Your portfolio is the key to a career in User Experience. It is the quickest and single best asset you have to get an interview without knowing the Hiring Manager. Your portfolio should tell a story. http://uxhow.com/get-interview-top-10-portfolio-questions-answers-ux-ui-visual-designers/ How many pieces should be in a portfolio? How should it be presented? How do I present work that I did on a team? Can you include student work? How do you handle NDA work? How do you choose what to include? Should I include a well-recognized company? What do you HATE to see missing or included in a portfolio? How long do you spend looking at portfolio? What do you look for in a portfolio as a hiring manager?

1. How To Get The Interview:
Top 10 Portfolio
Questions & Answers
for UX, UI & Visual Designers

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4. Troy Parke

9. Practical UX/UI Designer

10. Who are you?

11. User Experience?
User Interface?
Information Architects?
Content Strategists?
Visual Designers?
Web Designers?
Career Changers?
Students?

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13. How many pieces should
be in a portfolio?

14. Be Selective
(Reviewers are too)

15. Worst piece remembered
Be relevant, real & ready
Tell a story
Small number is enough

16. Troy Parke

17. How should it be presented?
(How much detail
should you provide?)

18. You have to tell them a story
(The work won’t “speak for itself ”)

19. Present the problem
Explain what you did
Describe the outcome
Include metrics

20. LaiYee Lori

21. How do I present work that I
did on a team without taking
credit for the whole project?

22. List your contribution

23. Your title at the time
Identify as group work
Avoid dissecting screens

24. Emi Matsumoto

25. Can you include
student work?

26. Ideally... No

27. Everyone has been there
Easy to spot
Replace ASAP
Design your own site

28. Ashlimarie Dong

29. How do you handle
NDA work?

30. Carefully

31. Honor legal agreements
Protect your reputation
Managers understand

32. How do you choose what to
include in a portfolio?

34. Hand out roses
(Play The Bachelor/Bachelorette)

35. Representative
Relatively recent
Instantly recognizable
Looking for warning signs

36. Should I include work that
doesn’t reflect my style if it’s
for a well-recognized company?

37. If solid...Yes

38. Great value in versatility
Can help legitimize you
Will be “known” for it

39. Jake Rae

40. What do you HATE to see
missing or included?

41. Lying, NSFW & Not Online

43. Lying with intention
Lying by omission
NSFW content
Must be online, no media
Email & phone number

44. How long do you spend
looking at a portfolio?

46. 10-15 Seconds

47. Twice as long as recruiters
Apply the 5 second test
Team will review in detail

48. Nick Berry

49. What do you look for in a
portfolio as a hiring manager?

50. “Is this someone
I want to interview?”

51. Not hired for portfolio
Gets your foot in the door
Next is interview process

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