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Graphic Designer to UX Designer portfolio review

Today we evaluate a UX portfolio from a designer who transitioned from Graphic Design to UX design. Aniela Carolina, a product/UX and visual designer building experiences Oracle. She has experience working on projects of various shapes and sizes, from creating a bakery brand to more long-term projects like content management projects, building websites with data visualizations to working on Sales product projects.

As usual I will highlight what UX recruiters and UX hiring managers look for when evaluating such a portfolio using emojis to indicate my emotions.

Let’s begin.

UX Portfolio example – Landing page

UX Portfolio example – Case study

Takeaways: 

  • Useful portfolio intros for recruiters outline who you are, what you do and where you live 
  • Avoid using flat angled mockups to show your designs images. 
  • Zoom into project images to highlight a feature and platform
  • If you were part of a team working on a design project, mention them and highlight what you actually did on the project. 
  • Check your case study for grammatical errors and spelling mistakes
  • Include results or learnings from the projects at the end of your case study. It shows you are reflective and understand the impact the project has on users and the business.

UX portfolio review | Self taught UX designer with Google UX Certification

As a UX team manager and recruiter, I will be reviewing a Google Certification Course case study from Kevin, a self-taught UX designer based in Illinois. He decided to enroll in the Google UX Design Certificate Program in hopes of enhancing the limited amount of UX knowledge he already had. He studied Creative Technologies, which is an interdisciplinary major that covers several topics such as motion graphics, interactivity, and web design.

I will approach the UX portfolio the same way we normally do when hiring for a entry level designer. 

Let’s get into it.

In conclusion

The Google Course definitely seems to give students a good basic UX education framework to help them build a portfolio. This case study was decent but incomplete which introduces doubt in a recruiter’s mind. There are certain sections that needed more information and some that did not make sense. 

Takeaways:

  • Have descriptive project headings so that recruiters know which one may be relevant to them.
  • Always have a good summary of the problem, designer project role, project type, and when the project was done.
  • For any UX method used, detail why the method was picked, what the deliverables were, and how this influenced the next steps.
  • Show iterations, sketches, wireframes alongside sitemaps and user flows.
  • Detail how testing is conducted, how the feedback was incorporated and if the final design was retested