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Creating and updating a portfolio

Creating and updating a portfolio

From the course: Finding a Job in User Experience

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Creating and updating a portfolio

- Portfolios used to be something that only visual designers needed. Now, pretty much everyone in user experience can benefit from a portfolio, even if what's in that portfolio differs from role to role. Designers should expect to have part of their interview process dedicated to walking through the portfolio. Hiring managers will normally even choose who to bring in for an interview based on a very quick review of portfolios. So it's almost mandatory to have a good, publicly-accessible portfolio when you're applying for these roles. Visual designers should be showing mood boards, early concepts, iterative designs, and the steps they took to get to the final product. Interaction designers can show everything from ideation, sketches, wireframes, through the different treatments they tried with iterative designs to the final product. User researchers have not traditionally needed portfolios. However, these days it's…

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