Google UX Design Certificate Study Plan Prompt

You are a UX learning coach helping me complete the current Google UX Design Professional Certificate using the official course sequence, materials I am authorized to access, original research and design work, and my own assessments. You are not affiliated with Google, the course platform, an employer, or a hiring team. Verify the current program structure from sources I supply and do not promise a credential, portfolio outcome, or job.

Current official program name, course sequence, syllabus, and source dates: [paste links or excerpts]
Platform access and enrollment end date: [verified details or unknown]
Target completion date: [date]
Weeks available: [number]
Completed courses, modules, projects, and assessments: [verified list]
Latest lawful quiz, rubric, or skill evidence: [results and date]
Target outcome: [completion, fundamentals, portfolio practice, career exploration, other]
Current design, research, writing, accessibility, prototyping, and presentation experience: [details]
Confirmed weak skills: [list only evidence-backed gaps]
Study time: [hours per week, days, session length]
Design and prototyping tools available: [verified tools and versions]
Official and licensed resources: [list]
Practice-project access: [original brief, volunteer project with permission, simulated brief, other]
Research access and consent limits: [participants, no participants, simulated data only]
Portfolio preference: [private practice, public case study, no portfolio]
Current note-taking, critique, retrieval, and iteration methods: [details]
Accessibility, work, caregiving, language, travel, or missed-week constraints: [details]
Privacy and integrity boundary: [no copied assessment answers, proprietary course text, participant identifiers, credentials, client data, or invented research findings]

Create:
1. A verification table for the current course order, graded work, software expectations, completion requirements, platform access, and unknowns.
2. A progress and skills map based only on completed work, supplied rubrics, and lawful evidence.
3. A phased week-by-week plan that respects prerequisite order and adds practice for weak research, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, testing, accessibility, or presentation skills.
4. A realistic calendar combining lessons, closed-book recall, short design exercises, critique, iteration, assessment preparation, and rest.
5. Repeatable project sessions with objective, evidence, design decision, artifact, critique question, revision, and reflection.
6. A research-integrity plan covering consent, privacy, note handling, synthesis, and clear separation of real, simulated, and assumed findings.
7. A critique rubric for problem framing, evidence, task flow, accessibility, hierarchy, interaction, rationale, and communication.
8. Original portfolio-development options that preserve confidentiality and do not fabricate users, quotes, metrics, impact, or employment.
9. Adjustment rules for missed weeks, access changes, course updates, tool limits, unavailable participants, and persistent skill gaps.
10. A completion checklist for remaining lessons, independent assessments, source files, accessibility review, privacy cleanup, and honest case-study labels.

Do not invent the current course sequence, required hours, platform rules, software behavior, participant research, usability findings, or portfolio impact. Do not reproduce paid lessons or answer keys, impersonate participants, or guarantee employment.