#Portfolio designs for students update#

Heather Shaw’s portfolio, above, works because each project is so different, but the color overlays give the homepage a connected feel. It’ll keep your homepage cleaner with a consistent look and style for different sections of the website, ensure that one page isn’t too heavy and slow to load, and provides an opportunity to highlight something about a project before the click. Using interesting color overlays on preview image links can be a visually engaging way to encourage clicks to individual projects.

The answer might be to partially obscure the work. How do you preview work or project sections in a way that will entice users to actually click through? One of the most challenging things about creating a portfolio is the homepage. Heather Shaw’s portfolio works because each project is so different, but the color overlays give the homepage a connected feel.

#Portfolio designs for students update#

(How’s that for creating something you can update quickly?) Split-Screen Patterns With big “art” for projects, completed jobs are the focus, rather than creating something completely new. The other things that are so nice about this portfolio style are that as a designer you don’t have to come up with something completely new to show off your work. Plus, the slide element that encourages left to right scrolling with partial headlines from other projects. Subtle cues help users understand elements of the portfolio, such as small numerals above the headline, and the date below.

It’s beautiful and simple and what’s most impressive is the room each project has to shine. Robin Mastromarino’s portfolio looks like a website for a bar or fashion designer or professional athlete, depending on which part of the slider you view first. One of the biggest trends in portfolio design is crafting a portfolio that looks like another type of website altogether. …as a designer you don’t have to come up with something completely new to show off your work