Best tips for Portfolio

Being reflective shows that you are a mature and thoughtful design who is not just rushing through a UX methodology you memorized from a bootcamp! But rather, you know how to think like a designer.

Understand the 3 users of your UX portfolio & how to stand out to recruiters - Sarah Doody

If you don’t have well-written UX case studies, then how can recruiters and hiring managers trust that you’ll be able to communicate what you did and why you did it if they hire you?

How to structure and write a UX case study in 5 steps (by Sarah Doody)

What value does Latoya get from seeing a photo of a wall or post-it notes or a completely illegible whiteboard?

Understand the 3 users of your UX portfolio & how to stand out to recruiters - Sarah Doody

Highlight visuals that helps

What’s obvious to you is not obvious to Latoya who’s looking at it for the first time.

Sarah Doody • Understand the 3 users of your UX portfolio & how to stand out to recruiters - Sarah Doody

such as what you learned and why you decided to do usability tests to begin with versus other research.

Understand the 3 users of your UX portfolio & how to stand out to recruiters - Sarah Doody

Discussing what didn’t go well.

Sarah Doody • Understand the 3 users of your UX portfolio & how to stand out to recruiters - Sarah Doody

Reveal how you handled parts of the project that didn’t go as planned.