Presenting portfolio projects in a design interview

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One of the key steps in a product design interview process is a portfolio presentation. Typically, you'll have ~60 minutes to present your portfolio to the team - highlight your past work and guiding them through your design process. This is a key part of the interview that could make or break it. To help you prepare and in collaboration with Zach Grosser from Zacht Studios you can download a free portfolio presentation template to use in your next interview.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - The portfolio presentation
2:20 - Presentation framework: About Me
3:40 - Presentation framework: Case Studies
7:20 - Presentation framework: Final Pitch
8:30 - Free Figma template
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@femkedesign Год назад

Get the template here: femke.ck.page/portfolio-presentation

@masha3365 3 года назад

Watching this made me kinda sad. Why do designers nowadays have to put together not only portfolios but also these presentations? It's like a second portfolio, also with the About me section, and Design philosophy and thoughts, and case studies.. double work. Why engineers, PMs, and everyone else do not have to do this? (just a rhetorical question). Like for example, PM would put a website with their projects, and how they made all their PM decisions, and what were roadmaps, and deadlines, and how the project went off. And then they would also create a pdf of the same project but with more pictures.. and add their PM philosophy there (whatever it is).. but no, they can just send a CV over and go practice interviewing.. heh.

@alisonsalbum 2 года назад

I agree, esp for the PM part. Engineers have lots of coding challenges, but I wonder how PMs put together their work.

@seven11dmd Год назад

You don't. This is so overkill. Build your portfolio website. Make sure work is well rounded and explains what you did (and what you didn't). Your portfolio gets you in the door. You shouldn't be showing up with a 2nd presentation. You should be prepared to walk me through projects on your website and talk about them in depth. Don't make a presentation telling me who you are. I have already looked at your website, your resume, your LinkedIn profile, and that's why you're in the door interviewing.

@masha3365 Год назад

@@seven11dmd Thanks, Dan.

@vykanguyen9677 Год назад

I don't think this presentation is a must, but it definitely is interesting and make you stand out among cookie cutter designers from bootcamp. The market is oversaturated, so this presentation can really make a great impression and show how you care about design in a more personal way. Companies and teams look for personality not only skill. I hope that makes it less sad, and more motivating! Good luck

@Mike604 Год назад

Agree totally, however if the recruiter was the one who interviewed you, the product designer in the later stages don’t know who you are?

@ItsYukiToo 3 месяца назад

Having an interview tomorrow and this video really helped me figure out how to structure my slide deck. Manifesting some postive outcomes~

@Valerieotutu 2 месяца назад

I hope it went well!

@joyalmazan 3 года назад

Your channel is amazing! In less than an hour, I've learned SO MUCH! Thank you for sharing all this knowledge

@aoimeetspiano1395 3 года назад

I've been listening your podcast with Charlie and that's how I found you on RU-vid. Your contents are truly inspirational and informative, they've driven me to blush up my side project from Sunday morning:) Thanks for your contribution and plz keep it up!

@tinaaaaw 4 года назад

Femke! This is perfect timing. I’m doing a mock presentation with Hexagon UX tomorrow and probably would’ve forgotten the developer communication part. As always, appreciate your videos and tips!

@rosieway5811 3 года назад

Thanks Femke! This video is awesome! I wish I found this video before my interview yesterday 🤯 with a case study design decks in hand, it is definitely far way easy to go through the Portfolio instead of scrolling my Portfolio website on the spot via zoom screen sharing 🙃however, it is also because of that interview I found your video :) and learn this key lesson! Thanks Femke!

@marimar5279 Год назад

Thanks to you I literally got my first job, I followed this video as a guideline to present my take-home. Here I am almost 2 years later trying to get a new job and doing the same things again. Thank you so much!!!

@lindseynorberg7313 2 года назад

I just wanted to say I followed this structure for creating a 40-page slide deck presentation with a top tech company and just landed a job with it. One interview, that's all! So, THANK YOU!!!!

@femkedesign 2 года назад

That's amazing Lindsey! Congrats!!!

@Caitlinsowers 4 года назад

As a new product designer these videos are so helpful! So glad to have found your channel 👏🏼

@elizabeth4689 3 года назад

Femke this is an amazing resource for people jobhunting! It also eases the burnout from the job applicatoon process

@furquanahmad4657 3 года назад

Zach has some really awesome presentation templates on Figma community! Great video Femke.

@brnrmr_ 4 года назад

Thank you so much, I'm gonna search this video again when I start with it, such good information!!

@talalsabbagh 3 года назад

Hi Femke, thank you so much for the great content, with the help of this video, my portfolio presentation landed me a job at Amazon, thanks again and keep up the superb work :)

@guudey 4 года назад

Thanks Femke! I love you!! I love the tip about the final pitch, I never thought of that and I think it adds a nice touch to the presentation!

