ASK DN: What should I focus my portfolio on?
over 9 years ago from Andrew Richardson, UX Designer @ Bluebeam, Inc.
I'm currently in the process of redesigning my portfolio. As we web designer who's been working for nearly two years for a company I've acquired quite a bit of work to show from that. The problem is it's all for the same company, it doesn't really show a lot of variety, and while I could probably add a lot of content (Framework creation, style guidelines, entire website redesign) because the amount of work I've done is huge I don't know if it's compelling enough to just have one enormous project on my portfolio.
On the other hand I have a large variety of freelance projects that I've been doing on the side. They are mostly infographic/data visualization works I've done (Web related but mostly Illustration/layout work and not web design or development). I have a variety of work in this area though it doesn't show a lot of depth, they are mostly one offs I did for this or that company.
I feel like it's odd to have one large web project and a bunch of non-web projects in my portfolio. I'm a big fan of portfolios that focus on a single discipline like:
http://isaacpvl.com/index.html
or
I don't feel like I can accomplish this with the projects I have though, as it'll just feel either empty or inconsistent.
What would you do in my situation?
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