I’m Elizabeth and I've been a design educator for 10 years! I grew up during the Neopets-era of the internet designing graphics and websites for fun. (Marquees were all the rage.) I never thought that my love for creating silly graphics with MS Paint could become a career. When it was time for college, I decided to study computer science at UC Berkeley. (Go bears 🐻!) At the time, there wasn’t an official design program or specialty. Fortunately, I found a community of design-loving students on campus who were passionate about teaching and learning from each other.
After I graduated, I worked as a product designer for a few companies in education including Khan Academy and Primer. I learned a lot about the education system, read bell hooks for the 1st time, and designed tools for both teachers and students.
In 2023, I decided to leave my full-time design role to pursue teaching full-time. I missed teaching and felt like I had something unique to say!
@@najifazaman4012 wix and squarespace are good if you want to start with a template! i find that the portfolio building tool doesn’t make a big difference in the quality of your portfolio! the work within your portfolio matters the most.
I just created my first profile interface, and I am so proud! Thank you so much for your amazing tutorials - I was excited the whole time. The way you make everything so easy to understand is incredible. Please keep making more content for beginners like me entering the UI/UX field, especially in Figma. Your videos are a game-changer!
I love the videos! I'm actually curious about your recording setup where you're capturing the screen and your camera at the same time; what software are you using to do that? I just had to do something similar to record a portfolio review and I couldn't get both webcam and screen dialed in where one or the other wasn't choppy.
OMG!! I love your video! As a student who just transferred to an interaction design-related major, I just started building my portfolio. Your comments are really straightforward and useful. I need someone like you to point out my shortcomings so I can improve. Thank you so much!
OMG!! I love your video! As a student who just transferred to an interaction design-related major, I just started building my portfolio. Your comments are really straightforward and useful. I need someone like you to point out some common shortcomings so I can improve. Sometimes I amn't even aware of it!! Thank you so much!!
I am really curious to see your take on my portfolio, especially the visual aspect. Haven't been able to get much feedback on it since I have started redoing it, don't know if you may be so kind to ever consider reviewing mine in the future 😊
i've seen many people share NDA projects before! this is taken directly from my portfolio guide (templatesbyliz.com/portfolio): If possible, share a 2-3 sentence vague description that includes the company, scope, and scale of the project. Include the project on your portfolio and put “Under NDA. Case study upon request” under the case study. For most companies, you’ll typically be allowed to share your NDA work in a presentation setting. They just don’t want your projects publicly available online. If you’re worried, double check with your manager. If you only have NDA projects, I recommend doing 1-2 side projects, so that you have public work available on your portfolio.
Hi Elizabeth! wanted to say thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate your useful insight. This video's audio is a bit too low, just something to keep in mind for future ones. Other than that it's great. Are you on twitter?
Could a give a few more examples of side projects for a product design portfolio? I do UX on the marketing side. So just the main and child sites. Occasionally feels more like web design even thought I do my best go work through the UX process when I can. If I would like to make a transition to product. Other than more certification/classes. What are some additional ways I could try and add such work to my portfolio? Thanks!
@@caseinpointsize i don't like giving specific examples for projects because part of the product design process is figuring out what projects to do! product designers should be able to (1) identify a problem and (2) find a solution by using the design process. you can consider doing passion projects and creating work for friends or family!
@@lalizlabeth Perfect thank you! I always hear at this stage (3years) it should be real world projects only. I do my best to go through the UX process with my current projects and find problems to solves within the “redesign” request. Just wasn’t sure if that would be enough. I like the idea of reaching out and trying something new. Even if that’s one “concept” project. Thanks!!!
I love the creativity! It's really inspiring and nice to see your workflow. I just wonder how would you approach this type of project with accessibility in mind though? Thanks!
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Normally I don’t comment on RU-vid, but this review moved me to. I really enjoyed the critiques on the visual design and examples of how to make it better. Looking forward to more videos!!!
I loved this video and can't wait for more. I have a feeling your channel is going to go biiigggg! 🙌 A video I'd like to see from you would be: How to show impact of work through case studies when there's no data? The company I work at does not have any analytics placed to measure what impact my designs made for the business and the users.
I second the above! Would love to see that video, how to show that you do think about data and impact/outcomes despite not being able to show such items due to constraints at work.
Hi @lalizlabeth ! First so glad I found your channel! Super helpful as I'm current rebuilding my own portfolio. As to constraints, no NDAs but more along the lines of: - Time (3 days, 2 weeks) presenting abbreviated ux process - Having strong concepts and reasoning behind design decisions but always end up building "lowest hanging fruit" version (mainly color, icons imagery updates / only shifting components up or down on the page) despite it not being the "best" solution - lack of data, lack of content/story/requirements (so some ambiguous designing) - and as above, no tracking to receive any data, after a project is complete to judge impact or know what to improve next In short, how can you showcase your abilities and knowledge in the ux process and visual design (especially as a "former graphic designer") due to the limits you have to work within.
As we have seen a lot of roast on your instagram we would also like to see some of the portfolio you really love and liked and also share both the roast and the loved case studies
thanks for your feedback! i'm planning to do that soon! i usually try to share great ones when i receive them 🥰. i feature them on both instagram and tiktok.
Roast mine if you got time. I would appreciate some honest roasting. Any pain I pay experience is only gonna help me improve ^^. Not sure how I can appropriately submit my request....
Hey Eliza, Don't get me wrong, but I follow your Instagram, and I love how transparent and insightful you are about design there. It just seems like here you're agreeing with him more because he's your friend or maybe you don't want to come off as rude. I know he tried his best as a PM to design the site his way, but I feel like you could be a bit more honest with him. You've been studying people and design for so many years, and your experience is so valuable. I think you should use that to guide him better. There are many mistakes that are quite evident from the start, and I’m sure if he wasn't your friend, you’d be more straightforward. I have seen and know your potential and knowledge on Instagram reels that why I am saying this
Would you recommend creating a portfolio on Figma and then exporting it to Framer? I am completely new to Framer and im struggling to create the portfolio on Frame alone
@@lalizlabeth yesss! It’s been a while since I’ve done a whiteboarding challenge and I’d like to learn more about how you might show your staff-level skills (strategy, scope, scale, craft) in them 🫶🏽
i've used spotify and doordash before in the past! i like these because they have so many flows to go through 🥰. apps with larger teams behind them also tend to have more inconsistencies across the product too!
Tip for when you're designing any type of list like this-just immediately go ahead and turn that first one into a component then duplicate it for the rest of your list. Makes iterating different styles for the list items way faster, e.g., you wouldn't have to select the element in each list item to move around, etc. 👍
Yes, I am aware of how to do that!!! I purposely did not create components because it's better to see your process if you do not create components. I find that components can hinder the design process if you create them too early.
@@lalizlabeth Right, I wouldn't necessarily define them as proper components, just would do it as temporary components to speed iteration up-I generally use temp components a lot of times for speed and then make proper components later. Either way works though!
