Your UX portfolio website as a cereal box

Designing a UX Portfolio comes with its challenges and delights. The frustration of trying to tell the story is countered only by the satisfaction in succeeding. For many UXers, the stress is compounded by the fact that they may be unemployed and running off of fumes after completing an intensive Bootcamp.

Add to this the endless lists of “Top 10 case studies,” all complete with extremely varying designs, lengths, and deliverables, and it’s easy to find yourself awash in a sea of confusion, looking at articles like this as lighthouses in the distance.

In my own experience, I have had the same case study get feedback from multiple UX professionals and received conflicting advice as ridiculous as “this is a little short, I want to see more of your process” to “this is a little long, most people won’t read all of this.” I’ve also been told “redesign your deliverables for your case study,” and “use original deliverables, it shouldn’t look like these were made for the case study.”

So from this conflicting advice, I took away an important message — there are no standards, do the best you can.

Now, let me explain why your portfolio website (and I do recommend a complete website as opposed to the antiquated slide deck) is just like a…