Design your way

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Creating a simple and elegant portfolio that transforms visitors into clients is not as simple as you might think.

This is relevant even when we’re talking about the portfolio of a UI or UX designer. Just a dribbble account doesn’t sell it. You need to make the visitor’s experience unique and showcase your skills in an original way.

There’s something that people have mentioned a lot online when discussing about ways to transmit a powerful message and that is by creating a great visual story.

This doesn’t mean that you can bore the prospective client. You should create a visual story, but try to keep it short; the people that are interested in your services might want to find out quick what you can do.

The visual story that you will focus on will most likely be different from one project to another, depending on what you actually worked on that project. But what you must never forget is that the thing the visitors must learn from that case study is that you can solve problems that you clients have.

Besides creating a visual story through a case study, you should also tell people your strengths and show people that you are an interesting figure. Nobody wants to work with boring people so add a bit of your character in the site’s copy.

These being said, I’m presenting you today a collection of portfolio websites from freelancers or agencies, showcasing how to create a good UI design portfolio.

UENO

ueno.co

Ueno is a full-service digital agency with offices in San Francisco and Iceland. Their clients include Airbnb, Medium, Cisco, Lonely Planet, Google, Reuters, Fitbit and Dropbox.

SFCD

sfcd.com

From mobile apps and websites to enterprise-grade systems, they apply their expertise across platforms and screens. A small and focused team, led by a partner, working directly with you. Unparalleled quality in every detail, each step of the way.

Rally Interactive

Rally Interactive

A small team of creative technologythinkers and makers, dedicated to the pursuit of bringing remarkable digital products to the world. Their manifesto wasn’t written by an agency copywriter. It’s just three words that they live by: “Let’s Go Rally”.

John Schlemmer

John Schlemmer

Motion, web and mobile design all have equal places in his heart. And he’s constantly discovering ways to uniquely integrate them.

Cuberto

Cuberto

They are creating mobile apps for more than 4 years already for different business areas. They start every project by understanding the business requirements and they offer effective solutions.

Artua

Artua

They are among those who love what they are doing! GUI development, icons and logos design, illustrations drawing and mobile application development – all these things do inspire them!

RAMOTION

RAMOTION

Ramotion is a rock solid design team.
They combine an innate instinct for good design with a keen understanding of real world business challenges—they also happen to produce wonderful, beautiful work.

Oykun

Oykun

Oykun, a self-taught designer for digital products from London, fueled with curiosity and passion for simplicity in design.

Josh Hemsley

Josh Hemsley

Designer based in Orange County, CA. Josh Hemsley is currently Partner & Director of Product at ENVOY. Previously led design at companies like MyEnergy, Nest, Sevenly, Kreyos and more.

Piotr Adam Kwiatkowski

Piotr Adam Kwiatkowski

A Visual Designer based in London, UK. He designs for mobile, web and desktop.

Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite

He’s a Web, UI and Branding designer from Newport Beach, CA passing the time in Birmingham, Al. Currently working with the amazing crew at Focus Lab as Interactive Director.

Kreativa Studio

Kreativa

Focusing on design and development of websites, applications, logotypes and more, they always use modern technologies and try to solve their clients’ problems in new and unique ways.

Mariusz Ciesla

Mariusz Ciesla

He’s a self-taught interaction & user interface designer based in Berlin, firmly believing that user experience is about the ideas and process, not the artifacts. That’s why he’s been taking on various design and product development roles in his career to be able to understand all the ins and outs of the process and help you and your developers deliver the product that your users will love.

Cody James Sielawa

Cody James Sielawa

Immensely passionate designer who believes in pushing boundaries while thriving on high-energy collaboration and paying meticulous attention to detail.

Leo Drapeau

Leo Drapeau

He’s a 22 years old french Designer. He graduated a Bachelor Degree in Web Design from a school in Paris called EEMI. He’s deeply passionate about Design and he’s interested in everything that is related to the visual fields, from cinematography to photography or advertising.

Jackie Tran

Jackie Tran

El Passion

El Passion

They love to work with startups because they are as passionate as them about their products. Whether you need a brand new app, a full website redesign or just some sprucing up of current products, they want to help and make your startup dream a reality.

Brian Plemons

Brian Plemons

Underbelly

Underbelly

They’re artists and craftsmen who love to create sophisticated strategies, innovative user experiences, and enduring brands. They don’t stop tinkering until the work inspires.

Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer is a San Francisco based product designer. Until recently he worked at Facebook as part of Creative Labs. Before that, he helped bring art to the cart as a product designer for Big Cartel.

Janna Hagan

Janna Hagan

Janna Hagan is a designer who is currently living in Toronto, Canada. Graduating with experience in both design and marketing, she has over 5 years of freelancing experience. She’s had the privilege to work with many clients, both large and small, from around the world.

DINE

DINE

With their enthusiasm and pursuit for perfect design and very little interest in wild growth, they co-founded DINE as a boutique design and branding studio. All they care about is creating perfect design and usable products that can contribute to better living.

Ilja Miskov

Ilja Miskov

Currently I live in Tallinn, Estonia. He’s a freelancer, and currently available for work. Also, he’s looking for options to work at a company in a nice country.

Handsome

Handsome

They design and develop beautiful and successful interactive products on all web and mobile platforms for startups and the world’s most forward thinking brands.

Greg Dlubacz

Greg Dlubacz

He’s a UI/Visual Designer based in Malta, Sliema who just loves interesting, unique, creative and functional projects prepared with utmost attention to detail.

Ben Garratt

Ben Garratt

He loves solving problems through design, he doesn’t just paint by numbers – he’s well versed in creating wireframes and user flows and ensuring a consistently quality UX across Marketing websites and Application interfaces. He dabbles in a bit of copywriting, especially ‘human sounding’ messaging within interfaces.

Beasty

Beasty

Fred is addicted to UI / UX design. I design iOS apps, Website and Mac OS apps. All his projects need to have the best user experience.

Aaron Sananes

Aaron Sananes

Adam Rudzki

Adam Rudzki

He is a young designer and art director and currently lives in Warsaw. He works on digital creations, web design and more.

Jason Yoo

Jason Yoo

Jason Yoo is a designer who thinks deeply about the purpose of a product. He dreams to travel all over the world while working with interesting people and amazing projects.



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