#ChatGPT to evaluate portfolio website
granite stirrup
Yes
still flax
ChatGPT to evaluate portfolio website
granite stirrup
So, I have a script that autonomously loads and browses the web to answer questions, and I asked it:
" can you visit pale.io and evaulate this portfolio? Please include at least 5 pros and 5 cons a hiring manager might have all within 1 answer resposne. You can load multiple pages before answering if you need to."
It responded:
Here is the answer: Here are 5 pros and 5 cons a hiring manager might consider when evaluating this portfolio:
Pros:
- Wide range of skills including Front-End, Back-End, Software, and Operating Systems.
- Demonstrable experience with a variety of programming languages and web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, and more.
- Worked with various platforms like WordPress, osCommerce, and others.
- Practical knowledge of ECommerce and Marketing tools like Google Analytics, and Facebook Ads Manager.
- Experience with networking, graphic design, SEO and other complementary skill sets.
Cons:
- Portfolio lacks in-depth descriptions of projects and their impact on clients.
- Limited examples of work samples to showcase design and development abilities.
- No mention of contributions to open-source projects or other community work.
- Unclear about the specific roles played in the projects.
- The contact information has personal email and phone number, instead of a dedicated professional channel.
Cost half a buck tho: Total Tokens Used: 6394 ( $0.55 )
sterile onyx
That's a cool step in the right direction. My original question was specifically about it making suggestions about a site's design and layout.
still flax
Yep, definitely a cool step in the right direction.
I built a similar prompt “I am a graduate from a UX Bootcamp working on my portfolio. I want it to help me get a job as a UX designer. Does the following content fit into a portfolio introduction?” and it gave me an overview of the problems which I continued to explore further in conversational mode.
I’ve been successful with checking how well project content fits into a model UX project structure, content gaps, and improving the professional writing quality.
There is other advice I give students such as don’t tell the reviewer what they already know, and no motherhood. ChatGPT doesn’t handle those well.
It’s great at checking language and overall consistency of case for headings, etc.
It can’t tell me if the choice of project is unlikely to impress a reviewer (good grief, not another Uber Eats).
I’ve only done limited automation. I wondering about the balance between automation and manual exploration.
ChatGPT being text based can’t advise on correctness and appropriateness of images, or visual layout / typography problems.
Apologies @sterile onyx , I changed the title of the thread to refer to portfolios, but realize your question was broader. It's a harder question, because UX portfolios have a good model to evaluate against. Here's what I think we can and can't do for the general case.
ChatGPT could check some things such as logic of the site map and navigation structure, whether the page content reflects the name of the link that got you there, consistency of terminology. All things that we do in a heuristic review.
It might never be possible for ChatGPT to run interactive functionality, such as signing up for a new account, purchasing a product, etc. and evaluating flow, friction and error recovery. ChatGPT would have better success by working with functional specs.
Without knowing the purpose of the site, or the problems the site is trying to solve, neither ChatGPT nor I could know if the site is successful in meeting its goals.
That’s my take. The finished product is based on requirements and research which are not surfaced in the finished product, although they might be partially inferred. I think these would be good targets for their own ChatGPT assessments.