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What? No portfolio?
19.11.11
Since launching the new site, I’ve had a few people question why there was no portfolio or links to work that I have done on the site. It is something I pondered for a while when doing the site. I planned to do something but felt it needed thinking through.
There are two phases to my career. The employed phase where a lot of my old work is no longer live and the freelancer phase which is also split into two phases. I’d say pretty much all my work nowadays is working on existing sites or working with someone else’s design, something which I think hinders a portfolio as majority of people want to see what it looks like rather than what makes it work.
Another hurdle I have faced is not having permission to show work. It’s frustrating knowing that you spent 3 months working on something and nobody will ever know. It’s not a big deal for me as such as the client is happy and hopefully I’ve been paid but if someone was to question what I have done for the year, it would be nice to have it there to say, “have a look at that.”
As for work on existing sites, I guess what I could do is write up exactly what I did with screenshots to explain.
What do other designers / developers do?
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As you can tell from my site, I don’t have much of a portfolio up, just personal stuff.
I just make a real effort to keep my professional designs off there, so that the effect is much more positive when showing a potential client. Too many times I’ve seen potential clients pick out a design on a portfolio and say “I want that” when you want to try as best as possible to keep designs unique and original.
Also, I try to write up as best as possible my thoughts, ideas and process on designs, and writing “Client didn’t like the previous two versions because they’re picky sods” isn’t gonna go down too well…
Nice one. I’d like to go into detail about what I have been doing on a site. All in good time I guess.