#Portfolio Review Rubrics

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hasty hull
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I wonder if presentation and story telling is lumped together maybe itā€™s almost one and the same thing

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Feels like quality of the work itself is also key

void zephyr
hasty hull
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Yes polish

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Like the actual end result needs to be polished too

void zephyr
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Because I think polished deliverables would be presentation?

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Like how the overall case study looks

hasty hull
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I do think itā€™s separate

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I know @neon estuary and some others often comment on the importance of the end result also being polished

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Not just the case study itself too

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And how thereā€™s often this ā€œdisappointmentā€ at the end when a case study shows lots of process then at the end the result was not as good

void zephyr
hasty hull
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The biggest thing usually for me is the scannability and storytelling/logic

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Most of the time it looks like checklists

void zephyr
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What does good story telling /logic look like

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Is it the layout

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How they followed the methology?

hasty hull
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Iā€™m sure thereā€™s a document somewhere I think maybe @pearl merlin or @versed harbor shared once about a rubric that Facebook or IBM used to read it?

hasty hull
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Can someone follow along the persons logic and see why they did what they did (at least for me thatā€™s good story telling)

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I would also be curious what @ripe skiff would say about this too monkaHmm

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Like rubric wise what would he look for personally

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From my personal experiences hiring managers and recruiters are less checking the case study to see you ā€œproveā€ you know all the tools but rather how someoneā€™s solving the problem

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And thatā€™s what people get caught up in more

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ā€œLet me show all the tools I used so I can prove I do know UXā€

void zephyr
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I almost want to included a category called glue? Like what makes someone stick out in a sense

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If there is something in their projects or portfolio that makes someone stick out?

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Something I've seen that I've really liked was like people would sometimes include their personal projects and it was always interesting to see less polished work

hasty hull
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Like the personality and personal branding part?

void zephyr
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Personality yes, however I might leave it as an after comment for if there was something like that?

ripe skiff
hasty hull
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šŸ–ļø

void zephyr
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But we're talking about making a portfolio rubric

ripe skiff
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Reading

void zephyr
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I wanted to do critiques on the server with a rubric because I wanted my thought process to be really clear

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Oh perfect I forget reading is a thing

pearl merlin
void zephyr
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Ooo

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Bro I feel like a boomer I forget notion exists

ripe skiff
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I'll mention the following things that I look for as a hiring manager:

  1. Presentation: The work is presented clearly and with concision. It's obvious the designer was very intentional about what was included. The timeline (or story) is easy to understand. Goals -> Insights -> Solution -> Impact; everything feels connected.

  2. Problem Solving: Called out moments that happened in the project leading the designer having to make an intentional decision. Those moments are contextualized appropriately and the impact of that decision is explained. Not necessarily ending in a solution, but demonstrating that their actions led to progress being made.

  3. Craft: Attention to detail and care is obvious both in the deliverables and in the portfolio itself. Design fundamentals are expressed appropriately (hierarchy, colour, spacing, etc). Output clearly ties back to research and decisions expressed. The designs feel like a real product.

void zephyr
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Presentation is like the storyboard + Logic part of it got it.

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Okay let me write some this down really quick

void zephyr
ripe skiff
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Presentation is more about the overall presentation of the work itself

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Craft is specific to the work. Namely the execution.

void zephyr
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Three kind of relates to the case study itself I think I'm also approaching it from the point of view as if someone has their own website

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If they were posting on behance or something along those lines I think you'd almost need a separate rubric

pearl merlin
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Hot take I would almost never consider someone who hosts their portfolio on behance unless they were recommended, like the best thing I have ever seen in my life or something really outstanding

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But I also work in enterprise where itā€™s less on visual skills more on process and complexity

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Prob would be fine for people looking for really good visual chops

void zephyr
pearl merlin
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Yes but you also have no space to put in text

void zephyr
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True

pearl merlin
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To explain your thought process

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Unless u save text as an image which is just horrible experience to read

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You could just make a free weebly site

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You could use notion

void zephyr
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Let me add that as a recommendation if I get someone with a behance portfolio to rehost it on a website

pearl merlin
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You could make a friggin google doc

void zephyr
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I forgot about that

pearl merlin
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I think the copy in a portfolio is really important because itā€™s providing all the context I need to evaluate your process and problem solving. You donā€™t need text for a presentation cause you are there to present the context

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But if all I see is a few images, all I know is you can produce deliverables but I know nothing about the problem you are solving

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And therefore canā€™t come to an conclusion if you solved it well

void zephyr
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I'm wondering if it would be good to almost do three main categories and three subcategories for each aspect of the three main

pearl merlin
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You should check out some of the rubrics I have in the links

void zephyr
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?? The link you just sent or somewhere else?

pearl merlin
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Yeah

void zephyr
pearl merlin
void zephyr
versed harbor
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from prototype

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(which was in hen's notion file šŸ˜‚ )

void zephyr
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The wheel is there thanku