
show employers the value you deliver by proving how your ux work saves money or drives revenue, not just visuals. present concrete evidence from the first screen.
Explore why UX portfolios drown in a sea of sameness and fail at the first screen. Differentiate by showing what is unique about you through branding that recruiters notice.
A strong ux portfolio proves strategic value, not just pretty visuals, by showing your reasoning, process, and measurable impact that aligns with business goals.
Your first screen should tell the story viewers want to hear, not what you want to say, and prove your UX skills with clear, meaningful work.
Respect time-poor readers by front-loading evidence in your UX portfolio, delivering concise summaries. Break case studies into client, process, solution, and outcome, with a call to action for deeper reading.
Identify and remove the unintentional roadblocks in your ux portfolio by showing real client work, industries, and measurable outcomes up front, and avoid fluff that wastes the viewer's time.
Explain why you chose each design, how you tested ideas, and what you produced, showing end-to-end evolution from sketches to launch through three case studies.
Lead with outcomes in case studies, presenting the punchline first and quantifiable business impact: client value, conversions, and ROI.
Develop a professional social media narrative that complements your UX portfolio by detailing your work, posting profession-related content, and curating groups, while mindful of posts that could jeopardize opportunities.
Discover a practical, wireframe-style template for a powerful UX portfolio, detailing name, case studies, testimonials, CV, contact, social links, a hero image, logos, bullets optimized for mobile and scrolling.
Present your UX portfolio online as web pages rather than large PDFs, with accessible low-fidelity work and a clear narrative of research, iteration, and thinking, not just final UI.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret:
There’s a damn good chance your portfolio — no matter how visually impressive or cleverly worded it may be — is working against you.
It’s the reason you’re not getting messages from recruiters.
It’s the reason those job applications or messages you’ve sent to recruiters seem to have disappeared into the void.
It’s the reason prospective clients suddenly go dark on you and stop responding to your calls and emails.
In my nearly 30-year career, I've hired plenty of UXers and Designers; for my own company and for a dozen other organizations who built UX practices from the ground up. And what I've seen over the years, then and now, is that the formats and presentations 98% of people use for their UX portfolios actually hide the things that truly make them excellent candidates.
Things I often only discovered after hitting the wall and forcing myself to spend a lot of time I didn’t really have revisiting those portfolios in depth, digging deep into navigation and case studies.
In any event, I felt like something needed to be done — specifically, this course.
A path to quickly illustrate these critical mistakes and show you a better, more effective way to structure and present your work and your value — to recruiters, hiring managers, employers and prospective clients.
I’m inviting you to forget whatever you’ve been told about how to create an online portfolio.
Because if it’s anything like the hundreds I've seen, you’re not doing yourself any favors.
So in this course, across 14 lectures, I’m going to give you everything you need to do it better, from the perspective of the person doing the hiring.
Whether that person is a recruiter, an HR or company exec, or a prospective client looking for freelance help, I’m going to walk you through what works and what doesn’t, with real-world examples.
I’m going to show you why you’re making it harder for yourself to get noticed and get hired. Because even if your work itself is spectacular (which I’m sure it is), I have no doubt you’re making many of the same mistakes I’ve seen thus far in my own recruiting endeavors.
More importantly, I’ll show you exactly what you should be doing instead, from the very first screen.