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Don’t give an imaginary metric more space than a real design decision. Show what changed and what you still haven’t measured.Put the options you rejected next to the one you chose. Explain the tradeoff. That’s something a reader can assess without a made up uplift.You can say “we didn’t track a baseline” and still have a useful case study. What evidence do you have from the design process itself?
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Can a portfolio work without client projects?
I’m applying for my first design role. My portfolio is all personal projects. I’m worried nobody will take it seriously without a client name or conversion numbers.
Show the decisions, not just the finished screens.
It’s a checkout redesign I made to learn. I changed the address step twice, but there’s no live product to measure.
Put the two address steps side by side and explain why you changed them. That gives someone a design decision to assess, even without a client logo.
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Should every portfolio project look ready to launch?
I keep hearing that unfinished work has no place in a portfolio. One prototype taught me a lot, but the screens are rough. Is it worth including?
Only include polished work. Hiring managers won’t read an explanation.
I’d keep one failed experiment if you can show what it ruled out. A gallery of half built screens is harder to make a case for.
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When does help with wording stop feeling like you?
Someone I’m getting to know sends polished replies that don’t answer what I said. Then they pasted my own message back to me. I asked what they meant and they stopped responding. Am I getting to know them or their chatbot?
I don’t mind someone getting help with words. I’d mind never finding out what they actually think.
If they pasted your own message back to you and then disappeared, I’d stop trying to work out how much was AI. They didn’t answer you.Getting help finding the words wouldn’t bother me much. Having to guess whether the other person is even in the conversation would.You asked them a pretty straightforward question. I’d leave it there rather than writing both sides of the conversation.
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I’m applying for my first design role. My portfolio is all personal projects. I’m worried nobody will take it seriously without a client name or conversion numbers. u/briefandprocess: Show the decisions, not just the finished screens. u/paperandpixels: It’s a checkout redesign I made to learn. I changed the address step twice, but there’s no live product to measure.
Help me answer this Reddit thread. The OP has no client projects or metrics. They say in a reply that they redesigned the address step twice.
They can present the checkout as a concept and explain the design choices, even without client work or metrics.
Give them one concrete thing to show. Keep it direct and skip the pep talk.
Show the two address steps side by side and explain why you changed them. You don’t need to invent a conversion result.
Can a portfolio work without client projects?
I’m applying for my first design role. My portfolio is all personal projects. I’m worried nobody will take it seriously without a client name or conversion numbers.
Show the decisions, not just the finished screens.
It’s a checkout redesign I made to learn. I changed the address step twice, but there’s no live product to measure.
Show the two address steps side by side and explain why you changed them. You don’t need to invent a conversion result.
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Can a portfolio work without client projects?
I’m applying for my first design role. My portfolio is all personal projects. I’m worried nobody will take it seriously without a client name or conversion numbers.
Show the decisions, not just the finished screens.
It’s a checkout redesign I made to learn. I changed the address step twice, but there’s no live product to measure.
Label it as a concept and show one decision properly. The bit where you changed your mind is more useful than a pretend conversion chart.Put the two address steps side by side and explain why you changed them. That gives someone a design decision to assess, even without a client logo.I’d rather see an honest checkout concept than a suspiciously perfect uplift. What made you change the address step the second time?
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Can a portfolio work without client projects?
I’m applying for my first design role. My portfolio is all personal projects. I’m worried nobody will take it seriously without a client name or conversion numbers.
Show the decisions, not just the finished screens.
It’s a checkout redesign I made to learn. I changed the address step twice, but there’s no live product to measure.
Label it as a concept and show one decision properly. The bit where you changed your mind is more useful than a pretend conversion chart.Put the two address steps side by side and explain why you changed them. That gives someone a design decision to assess, even without a client logo.I’d rather see an honest checkout concept than a suspiciously perfect uplift. What made you change the address step the second time?
The OP has a checkout concept and two revisions, not a live product. The reply uses that later comment without inventing experience or results.
When does help with wording stop feeling like you?
Someone I’m getting to know sends polished replies that don’t answer what I said. Then they pasted my own message back to me. I asked what they meant and they stopped responding. Am I getting to know them or their chatbot?
I don’t mind someone getting help with words. I’d mind never finding out what they actually think.
If they pasted your own message back to you and then disappeared, I’d stop trying to work out how much was AI. They didn’t answer you.Getting help finding the words wouldn’t bother me much. Having to guess whether the other person is even in the conversation would.You asked them a pretty straightforward question. I’d leave it there rather than writing both sides of the conversation.
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Should every portfolio project look ready to launch?
I keep hearing that unfinished work has no place in a portfolio. One prototype taught me a lot, but the screens are rough. Is it worth including?
Only include polished work. Hiring managers won’t read an explanation.
I’d keep one failed experiment if you can show what it ruled out. A gallery of half built screens is harder to make a case for.I’d give the polished projects the main space and put this one in a short process note. The rough screens need a reason to be there.“They won’t read” is a pretty broad assumption. Keep the explanation short and show the decision in the work itself.
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Explain what you would measure next, rather than making up a result.
I can show the tradeoffs. We just never tracked a baseline.