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Searching for results.Bob Baxley joined us for Portfolio Club and shared valuable advice on how to think about the job your portfolio needs to do for you.
Real portfolios live. His advice was so good I want to pass the best of it along. Make the work the hero Matt’s first principle is the one most of us get wrong. Your work should fill the project page, roughly 80% of it…
I think, a continuation... Wait. Nope. This is a different one. So we could pause at Fitbit, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I could go either way. I can go through the whole thing or we can pause. Can you go back up to the top?…
What Portfolio Club taught us about designing a great portfolio Of everything you’ll ever design, your portfolio is the hardest to see clearly: you’re too close to judge it the way a stranger would. It’s also easy to…
Chat so people can explore on their own too. Yeah, there's so much work in here. We've been at this since 1999. Designed a lot of cool products for Google, Nike, Dell, Merck, Samsung, and about 600 other companies…
Me I'm sure my portfolio was a mess or like you had before you talked to me you might have an understanding like what does this guy do like he's done all these different things like yeah how do you how do you make a…
With me and Eli and we said hey wouldn't it be great if we you know did some sort of portfolio club this summer if this is popular if this is useful we might just keep going longer um But last week we had Matt D. Smith…
This summer we’re helping you get your portfolio in shape in Portfolio Club . In a recent Substack chat thread, we heard from a lot of folks that they’re stressed out by AI and the job market. People feel behind and…
Folks Matt Donovan who's over at UPS working on design systems nice Evan Flores who's independent these days but used to be at 23andMe and has done a bunch of cool stuff um Aarron hey how are you it's cool if you just…
It's a really big thing like you know you have soundbites you have the title of the project in the bottom right on the hover state you know maybe there's a description below that just like a one line thing like you know…
Get ad-free Design Better episodes, weekly newsletters, and $1,000+ in tools and courses: https://designbetterpodcast.com/ Tailoring your portfolio to the job feels safe, and it wins you work you don't want. Angel…
Welcome, everybody. If you just got here, this is Portfolio Club. We've been doing this every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. I think, what is it, 5 or 6 p.m. GMT? Every week this summer. And the reason…
Bob Baxley joined us on Portfolio Club and shared how important it is to show the messy design you inherited before showing how you solved the problem. Learn more about Portfolio Club here…
World, right? The Ubers, the Lyfts, the Airbnbs, like these really took existing human behavior or existing innovation and then really expanded that into much bigger than anyone would have projected any analysts would…
A way for it to happen, but I don't think it's gonna happen in the way that most people wish it would. What goes into a an effective portfolio? <laugh>, size, time, <laugh> definitely a lot of time that's for sure.
The company. So again, if you kind of have your own Agenda is a strong word but if you have your own goals for the job and you're bringing those into the interview I think that helps a lot um just sort of a random…
Know from chapter to chapter how you end the portfolio it needs to emanate who you are and it needs to be authentic and it needs to be well organized and welld designed and decide what really needs to be in there again…
Your go-to tool is quietly choosing your ideas. If a painting tells the story better than a sculpture, make the painting. If five paintings beat an animation, paint five. Let the story pick the format, and everything…
Of privilege, but again, a lot of us have worked at a lot of different places, and even more modalities are available to us today. The other side of it is the more pragmatic side, which is you do have to shape yourself…
Use Post-its to plot the observed styles of each across the eight dimensions. 62 Develop your business perspective 03. Draw a simplified culture line to connect dimensional differences. Figure 3-6: Example culture lines…
Weekly Portfolio Club calls this summer helped our paid subscribers build portfolios that land great jobs . Experts joined us weekly to provide feedback, and we compiled lessons from each session into a portfolio design…
How to build, scale, and maintain a design system. By Marco Suarez, Jina Anne, Katie Sylor-Miller, Diana Mounter, and Roy Stanfield.
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