What is the real role of a design portfolio website?
What is the takeaway you want people to leave your portfolio website with?
I couldn’t avoid stepping back and asking myself “but hey, what is the real role of a design portfolio in the first place?”. Until the people engaging in that discussion align on what a portfolio’s objectives are, they won’t have any fruitful conclusions coming out of it.
Fabricio's word in reflecting the objective of a design portfolio, reminds me to take a step back and think about the questioin WHY. The discussion of the so-called "best portfolio" is fundamentally flawed, as some people judged by creativity while some judged by usability. Written by uxdesign.cc’s Fabricio Teixeira.