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How to Level Up Your Design Skills
Part 1: UX Portfolio
4 min readOct 16, 2017
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.
