Quite often, beginning designers contact me on Instagram asking:

“How can I become a UX designer? I spend a lot of time studying theory, I have a portfolio, but HR tells me they are not ready to work together.”

I am very sorry that so many people cannot find their dream job. Today, we will analyze the main mistakes when creating a UX portfolio. I’ll ask you the same questions that I ask the guys on Instagram, and you are going to try to provide honest answers to these questions. Based on your answers, you will be able to create a high-quality portfolio that will help you get your dream job.

Let’s start with a few questions:
1. What is the purpose of your portfolio?

Your portfolio is bait. The main goal is to get the recruiter interested in responding to your work and seeing you as a prospective job candidate.

2. What role do you play in the company?

Your portfolio should clearly reflect your role in the company. Before creating a portfolio, define your role: UX designer, UI designer, UX / UI designer, UX Researcher, or Product Designer. After choosing a role, list the main responsibilities and try to cover them in your portfolio.

3. What is your work experience and do you have any finished projects?

If you have only a couple of projects that correspond to your role - rather start creating cases, if they don’t exist - find yourself a project. Through your projects, you can show what kind of specialist you are, what you can do and how you think.

Does your portfolio meet the goals of recruiters?

Getting familiar with your portfolio, a recruiter often needs to get answers to the following questions:

Who is it? What is the specialist’s experience?

What knowledge does a specialist have and what value can they bring to our company?
How does this person work and how do they think? How does a designer approach problems and their solutions? Will your team be comfortable working with this person and will they be comfortable with you?

Ask yourself these questions and then, try to honestly answer them. If your portfolio cannot provide clear answers for a recruiter, let’s move on to the next point of our conversation and analyze the basic requirements for a perfect UX portfolio, how to create it and how to improve it.

Read more at https://hackernoon.com/how-to-create-the-perfect-ux-portfolio-9g193w59

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