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Homescreen

• [ ] Clear navigation. Is it easy to navigate to the key areas of your portfolio?
  • [ ] Is it easy to find your relevant work?
  • [ ] Is it easy to find your about page?
  • [ ] Do you have a link to your resume in a downloadable format?
  • [ ] Is it easy to contact you?
• [ ] Intro statement. Who are you? What type of design do you specialize in? What are your strengths? What’s unique about you? Can you communicate your value clearly?
• [ ] Curate projects section. 3-5 project summaries that are relevant to the job you are searching for
  • [ ] High-quality visual. What visual represents the output of this project the best?
  • [ ] Title. Can you summarise the project in a few words? (e.g. Redesign of an in-flight interface)
  • [ ] Link. Does each project summary link to a full case study?
  • [ ] Role. What was your involvement on this project? (e.g. research, ux design)

Case studies

Eye candy

• [ ] Final Design. Grab attention with your finalised design solutions in a high quality display

Context

• [ ] Title. Can you summarise the project in a few words? (e.g. Redesign of a in-flight interface for KLM)
• [ ] Summary. Succinctly describe the project.
• [ ] Problem statement. Should be short and clear. What was the user issue? What was the business problem?
• [ ] Team. How big was the team for this? Were you the only designer? Who else did you work with to make this project happen?
• [ ] Role. What did you do for this project (e.g. research, ux design)
• [ ] Results summary. Should be short and clear. How did your solution ultimately solve the problem? How did it make a positive impact? What was the end results of this project?
• [ ] Constraints. Noteworthy limitations that you overcame.

Process

Show that you have a strong toolkit of methods that you can tailor to what the problem or project requires.

• [ ] Each step. Succinctly describe each step of your process