@ededdyedward 3 года назад

Same! The testimonial portion seems like it would be very impactful!

@iamrobertsmart 3 года назад

Awesome video. Some time back I was actually asked to present 3 examples of my work but because of time constraints, I only managed to present one. Fortunately the interview was done remotely so I took the opportunity to show the process that follow. II went through the user persona, wireframes, sitemap, design, prototype etc. It was just easier for me to show how I usually go about working on projects.

@HeyYulia 4 года назад

thanks, Femke! super helpful as usual 🔥

@pjonesg 3 года назад

Thank you for this! I have an agency portfolio review interview Wednesday and this is great 🤘🏼

@zuojianing1800 3 года назад

OMG, that's exactly what I need at this moment! Loved it.

@jswanson859 3 года назад

This was very helpful. I'm going to revamp my website and portfolio this month and could will be using this template for the interviews I plan on having for potential new jobs. Thanks for sharing.

@tollerton 3 года назад

This is super useful. Thank you Femke!

@manny9482 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video! I’m getting anxious about my full day interview including portfolio review and your channel is helping so much!

@Tbland0930 2 года назад

Did you get the job??

@manny9482 2 года назад

@@Tbland0930 not exactly for this job, but got another one using the same format! I didn't follow exactly what she said, kinda looked at different videos on RU-vid, and used things I think are great, but this is definitely the foundation I used, and there are so many good pointers!

@alliekaatt 2 года назад

I am in interior design but this is a super relevant to me as well - very helpful structure on how to present ! Thank you

@coreypolk4842 3 года назад

So helpful and concise! Thank you!

@1996pauleta 3 года назад

Thank you so much! really valuable information that you bring to the table. Wish me luck on my portfolio presentation interview tomorrow haha

@renansm 4 года назад

I'm from Brazil and I'm starting in UX design, I really liked your channel. congratulations =)

@kayaar4048 3 года назад

Thanks ! Quick and informative.

@nizam776 3 года назад

I love your channel, thank you for sharing your work with all :)

@femkedesign 3 года назад

You are so welcome!

@suave-alpaca8412 4 года назад

Thank so much Femke! Im searching for a job so I have to be prepared for the interview and honest to God, I have no idea how to present my work well

@rovencekabahinda6462 2 года назад

Thanks Femke, its precise and straight to the point

@femkedesign 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@mikegonzalez583 3 года назад

this is more helpful than you know. thank you thank you thank you! especially for all of the resources in the bio. this is giving me so much confidence and clarity in my approach as i prep for a review.

@femkedesign 3 года назад

You're very welcome!

@techieendou8778 3 года назад

Thanks, Great Video 😀

@Milamilamila842 4 года назад

I love it!!

@imsamcastillo 3 года назад

Thank you!!

@blvckcreativestudio 2 года назад

This was great even though I was searching for product photography portfolio creating this video still was able to help me so much and pretty much give me most of my answers! Thank youuu

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Ooh that's so great to hear! Glad it helps :)

@venstonvedasto 3 года назад

tomorrow i have a portifolio presentation this is so helpful

@okaymoonstorm Год назад

I present my portfolio as my final assignment tomorrow, thank you so much for this!

@femkedesign Год назад

Hope it went well!

@okaymoonstorm Год назад

@@femkedesign it DID!! I won!! And I was told “if I had to hire someone today, it would be you” 🥰

@helyazand6441 3 года назад

Hi Femke, this is awesome! Do you have any recommendations for UX research presentations?

@mohamedmaidomi6210 3 года назад

Thanks for this information

@mohamedmaidomi6210 3 года назад

@@femkedesign 😊❤❤

@cieracox2751 3 года назад

This is so helpful!

@femkedesign 3 года назад

Glad you think so!

@luciadavison5863 3 года назад

WOW! What an amazing video. Can you tell me how you made this video and what platforms you used? How did you transition so seemlessly from you talking to us to your sharing your slide deck back to you talking to us?

@mcox2381 2 года назад

Great video!!

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@blank998 Год назад

thank you

@pilarmoto 3 года назад

Thank you very much, I'm currently looking for a job, so this really helps! Greetings from Mexico ;)

@femkedesign 3 года назад

Best of luck!

@asmrbee9979 2 года назад

Thank you thank you ❤️

@femkedesign 2 года назад

You are so welcome

@fatoldpal 2 года назад

very good video, thank you

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Thank you!

