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How To Portfolio (when you actually UX)

How To Portfolio (when you actually UX)

Slides from my talk about creating and maintaining a high profile UX portfolio

Erica Olsen Firment

April 18, 2015
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  1. Erica Firment - SJSU - UX Speakers Series - 2015

    How to Portfolio When you actually UX
  2. Goal of This Talk: Know what employers want out of

    a UX portfolio, gain tools for making your own photo: davebloggs007
  3. Do What You Can Start small and expand Time spent

    on non-paying tasks requires a level of privilege Thank the people who make this possible in your life photo: eldeeem
  4. What to Do Treat your Portfolio with as much care

    as you would a work project Use the same process photo: eldeeem
  5. Tell Employers What You Can Do You have a story

    to tell Your skills have names photo: evilerin
  6. Tell Employers What You Have Done Work history UX problems

    solved Ways you have contributed to the community (articles, patterns, talks)
  7. Overachievers do Case Studies Choose up to 5 projects and

    answer: ★ What were the business challenges? ★ What was your process? ★ What was the result? ★ How did you measure success / failure? photo: uxpeople
  8. Overachievers do Case Studies Give Context: ★ When did you

    do this & for whom? ★ What was your role? ★ What would you do differently if you could? photo: uxpeople
  9. Visual Ways to Express Non-Visual Accomplishments Charts & Graphs &

    Numbers Before / After Screenshots Artifacts arranged to show process Illustrate your anecdotes Photos of you doing your thing Photos of your post-it wall or user journey blanket fort photo: mollystevens
  10. Summary ★ Treat your portfolio like a work project ★

    The hiring manager is your user ★ Get numbers ★ Take “before” pictures ★ Make something printable + something with a URL ★ Do not hand carve your portfolio out of Baltic Amber ★ Tell a story