6 Things you SHOULDN'T DO on your Portfolio

-- Today, I'm checking out various things that you shouldn't do on your (design OR code) portfolios. Like for instance, progress bars that represent your skills? DON'T DO THAT. Find out way and watch!

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[DesignCourse]

What did I leave out? What else should you not do on your portfolio?

[willmakk]

this floating head makes some good points

[fredhair]

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[Kendrip]

"Emphasis your strengths and don't talk about what you don't know" - Gary Simon




This tip applies for almost every situations that exists so am taking this one serious, you should too.

[juangalicia]

my summary
1.you need to give somebody a place to click, like a navbar and make sure you giving them a relevant direction.
2.nobody is going to contact you they first look at your work and also before they first learn more about more you(in others words, dont put "Contact me" in the principal page, put something like "Check out my work").
3. If you are going to put your achieviements, provide a little bit of details about what do you do and put logos about your achieviements.
4. Dont use progress bar about your skills (who do this wtf).
Emphazise the strength, something like:"i pretty strong in javascript".
5. "About me sections":
Nobody wants to read multiple paragraphs before they are able to see your work. In others words, first put your projects or works and then your "About me section".
6. If you are not a web designer, you can use templates for your portfolio. But if you are a web designer it is contradictory that you use templates, since you are going to offer someone to design UI.

[aftabk]

No one :
Literally no one:
Gary : wears green shirt while in green screen

[francescob.]

the reason why you should use a template or smth if you're not a good ui designer is because it's much more important to show that you UNDERSTAND what a bad UI looks like, so you know that your work would not be good enough for it. If your portfolio looks bad, not only you're demonstrating that you're not a very good designer, but that you can't tell a good one from a bad one, which is much more important.

[hmod]

This channel is like an older brother telling us how to not embarrass our selfs 😂

[cheqitout]

Man i love your style! the advise is always practical and understandable, you're one of the clearest design youtubers out there! keep up the good work!

[johngudelj]

Speaking as a graphic designer, "taking on too many hats" is what a lot of employers are looking for in their job postings. Keep up the great work. I'm learning a lot from your content. Cheers.

[remydemy]

Next video: 6 Things you SHOULDN'T DO while using a greenscreen. 😂

[joekliws]

I'm starting now as UX designer and your channel has been of great help! Thank you so much and keep up!

[nathanielkelly]

I have been away for awhile and I just came back to check a few things out... You are looking JACKED. Congrats def a huge difference from the first videos.

[tsgrunt]

Love that you review and give Real World examples. Thanks for the content!

[CoolScratcher]

You're a huge inspiration Gary! You're amazing! :D

[chrishuhn]

5:00 Regarding context and case studies: With these companies he probably can't talk about that because of a NDA, especially with security related work.

[CortiBeats]

Bruh, some day I'll recommend your YouTube channel, you helped me a lot man, thank you!

[husseinkizz]

Thanks, Gary, I have watched it comparing my portfolio, and lol I did well at most but thanks for the tips!

[techwake]

Thank you so much for you helpful advice and i learned a lot of things that what i have to do or not. 👍

[sabirnawaz]

Thanks Gary I was just about to create my portfolio and got your video