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How to Make an Amazing Design Portfolio

Name: How to Make an Amazing Design Portfolio
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Your Portfolio Is Your Career's Opening Argument

The course frames a design portfolio as more than a job-search formality: it's the project that speaks for you when you're not in the room, whether you're applying for a first job, freelance work, or a design school place.

Instead of covering one narrow format, it teaches a repeatable method for building portfolio projects with real impact, one that can be tailored to different roles and applications rather than rebuilt from scratch each time.

What's taught

The different types of portfolios you'll need for different situations
How to construct a professional portfolio project reviewers actually respond to
The three questions every design project in a portfolio must answer
Common mistakes designers make, and how to avoid them

It also works through the practical questions most designers get stuck on: how many projects to include, whether group or unfinished work counts, how long a portfolio should be, and whether one portfolio can serve every application.

About this course

How to Make an Amazing Design Portfolio

Introduction

You need a design portfolio to get your first job, your second job, every design job, to get freelance work, to get admitted to the design school you dream about. Your portfolio speaks for you when you are not there to speak for yourself.

People love to look at great design ideas because great design changes our world for the better. That’s why you have chosen design as a career and your portfolio shows your great ideas.

Your portfolio is the most important design project you will ever work on. Your portfolio is your lifelong design project.

This course teaches students how to create a design portfolio that can be tailored for any design job or role you are applying for. This course teaches a simple step by step method for creating design portfolio projects with impact that will impress reviewers and interviewers.

What you will learn

· I will teach you about the different types of portfolios you will need.

· I will teach you how to create a professional portfolio project.

· I will teach you what reviewers are looking for in a design portfolio

· I will teach you the three questions every design project must answer.

· I will show you how to build a library of design projects that you can easily tailor for any design role.

· I will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes many designers make in their portfolios

Portfolio Questions

In this course we will answer the common questions designers have when making a portfolio

How many projects should I show?
How do I choose which projects to show?
Can I include Group projects? Personal projects? Projects I am still working on?
How long should my portfolio be? How many pages?
Is my website the same as my portfolio?
Can I use the same portfolio for every job application?