How To Build A World-Class Design Portfolio. I’ve reviewed thousands of designer portfolios over the past 10 years as a former design lead at Facebook and now as the cofounder of the investing and mentoring network Designer Fund. Beautiful shots of your work might've carried you into an interview years ago, but today, design managers at top startups are looking for more. Here are tips for building a great portfolio site based on feedback from our partners at Bridge, a design education program that connects designers and startups: 1.
Quality over Quantity It’s much better for you to go deeper on a few projects than go shallow on many projects. An example of going deep on a high-quality project is the Pinterest Creative Team’s deep dive into Place Pins. 2. Don’t be afraid to write (a lot) about your work, talking about the goals, context, constraints, and your thought process. Make sure to include the following information for each project where appropriate: Project Background: Set the context for the project. 3. 4. 5. 6. — Adding portfolios and presentations to your LinkedIn Profile. At Issuu, our goal is to put your publications in front of as many readers as possible. With almost 85 million readers a month around the globe and growing, we give you more opportunities with every passing day.
Today, we’re happy to introduce a whole new way to reach your audience: LinkedIn. Now, you can enhance your LinkedIn profile by embedding your portfolio or publication directly into your profile. Anyone viewing your profile will be able to enjoy it as if they were reading it on Issuu. By adding an Issuu publication to your LinkedIn Profile, you can showcase: portfoliosresumescase studiesphoto journalswork samplesprofessional magazines Want to share your latest engineering mockups and architecture drafts? The process for embedding your Issuu publication on LinkedIn is quick and easy. 1. 2. 10 Inspiring Portfolio Websites. Every designer needs to market themselves, and today we are showing you a few designers who do an exceptional job showcasing their work.
What makes these designer portfolios stand out is their incredible ability to show off their awesome skills and present their work in a fun and engaging way. Illustrator and Designer Abby Putinski Abby shows off what she can really do with illustrations on her personal website. She uses her incredible talent to show her creative hub in San Francisco, takes you on a tour of her portfolio (which you can download) and provides her resume for your viewing pleasure. Art & Creative Director Jane Finnesand Jane's site is an easy to use and beautifully designed portfolio that incorporates and 'about me' section along with her various projects and meaningful quotes and ideas.
Designer Risa Rodil Risa's website is absolutely incredible, not only did she design it herself (obviously), but it's just so incredible! CG Artist Gustavo Groppo Rype Arts Ryan Weaver Jen Stark. The $10,000 Design Degree. Design is the industry for people who want to remake the world, so rethinking your education could be a natural way in. Don't believe me? Ask a successful designer, Karen Cheng. "I wanted to change careers and become a designer, but I didn’t have four years and $100,000 to go back to school. So I decided to teach myself.
At first, I had a lot of doubts about whether someone could teach themselves well enough to get a job. Design fields are emergent and diverse--there's user experience, product design, interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, to name a few--but they share a respect for process and practice, which makes them more than usually open to the new modes of learning.
While there are some excellent, highly innovative design schools out there, it's equally possible to enter the profession with nothing more than a killer portfolio or a Kickstarter project. Online Lynda.com has no tests, no social platform, no certifications. Offline and Pop-up Read more: Coroflot — Design Jobs & Portfolios. Login. Online Portfolios on the Behance Network. 50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs. Advertisement Design portfolios come in various forms. Traditionally, they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Today, many designers take advantage of the Internet to publish and showcase their work via their online portfolios. Having your work displayed online removes the geographical restraints that traditional portfolios impose on you.
With many portfolios online, it’s often hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. It takes a creative design to grab the user’s attention long enough for him or her to enjoy sifting through your work. Adding rich interactive elements, framing your work in a unique way, and concocting a means of providing a unique experience can not only get the user’s attention but also show your capabilities as a designer.
In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of beautiful, unique and highly creative portfolio designs. 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolios. 50 Showcase of Beautiful and Trendy Contact Forms. Tripwire magazine 50 Showcase of Beautiful and Trendy Contact Forms November 19, 2011 · 5 comments by Dustin Betonio Contact forms have evolved a lot since the days of simple bland html forms. The current designs of contact forms are beautiful and can be extremely creative. For this article I have create a round up of beautiful and trendy contact forms for your inspiration. Advertisement 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. fCtm-Argentina 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
Want to keep on surfing? Author : Dustin Betonio Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. Tagged as: contact form design, form design, html form design, web design { 2 comments… read them below or add one } Nancy May 20, 2011 at 4:36 pm It’s nice to see such creativity. Reply Designerrenji March 5, 2011 at 6:57 am Hey..Good…Post… Reply Leave a Reply { 3 trackbacks } 49inShare.