How to prepare your graphic design portfolio for an interview, Part 2

How to prepare your graphic design portfolio for an interview, Part 2

In the last article, How to prepare a job winning design portfolio, part 1, we learned how to map both your soft skills and your hard skills to your portfolio projects. In this post, we will look at how to dive deep into those projects, as well as what kind of narrative focal points to showcase when presenting your work…

How to prepare a job winning graphic design portfolio or UX design portfolio, part 1

How to prepare a job winning graphic design portfolio or UX design portfolio, part 1

A design portfolio is a very fragmented representation of what a designer is capable of because design artifacts really only tell half the story. Use this strategy to showcase the skills and narrative you want to win the job…

Content Mapping with clients!

Content Mapping with clients!

When you are first planning out the flow of any given view state of a website, there is a need to get the ball rolling in terms of mapping out content to that view state. Depending where the client is at with their efforts, they might not always have all of the content and information architecture figured out. That is when you pull out the Content Mapping exercise!

Framing the design problem

Framing the design problem

One of the number one problems designers have is properly framing the design problem. While that is a course of instruction in and of itself, here is one tip I use when helping define the problem space that adds the element of value to the equation.