@DriveByConversations 2 года назад

Very helpful thanks 😊

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@veronicajones1568 3 года назад

Great video although I have some reservations about the design & structure of the slides. I want to know why these presentation slide decks have so much information? Just as much information as a website portfolio. When you are presenting a slide deck, isn't it distracting to the audience to have paragraphs on a slide? For a design interview would it not be more engaging to make the slides interactive so the audience doesn't become overwhelmed with the information being presented? I'm a little confused at this video advising folks to use so much texts and read off of slides as it seems a little elementary. Once again, great advice on the information to share in a presentation, but I think advising people to read a paragraph off of a slide is a poor decision.

@jy-sailormercury4124 2 года назад

Yeah, take this with a grain of salt. It's kind of annoying when content creators feed bad advice and don't acknowledge it. Gatekeepers in disguise!

@BuzzyBee11 Год назад

I agree her information is great. But showing too many words on a slide presentation is boring.

@product_designer_lp 7 месяцев назад

Hi Femke! Very helpful video🙏🏼 I just have a question: some people suggest asking the interviewer what projects he wants you to talk through in the beginning of the interview while others suggest preparing a presentation with your favourite projects and get ready to present them. What do you think is better based on your experience?

@IsaSteenbergen 4 года назад

You talk about the hand-off to engineers/developers and how to work with them. Do you have a video, or any tips on how to do that? Thanks for this video :)

@bryanmcb19 4 года назад

This is a great video. One questions do most UX designers have a live app and website in the works. I ask that because I have not learned html and css yet.

@sanjusahu 2 года назад

Thank you quite a help

@femkedesign 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@candidofinda1095 Год назад

very good your lesson

@femkedesign Год назад

Cheers!

@MCandMosRandomChannel Год назад

Just checking im looking at the right thing here. … I was meant to create a portfolio of my past work for a graduate job with Deloitte. Thanks.

@vickypan3250 3 года назад

Hi! I'm finding your videos really helpful =) Wondering if you have thoughts on what kinds of points are good to go over in the Final Pitch section or examples of the kinds of details you've included there?

@leoactions 2 года назад

Hi Vicky, did you. get any details for this part

@goatjunie0720 2 года назад

Hello Femke! I just want to say so bad! I appreciate so much (:

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Thanks!

@Amayaaa-3- 3 года назад

This video helped so much with and upcoming college project! Thank you so much as I had no idea what to include in a portfolio presentation!! Just to be clear is case studies like work experience or just work you have done?

@Amayaaa-3- 3 года назад

@@femkedesign ah thank you so much! We have to present a portfolio for a uni project and had no idea how to do about it! Thank you so much. ❤️❤️

@anisaskeja6356 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing this valuable information! Is it okay to have projects that live in different places? I do have one presentation that I've made in Figma but the other in Canva. Is it a deal breaker if I present them separately and then the final pitch separately?

@roter13 3 года назад

Ok so should this be a powerpoint presentation? I'm still not sure how to structure it. I know that you provided a template but what other ways are there to do it?

@wge621 Год назад

hey Femke, wanted to say that I got surprisingly good feedback when including the 'final pitch' portion in my presentation. such a good idea to include snapshots of what my peers said in performance reviews. the interviewers even said that they could see the feedback demonstrated in how i presented my portfolio. it felt quite weird to brag about myself, but I guess that's something I need to work on, anyway: being confident about myself and my achievements, instead of always striving for humility at the expense of my own succes. thanks again!

@femkedesign Год назад

So glad to hear that!!! Sounds like the presentation went well, nice job!

@lucyhodgkinson-fisher7355 3 года назад

Hi Femke, I'm so glad you make these videos - they're so informative! You've inspired me to start creating my own portfolio presentation slide deck. One question: I prefer to have VERY few words on my slide deck and mainly speak to visuals. However, I noticed the template you provided had quite a lot of text. Was this so the panel could read and understand your slide deck even without needing you there to explain it? Thanks so much!

@lucyhodgkinson-fisher7355 3 года назад

@@femkedesign Thank-you!! Totally makes sense as the slide deck could be something they review later. Thanks again :D

@guilhermeacardozo 2 года назад

Amazing tips. It's the second time you've commented about the final pitch, and I find it very helpful! I'm not sure how to put a project I've collaborated on in my portfolio. The project was started by another designers and I took over and completed it. Do you have any recommendations on this or what are the best practices to document in this way in the portfolio?

@femkedesign 2 года назад

I think you can just be honest about that and start off with the project context and background, then pick up the design process where the previous design left off and you started!

@guilhermeacardozo 2 года назад

Thanks for the reply, Femke! It was very helpful. I will do it! Greetings from Brazil : )

@Marina-ub3js 6 месяцев назад

Hello Femke, may I know what is the difference between a presentation shown as per the video and the case studies shown on a website? Does one need to have both?

