✨ 🌱 The resume/portfolio tips no one asked for but here they are: 1.) If you are applying for a Product Designer role, you will need a link to a website with your portfolio. You should put this at the top of your resume. Make it a hyperlink so I can click on it. 2.) Make sure that link works! A lot of your links don't work. There are weird spaces in the URL, or they aren't hyperlinked, or they are tiny text I can't really read the link, or they are straight up dead links. 3.) Don't password protect your front page! I can't see anything. UX this thing, you are designers. Let me see at least one page, password protect the projects if you must. 4.) Consider not password protecting anything and instead generalizing the content you were not allowed to share- Leave off logos and branding, and talk about your process and solution. Put some visuals in that you made but maybe are more process oriented or not the real solution you built - and then mention that you have more to show in person or in a pdf you can share. Or in a password protected page, again, if you must. Just get yourself past the first screening step. 5.) For real - make sure your portfolio link works. Go get those jobs.
Tips for Improving Portfolio Shareability and Accessibility
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Summary
Creating a shareable and accessible portfolio ensures potential employers or clients can easily access and understand your work, showcasing your skills effectively while prioritizing user experience.
- Ensure functional links: Double-check that all portfolio and resume links are clickable, free of errors, and lead directly to live, accessible pages.
- Focus on accessibility: Use contrast checkers and include alt text for images to meet accessibility standards and demonstrate attention to usability.
- Streamline navigation: Add clear menus or anchor links within your portfolio to help viewers find relevant work without excessive scrolling.
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Designers: Please, please, please make your portfolio easy to access for recruiters. - List it on your Linkedin profile - List it on your resume - If you have proprietary work, just password-protect those but make sure SOME stuff is available for us to look at - Make sure your link WORKS - Think about the user experience on your portfolio site - make it easy for us to quickly find your work and understand what work YOU did and who else was on your project Don't put in the effort of applying for a role only to be rejected because you have no work to show. Recruiters: anything else I'm missing here?
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UX red flag: If you consider yourself a UX designer, don't use inaccessible colors on your portfolio, website, social media images, etc.. Far too often, I come across portfolios, LinkedIn header images, or other assets from UX designers, but the colors are inaccessible. That's a MASSIVE red flag. You're basically signaling to employers that you either don't know about visual accessibility or that you don't care, which you obviously don't want. Remember, your portfolio is a reflection of what you'll be able to do for a company. If your portfolio is visually inaccessible, you're telling potential employers that you won't pay attention to that kind of detail when you're hired. That's how you can quickly disqualify yourself from a job opening. The fix? Get a contrast checker on Figma and make sure everything is visually accessible. If you're using color combinations that aren't accessible, change them. Here are the ratios to hit: - Graphical image 3:1 - Normal text 4.5:1 for AA or 7:1 for AAA - Large text (24px and bold or larger, or 19px or larger) 3:1 for AA and 4.5:1 for AAA Make sure everything is in your favor when you try to get hired. You got this! #UX #Accessibility #UserExperience #UXPortfolio #Portfolio