NVIDIA has created some certifications. These are NOT free but they are great to add to your list of certifications (aka LinkedIn). Adding to the Designer Toolkit but check out their certifications! https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/learn/certification/?ncid=ref-qr-621471

Excellent articles on the evolution of UX. https://medium.com/@dollyborade07/ui-ux-careers-are-collapsing-but-design-jobs-arent-dying-the-designers-who-adapt-will-stay-ahead-acd9e4a8d493 https://medium.com/@dollyborade07/how-ui-ux-designers-will-be-hired-beyond-2026-and-how-im-preparing-today-82f2e56736d3

Excellent article of tips and tricks for creating career security in an AI-Driven Design Industry https://medium.com/@dollyborade07/ui-ux-designers-im-turning-ai-into-my-biggest-career-advantage-f3b8297c2c18?sharedUserId=uxdacademy

Reading and watching this Medium article and YouTube video. These are the skills you need to set yourself apart. Add these to your 2nd Brain if you made one. If not, drop these links into your Claude, along with your case study CLAUDE.md file, and help tailor your case studies to align with these concepts. https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/ai-wont-replace-designers-but-it-is-changing-what-designers-get-paid-for-1f030abcfecd

Building Your Second Brain I want to put something in your hands this week that I genuinely believe is one of the highest-leverage things you can build right now. A second brain — an AI-powered knowledge base that reads everything you feed it once, then builds and maintains a living, interconnected library of your knowledge for you. You stop re-explaining yourself to AI. It already knows your work, your projects, your thinking — and it gets smarter every time you add to it. This is Andrej Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" idea, and here's why it matters for you specifically. 🌍 Why this matters as you transition into the workforce The job market isn't rewarding people who can use AI. Everybody can open a chatbot. It's rewarding people who can architect with it — who build systems rather than ask one-off questions. That's the whole difference between "a prompt engineer who asks ChatGPT for code" and "a system designer who uses AI as a force multiplier." One is replaceable. The other gets hired. When you build your own second brain, three things happen: 🧩 You demonstrate AI fluency — the exact skill every forward-looking employer is screening for. You don't just talk about it; you show it. 📈 Your knowledge compounds. Every note, transcript, and lesson you add makes the whole thing more valuable. That's an asset that grows while you sleep. 🎯 You stand out. Most people consume AI. You'll be one of the few who design with it. That's the portfolio piece and the interview story. This isn't theory. I built mine over the last few days, and it now holds 600+ pages of my entire body of work — and I can talk to it from Slack like a coworker. 🛠️ What you're building (and the part I want you to hear) Three pieces: 1. Obsidian — a free app that holds your knowledge as simple text files. This is your "vault." 2. Claude — the AI that reads your stuff and builds & maintains the wiki for you. You barely touch it; the AI does the bookkeeping humans always abandon. 3. An agent (connected through Slack or Telegram) — so you can ask your second brain anything, from anywhere, anytime. Mine's named Blake. He lives in my team channel and answers from my brain 24/7.