| Date Due | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Week 2 | Website Analysis | 5% |
| Week 3 | Midterm Worksheet (8 Steps) | 5% |
| Week 3 | Responsive Mockup | 5% |
| Week 3 | Selection Exercise | 5% |
| Week 4 | Grid Exersize | 5% |
| First Quarter Assessment | 25% | |
| Week 5 | Responsive Wireframe | 5% |
| Week 5 | Code Portfolio Front Page | 5% |
| Week 5 | Quiz | |
| Week 6 | Typography Poster | 5% |
| Week 7 | Current Topic Website | 5% |
| Week 8 | Portfolio: Class Presentation | 5% |
| Second Quarter Assessment | 25% | |
| Week 9 | Final: Worksheet | 5% |
| Week 10 | Final: CSS3 Collateral | 5% |
| Week 11 | Final: CSS3 Animatic | 5% |
| Week 12 | Final: HTML/CSS | 5% |
| Week 12 | Final: Modular Navigation | 5% |
| Third Quarter Assessment | 25% | |
| Week 13 | Final: Multimedia | 5% |
| Week 13 | Final: Alternatives | 5% |
| Week 13 | Final: Peer Review | 5% |
| Week 14 | Final: Forms | 5% |
| Week 15 | Alternative | 5% |
| Final Quarter Assessment | 25% | |
| Week 15 | Final: Presentation | 10% |
| Two assignments dropped: | -10% | |
| Total: | 100% | |
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Conversation with AI
ME: Hello, I am a strategic design and management student at Parsons School of Design, minoring in data visualization. I am graduating spring of 2027, and hope to go into design consultancy/ UX design. To prepare, I plan on creating a website with my UI/UX projects, to showcase my designs. Can you help me strategize more about my future?
Copilot: Absolutely, and honestly you're at a perfect moment to start shaping the next 18 months with intention. You already have the core ingredients: Parsons training, a data-viz minor, UX/UI experience, and a clear direction toward design consultancy. What you need now is a strategic roadmap that turns all of that into a compelling professional identity.
Skill Development Roadmap
Here's a realistic, high-impact skill plan:
Now → December 2026
- Build website structure
- Refine 2 case studies
- Strengthen Figma + research skills
January → May 2027
- Complete portfolio
- Create a polished UX deck
- Start applying + networking
- Prepare for UX interviews
Summer 2027
- Land first UX/design strategy role
- Continue building your hybrid identity
One question that will help me tailor this even more: Would you prefer your portfolio to feel minimal and clean, bold and expressive, or strategic and professional?
ME: strategic and professional
Copilot: What Your Case Studies Should Look Like
Each project should read like a consultancy deck, not a student assignment.
Structure
- Problem framing — business context, user pain points
- Research insights — patterns, quotes, diagrams
- Strategic opportunity — what the research revealed
- Design principles — the logic behind your decisions
- UX flows + wireframes — clean, annotated
- Final UI — polished, consistent
- Impact — what changed, what improved, what metrics matter
Project types to include
- A systems-heavy UX project (journey maps, stakeholder maps)
- A data-visualization interface (dashboard, analytics tool)
- A service design or product strategy project
- A polished UI project showing craft
ME: What is some advice you could give me as someone who wants to blend marketing and UI/UX as a career path I want to pursue?
Copilot: Blending marketing + UI/UX is one of the smartest, most future-proof career moves you can make — especially for someone with your Parsons background, data-viz minor, and strategic design training. Companies love designers who understand both how things look and why people convert.
- Build a hybrid identity: Position yourself as a designer who combines UX thinking, marketing strategy, and data-driven decision-making to create experiences that convert.
- Use UX to strengthen marketing: Show how better flows, clearer interfaces, and user insights improve conversion rates, engagement, and retention.
- Create hybrid case studies: Projects like landing page redesigns, e-commerce optimizations, email-to-UX flows, and analytics dashboards prove you understand both behavior and business.
- Develop dual skill sets:
- Marketing: funnels, A/B testing, CRM, copywriting
- UX: prototyping, IA, usability testing
- Data: dashboards, segmentation, behavioral analytics
- Write strategic case studies: Frame each project around the marketing problem, user problem, insights, UX solution, and business impact.
- Network in both worlds: Connect with UX/product teams and marketing/growth teams — your hybrid skill set fits both.
- Target hybrid roles: Growth Designer, Product Designer (marketing focus), Conversion UX Designer, Customer Experience Designer, Design Strategist.