Portfolio ideas from lecture content (Wk 8)

In this week's lecture, Matt introduced our portfolio assessment piece and gave some useful tips to tick all the boxes and maximise the effectiveness and impact of our portfolio. The tips that I found most relevant to the website that I want to construct were:
  • Tip #2 - Show personality
This tip was all about sharing a piece of yourself with the audience through the choice of design, colour schemes, text and content. I feel that this is where I can make my portfolio very unique. I think I will use this opportunity to create a personal logo and show off many of my personal projects involving video editing and 3D modelling. An important note however is to select the content being displayed well - after all the portfolio is all about showing off the skills I have and knowledge I can utilise.
  • Tip #6 - Categories work
This point was all about using navigational categories to separate different streams of work. For example have a section dedicated to web design, another to graphic design and a third to personal projects. I really liked the idea of using categories as I think it allows audiences to just inspect what they want or what is relevant to their business. A potential employer looking for a web designer might not want to sift through my graphic design or personal projects therefore categories help the portfolio get straight to the point and help with organisation. The headings I will use will be graphic design (a section showing my professional graphics projects from high school), video editing (my personal hobby and future ambition) and university projects (my website designs and other projects I have done at university that support the other two categories).
  • Tip #7 - Share a back story
To best entice future employers or business partners, Matt recommended us to include a personal back story on the portfolio. Reflecting on this tip, I can definitely agree with Matt - selling yourself is so important when you are trying to make it the industry and I feel a good backstory helps you to stand out to employers. I want to write a back story that summarises my ambitions and what I hope to do with my skills to sell myself and start to construct 'my personal brand.'

While I found just these tips to be most prevalent to the portfolio I want to construct, all the tips were extremely useful so I have included a copy of my notes on the lecture below for future reference.


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