Everything you need to know to stand out in your design portfolio when applying for jobs

To avoid sounding generic, find your unfair advantage: Passion + Talent + Designer Skills The overlapping themes can be your narrative to explain your value proposition. For example mine is: New Ideas + Design Fast + Ship Products So my one-liner is: I help startups ship MVP to market, FAST

You just gained a new subscriber. To your question, I'm glad to hear hiring managers are looking for standout storytelling and I'm going to work harder to emphasize how my past experience informs my design decisions. Thanks for the concise, distilled advice.

This video and tips is gold. Thanks for sharing us!

this video came out just as I was redesigning my portfolio! Perfect timing :) love your videos xx

This looks as too much, but I've taken notes and made a to do list which now looks more simple than I thought. Some changes here and there aaaand done. Thank you! 😊

so many lessons I learned from this video. also, you gathered great examples. thanks for sharing femke.

thank you so much! right now i'm redesigning my portfolio, this is very helpful!

Thank you, I'm in the process of building my portfolio now, and this helps a lot.

I love this so much! I'm interested on your personal preference and opinion on showing the work before anything else. A lot of the examples walked us through a few sections reviewing who the designer is and their impact they have made/can bring which is awesome to see and a breath of fresh air but something growing designers are told against. When I was a junior I was told again and again that kind of info should be in the "About Me" or after showing your work, so below or in a separate page. I'm open to hearing everyone elses' thoughts on this and hiring managers, if you're out there, please chime in (:

This is gold!

Loved it, thank you! I just discovered your channel. I will try to find other videos more towards switching careers / junior designers.

Fantastic advice, thank you so much for preparing this! I will definitely make my case studies shorter and punchier.

One of the best one Femke thank you for making such an insightfull video. ⚡

Thank you so much for this

Thank you so much my dear you really helped me organizing my mind and improving my portfolio quality

thanks for the tips

Thank you!

Thank you so much, I was about to create a portfolio of my work, and this video is really supportive.. great tip, I'Il go for showcase instead of creating long case study.

Hi Femke, thank you so much for going through the examples with so much detail, I really appreciate it! As a junior designer, I've been hearing conflicting advice on what to include in case studies; in your video you emphasize the 3 main highlights (problem/opportunity, solution, and impact), but I've also been told to showcase how I worked with others, my specific contributions, and how I approach the design process. I was wondering what your thoughts are on this? Thanks again, you're a gem!

Why are there so little likes. VERRRRY helpful video