Hello. I am new to Core. I am a recent graduate and would love to get some feed back on my portfolio sampler. Am posting links to two of my portfolios as one is a bit longer to incorporate my user research. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
Thanks
Wile
Hi willecyte,
I looked at the second portfolio since it was more in depth and showed the research that you mentioned on the title of this post.
On your Research: user analysis pate for the steeple, you could keep the sentences “understanding what these group want is easy” and “understanding what they want was not simple”. I do not think that these sentences are necessary and I specifically didn’t like the first sentence. I wish I could see more of a connection between the user analysis page and the concept page. The user profiles and text are very small and I am not sure what you learned from there and added to the concepts.
Keep in mind that people tend to not want to read a huge block of text and their eyes will go straight for the images. Both the body of text and the profile images felt like they had the same weight on the page, thus making it harder to read. On the concept page, you could categorize your sketches from key words, user desires, and aesthetics learned from your research. This might help bring the connection between the two pages.
In the beginning of the project you mention that this would be designed for both the men and women who are high-tech adopters, but the final design reflects masculinity. I do not know if you had learned that both wanted masculine looking products in the research or that you cut the women out.
Your Lunt is pretty cute. On your sketch page you mention that these are based on market research, instead of telling me that they are based on it, show me. I don’t want to be told that it is, but know that it is just by looking at these sketches. I really do wish there were kids in the images using the product or other products. It can be a cheap move, to put happy kids in your portfolio, but it does make the product have some emotional value. This is why ads have happy people in them, its kinda like projection. It would’ve been nice to have quotes from kids you may have talked to to get their opinions in here.
I only looked at those two and skimmed the others, but feel that you should try to connect some of the stages together a little bit more. Consider page hierarchy and different image sizes. A lot of the elements are the same sizes, especially the sketch pages. You can use hierarchy to help show some of the decisions made. I want to see these decisions you made from the research and how you applied them.
Good luck, I hope this helps. Keep in mind this is just my opinion, hopefully you get some from others.
Well, I’ve only looked briefly, but that I have to ask…
the steeple: what is it? how would it be used? I honestly don’t know :s Context please.
(And no, the first image doesn’t cut it. You hardly even see the product)
Overall, It’s a bit hard to follow and It’s hard to see where a project starts and ends, possibly too much text (I didn’t read most of it, it didn’t pull me in)
Also, I think you could organize it a bit better, e.g. Gobudies, seems like 5 pages of research, then 1 page with jotted down ideas you had? Did you actually make something?
good luck
Thanks for your input. I created a full portfolio and attempted pulled out sections that I thought highlighted certain skill. These sections are what became the sample portfolio I am showing. From your input I am seeing that it isn’t going over to well and the projects aren’t very clear. I’m going to ad in in some of the missing information and incorporate the feed back I’ve gotten thus far. Thanks for your help.
I know we’re not graphic designers, but this is an easy one. Your fonts are all over the place, sizes, serif, sans-serif. If you’re using this much copy, choose a few sizes as a hierarchy and stick with it.