strong portfolio that has solid projects, and a clear perspective on how to unlock opportunities faster.

It’s going to be a lot of fun! So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner designers who aspire to or work in this fascinating area of UX / product design. You may be a design student, or even someone who transitioned from another field, looking for guidance on how to break into the space as a Product Designer.

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