@Kriti-fv2ys 2 года назад

This is quite insightful Femke & thanks for sharing this, but what if you are a fresher with just personal case studies? Any tips ?

@femkedesign 2 года назад

You might find this video helpful: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i-b7_acZcAg.html

@davidpicarazzi 3 года назад

Subscribed :D

@mayhanguyen 3 года назад

Hi Femke, thanks for this video! Tried to subscribe to get the presentation Figma template but the subscription confirmation won't load/process.

@mayhanguyen 3 года назад

@@femkedesign Cheers, seems like it was just buggy, works now. Thank you!

@jlee3320 3 года назад

Femke / Design RU-vidr me too :(( I submitted the form about three times but I haven't received any mail yet.

@jlee3320 3 года назад

Femke / Design RU-vidr I sent you mail pls check thank you

@smilli6415 2 года назад

Femke , do you recommond showong full design process like sketches etc on portfolios or just highlights like what you did on yours , i see lot of confusion on how various designers present it differently

@femkedesign 2 года назад

In the context of a presentation I would focus on telling the story of the project, not necessarily which artefacts to show. What were some interesting challenges in the project? How can you share and talk about these challenges in a visual and engaging way? What was your process for tackling these challenges?

@mariapavlova2575 2 года назад

Wow is it really like that? I have never heard about the presentation. Is it a common case when you have a prepared presentation with case studies?

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Very common in tech!

@jacquelyn4374 3 года назад

is it a bad idea to walk through portfolio items from your website?

@ketoweightloss9825 2 года назад

So basically this hiring process is not for introverts, only extroverts will get hired. What is the point of presenting a portfolio when it speaks for itself. Seriously hours spent building a portfolio, then an hour each presenting it to multiple recruiters seems redundant, a waste of time. That's possibly 1 unpaid hour x 100's of interviews. Tell me you didn't read my portfolio without telling me you didn't read my portfolio 🙃 Maybe I won't work for a company that doesn't pay attention initially when looking at my portfolio. A normal interview and a whiteboard presentation is all that should be required unless the company plans to pay me, at minimum $50 hr, for my interview, and whiteboard hours time.

@femkedesign 2 года назад

You're not wrong! Interviewing is time consuming and can be repetitive when you have to do the same presentation each time. I wish it could be better.

@m.design 2 года назад

Hey, I have cerated one slide deck and would love to get your feedback on that.

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Happy to! You can book a mentoring session with me here: www.superpeer.com/femke

@scut55 3 месяца назад

It would be helpful if you identify they type of design you are addressing in the video title.

@raghavnegi6932 3 года назад

What if it is a personal project and it was never released?

@vincychen1114 Год назад

Hey I clilcked the link and got subscribed but I can't find the link to the template. Could you help me with the direction thanks!

@femkedesign Год назад

Please email me and I can help you out! hi@femke.design

@rafaelmedina2839 3 года назад

Awesome video, even though I was never able to get the template even tho tried many emails and check spam and other folders :(

@rafaelmedina2839 3 года назад

@@femkedesign That's so cool of you, thank you so much.

@Karin23Karina Год назад

Can I use this tip for digital marketing portfolio interview?

@femkedesign Год назад

I'm not familiar with what the expectations are for a digital market so am unsure!

@wendyluo7549 2 года назад

no wonder you got hired :)

@femkedesign 2 года назад

Haha thank you for the compliment :)

@nosoynadaoriginal 2 месяца назад

What I don't get is how are you supposed to have all that If you just graduated? It's impossible.

@salmanpersian 3 года назад

Hi Femke, submitted the form but didn't receive any link, already sent you an email too, please check, thanks!

@alkesh482 4 года назад

Make a video on how to make an awesome case study and show examples okay.

@alkesh482 4 года назад

@@femkedesign Thank for the link. Actually from past 3 days I started watching your videos and I am liking it really.

@biswadeep9522 3 года назад

If someone is new to a UX Design job and never had a real-time project to show, then how to show or present the pet project, can you make a video for freshers

@ivankostovski9999 3 года назад

Is it just me or that example deck was way too word heavy? Thanks for the video tho!

@femkedesign 3 года назад

Thanks Ivan for the feedback! You can of course remove any content you don't need, think of it as a modifiable template. If you are sending in a presentation and not there to present it, i do think there's benefits to having some more content on the slides for example.

@VinnyTheory 3 года назад

Change the title of your RU-vid channel, hope this helps don’t let it stress you - fellow RU-vidr

@fortyozsteak 4 года назад

This is the biggest waste of time for both employers and job seekers. You get no feel for how you’ll work together and employers can just read the case study on the portfolio. This is truly lazy interviewing. Spend the hour collaborating on a challenge, project, or white boarding.