ah teaches graphic design (Portfolio-ing lecture)

Portfolio-ing

Lecture outline

An introduction to creating a portfolio (for yourself). Lecture slides will be made available on the day of the lecture (March 17).

In preparation for lecture...

Please close up any laptops, cellphones, Humane AI Pins, SNESs and other 'beep-boop' devices.

Creating an Ethos

This week's class

A(n) ethos is the understanding, characteristics and definition of oneself as a ____________.

Visuals

Who are you visually?

Let's look at a couple of examples:

• Moh Robati's Portfolio
• Lauren Wickware's Portfolio
• David Hellmann's Portfolio

Showcasing Your Work

Help us understand why it is good

Ensure your project overviews cover:

• What is the project?
• What was the context?
• Who was involved, and what did you do?
• Show us your process
• Tell us why it matters (i.e. what did you learn or accomplish)

Process Analysis

A process analysis:

1. Describes the project
2. Analyzes a process
3. Identifies a problem and a solution
4. Reflects on the solution

Step 1: Situation

1. What are necessary details to explaining P2?

Step 2: Task

1. What are necessary details to explaining P2?
2. What was a challenge you encountered in P2?

Step 3: Action

1. What are necessary details to explaining P2?
2. What was a challenge you encountered in P2?
3. What was an action you took to address that challenge P2?

Step 4: Result

1. What are necessary details to explaining P2?
2. What was a challenge you encountered in P2?
3. What was an action you took to address that challenge P2?
4. What was the result?

Audiences

How would you explain them to our audiences?

Get to the Point

As much as I might want to, I don't have time to read through everyone's portfolio in depth. Be concise, get to the point fast.

Why Should I Care?

Industry and learning

Portfolios are all about reflective practice, and learning well always involves self-reflection.

An Extreme Do-not-do Example

Let's head over to The Worst Portfolio Ever.

Activity

To get you started thinking about your portfolios for the course, we have an in-class activity for you to work on.

30 minutes

Critiques and guest lecture

Next week scheduled critiques will run in the first portion of class and we will have a guest lecture on personal branding in the later half.

Please read the announcement for your scheduled critique time.

Considering Interaction

Connections and Humans

We're lazy, er, or efficient

"...users have time to read [on average] 20% of words on a page."

User Expectations

What they have experienced before

"Users spend most of their time on other websites."

Making it Interactive

Interaction points should clearly afford they are interactive.

Figma tutorial

Today we will cover how to make buttons.