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Posted by Adam Fichman
Adam Fichman
9,502 Points

Best and Worst Portfolios

So I came across these two articles today. One is a blog post where designer Alex Cornell discusses what he believes to be terrible trends in portfolio site designs and follows it up with an example. The other post is a collection of 200 Portfolio sites for inspiration.

After reading Alex Cornell's post about bad portfolio trends (and agreeing with it), I found it pretty alarming that a lot of the portfolios in the collection for inspiration are guilty of a lot of, if not all, of the bad habits mentioned. In the collection, Mat Helme's portfolio is the first one shown off. It does what the Alex's post suggests to do, and get's straight to the content everyone wants to see, which in a portfolio, is the work you've done. However, an alarming majority of the other's have all the cliches and unnecessary content clouding up their work.

What are your thoughts?

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The advice of things to avoid is stuff I agree with.

There's one more I would add, being too cool for school adding a "neat" navigation method at the expense of the user's experience because "hey I'm a designer I have to show out-of-the-box and love of cutting edge CSS". Personally I want a website's nav to have good UX, save the bleeding edge stuff for codepen or an "CSS experiments" section.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Hey James,

Would you mind providing an example of a navigation like the one you speak of?

Thanks!