 I've just been asked a great question in a live stream and that is how do you build a stellar portfolio as a UIUX designer? So I'm going to put four minutes on the time I so I can give you a no BS answer, so let's go. So when you're applying for a junior role as a UIUX designer you need a portfolio and within your portfolio there should be three to five case studies. So it's not just good enough having one, you need at least three and this is so you can stand out when you're applying for jobs because a lot of people are going to be applying they're not going to have very much experience so they're applying for a junior role and they're probably going to have one or two projects so you need more than them and then within each case study so a case study if you don't know it's essentially kind of like a story of what you've been doing so it explains the project from start to finish it's kind of like it's just essentially a mini story so you start off with research so you show all the different tasks that you've done along the way so first off you explain what the project is what your role is what different software you used on the program they should be within the first the way I lay it out is different screens and then export them as JPEGs and put them in a Behance portfolio so then you want to talk about your research that you do so you want to include personas you want to include user interviews and surveys and then at the end of that you want to summarize what you actually learned from them so that's normally three different things that you want to have on the app so these could be three different points you want to add or it could be three different features that you want to improve upon so that's your research and then you want to take that into an ideation stage and that's where you get these ideas and then you play around with some things like sketching, low fidelity wire framing it's really good to have photos of you actually sketching and doing the work this it doesn't matter icon draw so it doesn't need to be great it's more about ideation and then show different versions of it don't just show the final sketch show the ones that didn't work so much this is good because it shows problem-solving as you're going through so show them then show your wireframes and then take this dent up into a high fidelity prototype which you're there in figment this is where things look a bit more realistic maybe explain to them the process that you have through so explained maybe you tested your wireframes with your friends and family it's really good to show that you're thinking about the users throughout this process and then once you've got your your prototype you want to show some screen grubs of maybe of it on your phone maybe you test them with people because it doesn't just end there we want to show improvements in our case study because that's what it's all about it from a higher amount just point of view it's about understanding if you can adapt and you can improve your work it's not just like a one thing and done so you want to use a test and move in it you also want to touch upon accessibility so there are some plugins within figment maybe you want to show some color contrast to show that it works for people who are colorblind and then at the end of it you want to show some handover documents so maybe go into figs with new prototype mode so the handover take a few screen shots of the HTML and CSS within that and then that kind of is the process and you want to repeat that two to three times during the interview you're probably gonna talk about this for around 45 minutes you probably spend a large time on just one of them but then it's really good to show that you have a formula when you approach a project because what are the questions you will get asked in an interview is please tell me about your UX process so if you can explain the process that you went through and show that they're consistent within these three projects then you're gonna have a really good chance of standing out the other thing that the hiring manager is going to ask you is show me some obstacles that you overcome during the process and this is where you can go within each case study and you can show improvements from before and after testing that's very very important remember your portfolio doesn't need to be great it just needs to be a Behance portfolio doesn't need to be your own fancy website spend time doing loads of coding it needs to be very very standard because the information involved in it is the most important. Three to five case studies there we go 10 seconds left let me know what you think in the comments