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Building a UX Portfolio
Lauren Rosenthal provides advice on building a UX portfolio. She recommends including 3-4 projects presented in a problem, action, result format, with 3-6 deliverables per project spanning at least two platforms. The portfolio should demonstrate the user-centered design process and have a polished, preferably responsive website. Good portfolios show real work and process through case studies from personas to final design.
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Building a UX Portfolio
- 1. Building a UXPortfolio Lauren Rosenthal lamonica.lauren@gmail.com (415) 902-3191
- 2. Agenda ✴ About me ✴Roles out there ✴ What companies want to see ✴ The right portfolio ✴ Good portfolios
- 3. Hi, I’m Lauren ✴Product Manager with 12 years of experience working on digital products ✴ Freelance user experience designer ✴ Previously helped teach UX at General Assembly
- 4. What I know Visual Sketching AdobeCS UX Information architecture User centered design User testing Game systems Tech HTML / CSS jQuery mobile Managing digital products Business Product Ownership Lean Startup MBA Meh at data science My skills (relative!) 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz
- 5. UX roles Anne, UX Researcher 0 1 2 3 VisualUX Tech Biz Michael, UX Designer 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz Jess, UX/UI or IXD 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz
- 6. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small
- 7. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Matrix organizations
- 8. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Big design firms Matrix organizations
- 9. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 10. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Small design firms 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 11. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 12. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Small + medium startups 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 13. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 14. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Big startups 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 15. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small Consulting groups Big startups 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 16. Who hires UXdesigners? Want specialistsWant generalists Big Small 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz
- 17. Your portfolio is online showsuser centered design process includes 3 to 4 projects in PAR (problem, action, result) format has 3 to 6 deliverables per project spans at least two platforms has polish—amount depends on target company
- 18. is online (best toworst, but all OK) 1. Responsive, custom website with good story and great polish 2. Simple HTML custom site with good story 3. Wordpress/Squarespace 4. Dribbble 5. Behance
- 19. shows user centereddesign process User research Personas User journey/ Scenario Information Architecture Navigation schema Concept sketches Prototype Final visual design Iteration Wireframes Prototype
- 20. includes 3 to4 projects in PAR format 1. Your best work only. Ask a friend. 2. Work should be in problem / action / result format. 3. Call out your role in the project—don’t enhance the truth. 4. Student work is fine if it looks professional and shows your process. 5. Try to get at least one real client. This is easy if you do some free work, even if it’s just a persona project.
- 21. has 3 to6 deliverables per project
- 22. spans at leasttwo platforms Web App Mobile Web
- 23. has polish (amountdepends) 0 1 2 3 Visual UX Tech Biz client services
- 24. How to builda portfolio ✴ Do a persona project for a startup ✴ Sketch daily and take pictures of your sketches ✴ Design a better version of your favorite app ✴ Go to UX finishing school
- 25. Good portfolios ✴ MichaelBush ✴ Jess Hamilton ✴ Anne Diaz (UX researcher) ✴ Aynne Valencia (Director)
- 26. Thank you Feel freeto contact me! lamonica.lauren@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/laurenlamonica/