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50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Design portfolios come in various forms.

50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs - Smashing Magazine

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. Creating A Successful Online Portfolio - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Your portfolio is the showcase of your work, your skills and your potential for your future employers.

Creating A Successful Online Portfolio - Smashing Magazine

The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable and nice-looking design, the higher are your chances for getting better account balance in the end of the month. So how can you make sure your portfolio is better than the portfolios of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your works? Creating a successful portfolio is easier than you think. There are some common mistakes designers make in their portfolios. Pitfall #1: Obfuscation. 10 Characteristics of Excellent Portfolio Sites. Recently we looked at the characteristics of effective blog theme design, and I’d like to take a similar look at the portfolio sites of freelance designers.

10 Characteristics of Excellent Portfolio Sites

A designer’s online portfolio is a critical part of the business, and in some cases the most valuable asset of the business. A good portfolio site is a constant lead-generation tool, but what is it specifically that makes a great portfolio site? 1. Clear Communication A portfolio site should clearly and concisely communicate with visitors about the services that are provided and what the designer has to offer to potential clients. 10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement.

10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website - Smashing Magazine

50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag. Designers and developers are growing in numbers and plenty of these folks have outstanding portfolios.

50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag

The common advantage of the Internet is that anybody from anywhere in the world can check out your projects during any time of the day! If you wish to land more freelance work then I would recommend taking a peek at your current portfolio to see if anything could be updated. And to help with building ideas for your own website, I have collected 200 various portfolios of graphics designers, developers, writers, and other digital creatives.

This is a massive showcase gallery full of design inspiration for unique portfolio layouts. I strived to include only designs which really change things up from the typical portfolio website templates. If you like this post you might also like our post 35 mobile responsive portfolio layouts Mathew Helme. 25 examples of symmetry in web design. Symmetry is an age-old device of the visual artist. The word refers to two halves that perfectly mirror each other. 40 Examples Of Creatively Integrated Social Media Links In Web Design. Top 10 Ways to Find Great Photos on Flickr. Well two weeks ago I blogged about the top 10 ways to get attention on Flickr and thought in continuing with the top 10 theme that I’d do another Flickr top 10.

Top 10 Ways to Find Great Photos on Flickr

This top 10 is the top 10 ways to find great pictures on Flickr (almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world, of course). Although I’ve been on Flickr, heavily, for over a year, it has only been recently that I’ve picked up on some of the best ways to use the site to find truly spectacular photography. Dé plek om te leren ontwerpen. 50 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have. The success of web applications and websites depends in how well designed the User Interface is.

50 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have

Designing a good user interface however is a very challenging process. A designer’s concepts and design decisions always affect the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service he has designed. That is why, the dream of every designer is to deliver high quality, enjoyable and valuable experiences for the users. 60 Apple Inspired Websites - Why Apple Design Works? Apple has always been showing what beautiful design means in all their designs, products, icons, websites.

60 Apple Inspired Websites - Why Apple Design Works?

But what really make Apple design stand out from the crowd? Why it receives so big attention, so many awards, what’s so special in it? 22 Website Designs Inspired by Apple.com. It’s well known that Apple is one of the most creative and innovative companies in the world, so it’s no wonder that many software companies and web designers would choose to follow Apple’s style of branding.

22 Website Designs Inspired by Apple.com

The Apple website is one of the best websites out there due to its ease of use, functionality and the beautiful environment that it creates. I looked at websites that use one or more design elements inspired by Apple.com. Some of these sites sell Mac software and apps, so it makes sense for them to keep the same Apple look and feel. Consider this though: How many software companies that develop for Windows, choose to brand their websites to look like Vista? I have included a few screenshots of the Apple website, just in case you haven’t never seen it before. Apple.com 1. 2. iSlayer 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 280 Slides.