Credit: by Thomas Leuthard

How to Level Up Your Design Skills

Part 1: UX Portfolio

Your UX portfolio is as important if not more so than your resume as a working designer. Here’s how to upgrade your portfolio to stand out for (the right reasons!) during an interview process.

Introduction

A UX portfolio can be broken down into two main categories:

• Content
• Process

Content = your design work

Showing basic design skills (modern, visual/interactive design mocks, research) and your work at various stages — from lower fidelity options to a more refined solution.

Process = how you went about solving the problem

• What tools did you use?
• How did you discover who your target users were?
• What were their primary needs?
• Who else did you work with? What was your role?
• What challenges did you face along the way and how did you adjust to them?

These are just a few of the unspoken questions that a solid UX process can answer.

Misconception #1: The outcome is the most important part of my project