Early-Career Designer Portfolio Review - Clyde Forland III

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www.clydeforland.com/
Some takeaways from me:
• Customize LinkedIn URL: Ensure your LinkedIn profile URL is short and personalized, making it easier to include on your resume and portfolio. Edit your contact info on LinkedIn to create a custom URL.
• Clarify Grammar and Phrasing: Review and refine the language used in your portfolio descriptions to ensure clarity and professionalism. For example, phrases like “solve complex problems into clear solution” should be corrected to “transform complex problems into clear solutions”.
• EXCELLENT WORK Platform Accessibility: Ensure your chosen platform for your portfolio, like Squarespace, supports accessibility features. Include mechanisms to pause, stop, or hide moving elements to comply with WCAG guidelines.
• Consistent Terminology: Use consistent and clear terminology in your project descriptions. For example, avoid repetitive words like "reliable" and ensure that your survey data and insights are easy to understand.
• ALSO AWESOME: Enhanced Project Descriptions: Clyde did a great job making his project descriptions informative and engaging by highlighting key learnings and experiences, like how he incorporated feedback or addressed challenges.
• Mobile Optimization: Make sure your portfolio is easy to view on mobile devices. Avoid using large images that become difficult to read when compressed on smaller screens.
• Label Fidelity Appropriately: Accurately label the fidelity of your wireframes and mockups. Avoid calling mid-fidelity designs "wireframes" if they include colors and logos.
• Tell a Story: When presenting your projects, tell a story that follows a clear narrative. Connect the user's needs and problems to the design decisions and solutions you provided.
• User Personas and Scenarios: Include user personas and scenarios to illustrate how your design addresses specific user needs. Reference these personas throughout your project to maintain a cohesive narrative.
Viewers: what are your takeaways?
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Hey Team! Today we have another in the series of Early Career Designer Portfolio Reviews, where I conduct a kind of UI assessment called a Cognitive Walkthrough. I review an early career designers portfolio and resume and give feedback for ways to improve it as they look for a job in the UX industry.
I'm a Sr. UX Designer with 10+ years of experience in UX design and a passion for helping early career designers as they make a career shift into tech. You can find out more about me at maigenthomas.com
Also, you can find out about me at www.patreon.com/maigenux where I hope you'll join an awesome crew of folks as I provide motivation and mentorship, build an apprenticeship agency to employ early-career designers and teach UX as I do UX.
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Thanks for joining me!

[@clydeforland5944]

I am smiling from ear to ear still watching this! Thank you for the incredible feedback and sharing some awesome new tech with us!

[@Jaaric]

Thank you, both of you. I'm looking to transition to UX myself and this video (and whole series) is very helpful to see what might be expected out of me as I work on refining my first case study.

[@maigen]

You are going to crush it! Let me know if you want any feedback (you don't have to do the whole review process if you just have some questions while you're working through it!)

[@Jaaric]

​@@maigen What are your thoughts on linking directly to a Google Slides presentation of the case study (29 slides) rather than translating that info into a webpage to scroll down? Is that viable? I've only really seen one portfolio that's done that... I find it easier to think in slides for some reason.