Build a Standout UX/UI Portfolio: Land Your Dream Job
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited when you discover the secret to a portfolio that fast-tracks your way to job offers. Did you know most hiring managers decide on your application in just 7.4 seconds? In today's competitive job market, first impressions are everything.
Learn to build a career where you fulfill your potential and earn a salary that reflects your true value. Your design portfolio is your ultimate advocate. It speaks for you when you're not in the room. In this course, you'll get real-world insider insights from an expert who's reviewed thousands of portfolios. Take the course and build the career you're truly meant for.
Make yourself invaluable when you learn how to hook hiring managers with your problem-solving mindset, user-centered design approach, and business acumen. We know how frustrating it is to apply for job after job with no response. This User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) portfolio course gives you the skills to finally stand out from the pack. Whether you're new to design or already experienced, you'll turn your past work experiences into portfolio gold and create a portfolio they love! No matter your background, it's easier than you think.
Gain confidence and credibility with our step-by-step blueprint for a portfolio that gets you hired faster—into a role where you'll fulfill your purpose and increase your salary potential. Through hands-on projects and ready-to-use downloadable templates, you'll develop a winning portfolio strategy, write attention-grabbing hooks, present your portfolio with confidence, and master the first impression formula. You'll walk away with a pitch-ready UX/UI design portfolio you can use to land your dream job.
It's Easy to Fast-Track Your Career with the World's Best Experts
Master complex skills effortlessly with proven best practices and toolkits directly from the world's top design experts. Meet your expert for this course:
Morgane Peng: Designer, speaker, mentor, and writer who serves as Director and Head of Design at Societe Generale CIB.
Gain an Industry-Recognized UX Course Certificate
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Why Learn to Create a UX/UI Portfolio?
Build a Standout UX/UI Portfolio falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
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UX design builds on your core human strengths such as emotional intelligence, deep human understanding, critical thinking, intuition, and imagination.
AI can't replicate your uniquely human ability to design for real emotions and needs such as joy, comfort, curiosity, safety, and a sense of belonging. These deeply human insights are your superpowers. With UX design skills, you'll turn them into products and experiences people truly love. You become irreplaceable, confident and in demand.
And yes, we'll also show you how to use AI to accelerate your results.
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Tired of feeling undervalued, anxious, or trapped in your career? UX design skills open doors to freedom, flexibility, remote work, and a career you're excited about—without starting from scratch.
Stop wondering if you could be more. Start realizing your full potential today.
UX Design is Booming: Accelerate Your Career to Higher Salaries and Impact Across All Jobs and Industries
Salaries for people with design skills are soaring, often surpassing $200K in cities like San Francisco, and job growth is strong (13% globally). Why? Because companies thrive when their users are happy. Companies that invest in great design outperform the S&P 500 Index by a whopping 228%.
Design a Life You Love
Great design is all about helping people meet their needs and achieve their goals through intuitive, meaningful, and delightful experiences. Skills in design will empower you to create experiences and products that make people's lives easier and more fulfilling. And when people love what you create, your business thrives, and your salary potential grows. You get the ultimate double win:
You'll feel deeply fulfilled by designing experiences and products people love.
You'll be financially rewarded for your real-world impact.
