Planning a Web Design Portfolio: Getting a Job – Lauren Bacon
Planning a Web Design Portfolio: Getting a Job
By: Lauren Bacon
Released: October 15, 2014
Duration: 53m 22s
Description:
For web designers and other creative professionals, a great portfolio can make the difference between landing the job and getting passed over. In this course, you’ll explore the five essential components of an outstanding portfolio, and find out how to frame your projects in ways that will appeal to prospective employers. Employers looking to fill a job opening want designers who can solve real-world design challenges, be productive and creative team members, and hit the ground running. This course will help you plan the conceptual structure of your portfolio to make these kinds of skills stand out. So join web design entrepreneur Lauren Bacon as she explains how to gear your portfolio to land the perfect web design job.
Topics include:
- Conveying your personality through your portfolio
- Highlighting your problem-solving skills
- Demonstrating range
- Conveying your skill level
- Avoiding pitfalls
Contents:
Introduction
1. Understanding Your Audience
2. Conveying Personality
3. Expressing Your Design Thinking
4. Demonstrating Range
5. Conveying Depth of Experience
6. Avoiding Pitfalls
Conclusion
Author:
Lauren Bacon is a web designer, author, and coach.
A seasoned entrepreneur and business and leadership coach, Lauren wants to help you build a work life you seriously love. Her specialty is helping creative professionals, freelancers, and entrepreneurs carve out niches that pay the bills and feed their souls.
Lauren’s writing on business, technology, and leadership has been featured at 99U, The Atlantic, Women 2.0, Quartz, The Huffington Post, and Fast Company, and her best-selling first book, The Boss of You: Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Business, got props from both Bust Magazine and the Financial Post. Lauren’s second book, Curious for a Living: How Asking Better Questions Makes You Indispensable, came out in November 2013.
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