Design your way

Monday, August 12, 2013

Making a portfolio for yourself is a pretty difficult task considering the fact that clients will judge your abilities by the techniques that you used in your portfolio. However, this doesn’t mean that you should add effects and animations to your portfolio just to impress the visitors of your site.

Instead, making it clean, easy to navigate while making the visitors to click to your work showcase is the best way to transform your visitors into clients.

There are some trends that designers are following when designing their portfolios, but trends are ephemeral and they don’t seem to stay very long. This means that you should adapt to the latest web techniques and also the latest UX studies in order to create a portfolio that is both beautiful and usable, so that it will impress, entertain and also satisfy the visitor’s curiosity regarding you and your work.

Making it unique

Even if most portfolio websites are based on a template or WordPress theme and they all look similar, there are designers who actually care about their image and showcase their work on a website that was actually built by them from scratch.

This makes their websites innovative due to the fact that they break some standards and ignore the regular layouts that everyone seems to be using nowadays. This creativity, if it wasn’t obvious anyway, leads to more clients so pay attention next time you want to decide between using a template and creating something yourself.

In this article there are beautiful examples of modern portfolio websites. I hope this collection will inspire you in creating a portfolio that is modern, beautiful, usable and impressive at the same time.