r/IndustrialDesign • u/SunnySquid12 • 3d ago
Portfolio Portfolio Feedback
Hey y'all! I posted here like 5 months ago on my portfolio and got some great advice and feedback. I completely re-did it and I'm hoping to get a bit more feedback. I'm hoping to get into the toy industry! Thanks again so much to those who helped :) The Aquadogs project is my current senior thesis, so it is still a WIP but goes a lot more in depth with my process
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u/Wonderful-Current-16 2d ago
Playererfs is right the wix interface was a nightmare, just pony up for a paid site or use Behance or simply go to a pdfolio. There was soooooooo much information on the slides I was able to look at and there was no way I was reading it. It looks very much like they are your uni assignment presentations.
My advise outside of the platform / presentation stuff is to reduce your content and make use of some more clear and concise visuals to communicate it. A picture says a thousand words. I hope that helps and good luck :)
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u/SunnySquid12 2d ago
Thank you so so much for the advice! I had some follow up questions but no pressure on answering :) So originally the presentations were 16x9, they look like that on desktop. I had to size them down to fit the mobile screen, so it definitely made the text super illegible. Is there a better way to best optimize for mobile? Also, how can I summarize text such as explaining the problem and concept statements, user personas, or summarizing survey data and research? Thanks again so much!
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u/Wonderful-Current-16 2d ago
My suggestion would be to scroll through Behance for some inspo and guidance. A quick 5 min search found this guy which I thought was pretty good for a student folio. Minimum words, nice layout etc
https://www.behance.net/gallery/213470691/Product-Design-Portfolio-2024-%28Minjun-Jo%29
You can see he has a format he follows, he has a hook image, explains his project in a sentence with a nice image, shows a different aspect for each project to highlight his skills (ie prototype, or sketching or cad work) and then finishes with a hero shot in context showing how he solved the problem. That’s all a folio needs to do. It’s intended to get you an interview and then at the interview you can explain how you did 3 months of research and found xyz etc etc.
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u/Wonderful-Current-16 2d ago
My suggestion would be to scroll through Behance for some inspo and guidance. A quick 5 min search found this guy which I thought was pretty good for a student folio. Minimum words, nice layout etc
https://www.behance.net/gallery/213470691/Product-Design-Portfolio-2024-%28Minjun-Jo%29
You can see he has a format he follows, he has a hook image, explains his project in a sentence with a nice image, shows a different aspect for each project to highlight his skills (ie prototype, or sketching or cad work) and then finishes with a hero shot in context showing how he solved the problem. That’s all a folio needs to do. It’s intended to get you an interview and then at the interview you can explain how you did 3 months of research and found xyz etc etc.
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u/Playererf Professional Designer 3d ago
This wix based portfolio is a terrible interface. I'm finding it very difficult to interact with through a web browser on my phone. I can't give any feedback on the ID work, because I can't even see any of it. On each project, by the time I scroll sideways through 8 frames of illegible small text, it starts endlessly loading.
All I can see is the graphic design, which I am not a fan of at all. It doesn't look clean, modern, or professional. Simplify, tone it down, and follow conventions to make things clean and communicative.