UW HCDE (Human Centered Design & Engineering) Creating professional portfolios - specifically, the kind you bring with you to a job interview that discusses a few projects in depth, rather than many projects in breadth. Includes: - Top 10 UX Portfolio Questions - How to Tell a Story - Examples of Portfolios and Presentations

2. - Introductions
- Top 10 UX Portfolio Questions
- How to Tell a Story Examples
- Your Turn
- Q & A

3. Troy Parke
!
AAS, BSCE, MSCE
UW - Civil Engineering
Likes Hello Kitty
Uses multiple text boxes
Drinks Diet Coke
Patrick Neeman
!
Three Time Dropout
Print Design Background
Has a great goatee
Presentation has funny photos
Sophisticated Whiskey Drinker

4. @usabilitycounts
Who’s Patrick Neeman?
Almost 20 years of UX and Web Experience
Runs UsabilityCounts.com and UXDrinkingGame.com
Built several UX teams
Drinks Whiskey

5. Troy Parke

8. @uxhow | http://www.uxhow.com

9. Top 10 UX Portfolio
Questions & Answers

10. How many pieces should
be in a portfolio?

11. Be Selective
(Reviewers are too)

12. - Worst piece remembered
- Be relevant, real & ready
- Small number is enough

17. How to present and how
much detail to include?

18. Tell them a story
(The work won’t “speak for itself”)

19. To Be Continued……

20. How do I show work I did
with a group or team?

21. - Your title at the time
- Identify as group work
- Avoid dissecting screens

22. I did the
red part!

23. I did the
red part!

24. LaiYee Lori

25. Emi Matsumoto

26. Emi Matsumoto

27. Can I include student work?

28. Ideally... No.
(At least not all student work.)

29. - Show shipped work ASAP
- Take lots of photos
- Collaborate

30. Haeree Park

31. Ashlimarie Dong

32. Ashlimarie Dong

33. How do you handle NDA work?

34. Carefully

35. - Honor legal agreements
- Protect your reputation
- Managers understand

38. How do you choose
what to include?

39. Hand out roses.

40. - Representative
- Relatively recent
- Instantly recognizable

41. What do you not like seeing
missing or included?

42. Lying, NSFW & Not Online.

43. - Must be online
- Email & phone number
- NSFW content
- Lying with intention
- Lying by omission

46. How long do you spend
looking at a portfolio?

48. 10-15 Seconds
(Seriously.)

49. - Twice as long as recruiters
- Apply the 5 second test
- Team will review in detail

52. Nick Berry

53. - Who?
- What?
- Projects?

54. Nick Berry

55. What do you look for
in a portfolio?

56. Is this someone
I want to interview?

57. - Not hired for portfolio
- Gets your foot in the door
- Have to know how to…

58. your story {
UX Portfolios How to tell
Patrick Neeman
Director of Product Design, Apptio
@usabilitycounts
http://www.usabilitycounts.com
Troy Parke
Former Sr UX Design Manager, Big Fish
@uxhow
http://www.uxhow.com

59. How you tell your story
is as important as the story itself
@usabilitycounts @uxhow

60. @usabilitycounts @uxhow
Tell stories
that fit your
audience
• Designers
• Developers
• Product Managers

61. Tell stories
that sell
• Explain visually
• Light and concise
• Keep them engaged
@usabilitycounts @uxhow

62. @usabilitycounts @uxhow
Tell stories
that have an
awesome
ending
• ROI
• Results
• Outcome

63. Tell big stories
@usabilitycounts @uxhow

64. • Problem
• Process
• Involvement
• Final Product
• Press / Awards
• Outcome }Story
@usabilitycounts @uxhow

65. Examples of how
to tell your story

66. Portfolio

67. Behance

68. Behance

69. Behance

71. Portfolio

72. Portfolio

73. Portfolio

74. Portfolio

75. Presentation Deck

76. < start >

80. - Key technology acquired.
- Streaming as delivery channel.
- Long tail consumers.

83. Are download and streaming games just
fundamentally different experiences?

87. - Unusable at small size.
- Core business value was “No Ads”.
- Value of a non-paying customer.
- How to show a better experience?

93. Your games from anywhere.

94. Explain what they are getting.

95. Best experience first.

96. Integrated advertising.

97. Ratings and feedback.

98. Delayed account creation.

101. One year later…
!
- PC, Mac, Tablet, Phone & Roku.
- Over 4.5 stars with 1200 reviews.
- 300+ games with A New Game Everyday

102. Marry the problem, not the solution

103. < end >

104. Ready?

105. In theory there is no difference between
theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra

106. - Takes time and iteration
- Ask other designers
- Get coffee

107. Thank-you.

108. Questions?

109. Troy Parke | @uxhow | http://www.uxhow.com