Course Overview: What You'll Master
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 11 hours 38 mins spread over 3 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (37 mins)
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0.2: Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (2 mins)
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0.3: How to Get Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.4: Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (2 mins)
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0.6: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses from IxDF (21 mins)
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0.7: Mandatory vs Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.8: Learn Smarter: The Perfect Mix of Video and Text (6 mins)
Lesson 1: Attract Success: Your Portfolio is the Key to Design Your Dream Career
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1.1: Welcome to Build a Standout UX/UI Portfolio: Land Your Dream Job (17 mins)
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1.2: Design Your Career Success: Why Your Portfolio Matters More Than Ever (19 mins)
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1.3: Attract Jobs at Every Career Stage! How to Tailor Your Portfolio (19 mins)
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1.4: 7 Design Portfolio Mistakes That Are Costing You Jobs! And How to Fix Them (44 mins)
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1.5: Conversations: Mistakes Make Us Masters! Share Your Biggest Mistake and How You Conquered It (7 mins)
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1.6: Beyond Beauty: What a Content-Driven Portfolio Is and Why It's a Gamechanger (16 mins)
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1.7: More than the Final Product: Showcase Your Design Process to Impress Hiring Managers (16 mins)
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1.8: Build Your Portfolio: Build a Winning Portfolio Strategy (12 mins)
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1.9: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 2: Hook Hiring Managers' Attention with Your Design Portfolio
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2.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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2.2: Grab Hiring Managers’ Attention with Your Design Portfolio Right From the Start (18 mins)
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2.3: Craft an “About Me” Section that Gets You Noticed (23 mins)
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2.4: Turn Your Non-Design Experience into Design Portfolio Gold (43 mins)
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2.5: Stand Out in a Competitive Market: Land Your Dream Job (13 mins)
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2.6: Conversations: Peer Power! Get Feedback to Make Your Portfolio Stand Out (7 mins)
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2.7: Build Your Portfolio: Craft a Portfolio Introduction that Makes Viewers Say "Tell Me More!" (7 mins)
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2.8: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 3: How to Make Your Case Studies Stand Out and Tell Your Story
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3.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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3.2: Tell Your Story: Transform Your Case Studies into Powerful Design Narratives (19 mins)
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3.3: The First Impression Formula: Write Case Study Intros That Hook Hiring Managers (16 mins)
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3.4: User Research: Show Hiring Managers You Understand Users (20 mins)
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3.5: Tell Your Design Story with Powerful Sketches and Wireframes (19 mins)
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3.6: Conversations: Share, Refine and Get Feedback—The Power of Clean Sketches in Your Case Studies (7 mins)
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3.7: From Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi: Showcase Your Design Evolution with Prototypes and Iterations (19 mins)
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3.8: Keep it Confidential: How to Showcase Your NDA-Protected Design Work (18 mins)
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3.9: Build Your Portfolio: Craft Case Studies that Get You Invited to an Interview for Your Dream Job (8 mins)
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3.10: Congratulations and Recap (6 mins)
Lesson 4: Land Your Dream Job with a Standout Portfolio
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4.1: Welcome and Introduction (2 mins)
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4.2: Match Your Design Portfolio Tool to Your Skills and Goals: Website vs. PDF vs. Slideshow (19 mins)
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4.3: Conversations: Tool Time! Share Your Tool Wins, Fails and Lessons Learned (7 mins)
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4.4: Design with Intent: Craft Your Portfolio with Visual Storytelling Tools (21 mins)
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4.5: Missed Clicks, Missed Job Opportunities: Optimize Your Portfolio Navigation (16 mins)
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4.6: Design a Landing Page That Gets You an Interview (16 mins)
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4.7: Show, Don't Tell: Design UX Case Studies that Get You Hired (19 mins)
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4.8: Clickable or Classic? Choose the Right Interactivity Level for Your Portfolio (16 mins)
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4.9: Land Your Dream Job with Your Portfolio Presentation (42 mins)
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4.10: Land That Job: What Top Design Leaders Really Look for in a Portfolio (34 mins)
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4.11: Build Your Portfolio: Get Ready to Land Your Dream Job with Your Presentation (9 mins)
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4.12: Congratulations and Recap (5 mins)
Lesson 5: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Rachel Gonçalves, United States
“She was right on point on practical observations and pinpoints real world scenarios. Whenever I had a question I thought was too specific she addressed it.”

Nico De Backer, Switzerland
“Very clear in explanations and good practical references and examples.”

Santhosh Raj, India
“Steady tone and showing real examples of different portfolios, how it worked as best, or why it didn't look good.”
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