February 2025
Service Design
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People often ask about how success was measured during the course of a project, but they less often ask about measuring personal success as a designer. When I was first asked “how do you measure your own success,?” the question threw me for a loop at first. Typically, my response to a question like that is “If I look back at old design work and cringe, I know I’ve grown.”
In order to stay accountable and ensure that I keep growing as a designer, I will be documenting the evolution of my work. At the heart of my work and the ‘museum’ that contains most of it is: my portfolio.
This post is entirely dedicated to documenting the iterations of my portfolio that will transpire in the future.
The first iteration of my portfolio was published a few months post-bootcamp. It featured class projects alongside ‘real world’ projects and the use of color aimed at drawing attention to my work rather than myself.
During this iteration, I decided to start a blog to document all non-project specific work. Webflow came with somewhat of a learning curve - I hadn’t yet figured out hosting a CMS to make hosting a blog less complicated. Blog Posts were external links to 1-page deliverables - a pretty bad user experience.
The second iteration of my portfolio is what resulted from feedback on the 1st iteration, largely unsuccessful job hunting and lots of learning about articulating design decisions, storytelling and not overcomplicating things.
We'll see!
