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Your portfolios are fucking boring.
Sincerely, every design hiring manager out there
We are designers.
We are supposedly the creatives that will help solve problems with creativity. We are the jack-of-all-trades; adaptable and witty, ready to take on any task.
And yet, we can’t make unique portfolios even to save our lives.
“What is up with all these cookie cutter portfolios?”
I lamented in my head. I was reviewing maybe my 12th junior bootcamp graduate portfolio that day and needless to say, I wasn’t having a good time.
While I am happy to complete the first dozen of portfolio reviews for my students, frustration swept over me knowing that all in that dozen should re-do their portfolios.
I am a junior UX designer passionate about solving problems!
What problems?
I created a persona to reflect the target users of the application.
For what?
Here is a prototype that shows you the solution flow.
No interaction design?
I quit being a bootcamp mentor that same week.
The art of storytelling is lost to the new generation of designers. Design has always been an extremely competitive industry. It was back in the days of Chris Do from The Futur, and it still is in our modern world of user experience design.
Same shit, different story.
Finding a job you qualify to apply for is one of the greatest challenges designers face today —And the next big challenge is actually getting that job.
The main focus of a lot of designers today is honing their technical skillsets. I get it; skills matter and you are unlikely to be hired if you can’t even use Figma properly. But you know what else matters? Being able to sell yourself.
Here’s why.
It is no secret how you do your work.
UX design is one of the most accessible design industries available in the market today. Anyone can come in and learn the core skillsets to be a user experience…
