On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For months now, I've been wanting to redo my portfolio. I'm curious as to > what approaches everyone is taking out there, and I'm really interested in > tangible, print style portfolios, not a website. > > What approach did you take for your portfolio? What have you seen from > others that you like? What resources are out there for portfolio > inspiration? Hiring managers - what about a portfolio inspires you? Or > depresses you? :-) As a hiring manager, print style portfolios depress me. Seriously, I would expect an interaction designer to have their portfolio online, and here's why: when people show me a physical portfolio, the burden is on me to ask "why is this relevant? what was your contribution?" When people put their work in an online format, it's their responsibility to figure out "what can I show? how can I explain why what I did was valuable? how can I explain my thought process?" That's the same type of critical problem-solving that I expect them to be able to apply to a software design challenge. I don't have super high expectations for the level of visual design or the amount of detail (I know many people have worked on projects where they cannot publicly show work due to IP issues) - but I expect to see that the effort was made. Cindy ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
