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We live in an extraordinary time.

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Never has it been so
easy to show off your work, or

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to see the work of other talented
designers and developers.

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This is both advantageous, and
a bit of a drawback as well.

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While you can now see
amazing works more readily,

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it's also more challenging to be noticed
if you don't know how to be seen.

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To best be seen,
you need to harness the power

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of the most appropriate meeting or
channel of communication.

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You can speak through low fidelity media,
like pen and paper, or

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high fidelity media, like video,
motion graphics, or interaction.

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We'll touch later on the advantages
of different sites like Dribble or

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GitHub to best show off your work, but for

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now, let's look at an example
of a successful portfolio.

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We're looking at the work
of a colleague of mine,

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a very talented design research at
IBM by the name of Gabby Campagna.

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The crucial stuff of a portfolio is
in the showing of the work itself.

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So we'll start with an example
that explains the work well, and

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gives us some insight into the process
that produced the end result.

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Gabby is using a platform like
Squarespace to show off her work,

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since she's not as familiar
with the coding side of things.

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You'll notice that we know her name,
her role, and

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can access previews of her work
immediately upon landing at her site.

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We'll define a checklist of these
must-haves in a later course.

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Let's choose her Erlenmeyer project to
look at how you could show your work.

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As soon as the screen loads, we're greeted
with a description of the project.

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Gabby not only touches on the nature
of what her team created,

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but she also explains the impact of
the project by pointing out that it led to

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presenting to Fortune Magazine, and
a subsequent pitch to IBM's C suite.

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She even cross references
a story she wrote for

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Medium for better social media traction.

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Next, we see the images of her team in
context of how they created the solution.

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There are images of their working
environment, as well as a progression of

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images showing the constant improvement
of fidelity in the actual project effort.

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For her About and Resume pages, you'll see
content that reflects her interests as

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well as her accomplishments, respectively.

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By the way, be sure,
if you have a resume page,

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to keep it update and in the form of
live text rather than in an image form.

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This helps with both search engine
optimization, and accessibility.

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Now that we've started
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a good portfolio, we'll discuss in
our next video how your process and

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personality can inspire those who are
interacting with your portfolio to become

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more excited about actually meeting,
and potentially working with you.