im also self-taught designer and got my first design job after 8 months. i didn't have a portfolio but what helped me landed the job and more projects was CONNECTIONS. even now i still dont have a portfolio lol. the lesson here is, put yourself out there and start networking.
I am currently learning about UX Design and I must say you are truely a gem , you share things which other people dont even talk about. Thank you and please keep posting about UX stuff. :)
I love your videos because you share things that people don’t talk about. I’ve been struggling to present my portfolio well and these tutorials are really helpful.
this is very helpful. I must say as a UX master student in my last semester I am disappointed they taught us NOTHING related to building a portfolio. I sent feedback to the school so they will hopefully incorporate this for future students.
I’m so glad that you find this helpful! I have a few more videos on portfolio too, don’t forget to go to my channel and check them out. And yes, most master programs can’t keep up with the speed of the industry. Glad you are searching for resource outside of school and investing in yourself.
This highly demanded video takes you through how to design your first UX design portfolio. This video focuses on how to design and build the portfolio home page.
I liked your way of keeping your personal identity and data away from the public, such as your LinkedIn account. I hope you will produce a video soon about what we should show and what not, from your point of view and experience. I will wait for this from you🚀❤
No worries at all! Next episode coming soon! (Soon in the sense of one to two weeks because it takes forever to make a video hahahah) hope everything is going well on your side 🥰🔥
Glad it helped! I edited out 80% of the time where I clicked the wrong buttons, wait for the site to load, etc. Don't worry if it doesn't look easy for you. I still got lost all the time I just cut it out so that you guys don't need to see it 😂
This was sooo helpful! Thank you for all the gems. I just have one feedback.. the background music is kind of distracting. Please reduce the volume in your future videos.
Hello Aliena, Thanks for your good job. Please I'm new Ux Design learner. I'm working by myself and really need someone to discuss my practices with. Could you please assist me?
I have been in packaging design and I would like to move to the UIxUX field. So I taught myself and I actually don't have an actual project. If I do UI redesign other Existing company for my portfolio, It will help me for get a job?
After inputting my password on the password protected box and clicked on Save, I was taking to a page to make payment... but that a different from yours, please what should I do ?
It's currently live at alienacai.squarespace.com with the password ilovedesign; There's no much detail in it though since I created this demo portfolio just for this video. My personal portfolio is at elenacai.com
Hi!! greetings from Colombia :) I have 2 questions for you... I want to finish the Google certificate by May 31st. I'm already in course 2. I'm studying aprox 3 hours a day. Do you think is possible to accomplish that? And also, would you say that half a month is enough for doing the 6th course and another half month to do the 7th? (studying 3 hours a day) I love your content! Thank you in advance
Good question! I think if you are studying 3h a day you will be able to finish by May 31st 👍👍🔥 I want to point out that the timing is not fully on your control though, because there are around two rounds of user interviews for each project (1st project for course 1-5, 2nd project for course 6, and 3rd project for course 7). And if you want to take the most from the course, I suggest to seek opportunities for real life projects (collaborate with other designers/ software engineers/ work with actual clients). Or else, what you can do is to do three personal projects with a smaller interview scope to populate your first UX portfolio. This will be much more manageable in your case with the time constraint. And then you can use the three projects from the Google certificate to find a real life project, and then swap the real life project with one of the case study from Google certificate and find a full time role (Hope all these make sense! ) All the best!! ❤️
Im on my 4th week of coursera which week do they start teaching you how to make websites and designs using figma and adobe? and was shadowing a student an assignment from the coursera ux program?
You will learn about Figma starting from the third course. I know, it takes patience to go through the foundations to get to the tools. For my portfolio, shadowing a student was not part of the coursera course project. That was an internship program I did before more focusing on research. Hope this answers your question 👍
I actually considered that and decided not. I think if you want more job guarantee you can go with a bootcamp (with you can pay after you get the job). It is cheaper than diploma and provide you more actual work experience to showcase in your portfolio.
😂good to find my learning sister! I saw these courses and since I’m paying a monthly fee for them anyways, I just started to take all the courses that interest me 😄😄
This video was so good!! Thank you! I’m slowly pivoting into ux designing! I am currently a technical recruiter you definitely just eased my anxiety. I’m excited to get started and begin studying!
Hello Aliena, I don’t know if you’ll even see this but in case you do, I want to say thank you very much. I have been feeling very scared and intimidated by creating a portfolio and you have just wiped all that worry away. Thank you for being a great teacher and for sharing your knowledge. Thank you, thank you.
Hey Aliena! Currently I teach Business English to mainly Russian IT guys, many of whom are pursuing UX/UI as a future career. Also, I'm planning to do the Google UX course myself next year! Like you, I plan to be totally self-taught. I love your approach and I'm looking forward to learning more from someone who has been through the journey! I'll definitely see you more next year! Thanks!
Hi, the Google course is a very good start and probably the best when it comes to the money/value ratio. I would 100% recommend it. The one small thing I would also recommend is not to stop at that course; find another course as well. The one problem with the Google course is that it teaches how to be a UX Designer at Google, focusing on their processes and approaches. That is not how 99% of companies work. So, definitely start with that course and then consider finding another course (many of them are free on UA-cam) or perhaps a course with a reputable certificate. Hope that help you :)
A millions THANKS for making me find building a Porfolio bit easy for me unlike before. I have spent day, week searching for how to build a porfolio for myself. You are a real Mentor!
Thank you so so much for letting me know that my content is valuable. I spent years struggling with portfolio building. Still need to improve myself. Will share my learning in this channel!
I'm actually 1.5 years into learning how to be a full stack developer on my own. It feels like chasing my own tail when trying to learn on my own but even watching your videos regarding UX design helps me structure my project goals. Currently working on my second web portfolio from scratch ( for practice of course ) and I am currently struggling with designing it just as much as coding it. So thank you for this awesome content Aliena!
Good question. Usually I will export from Figma using *5 jpg for my design assets. For wireframes where I need to take a screenshot, I'm using mac so I just use the built in screenshot function. Hope this helps 😊
Thank you sooo much for this! I personally am so into minimalism and some kind of flat designs. So this one so far the most suitable reference for me to create my portfolio. Hey btw, I'm also pivoting to UI/UX design from a German teacher 😄I'm very open to, like, a collaborative project to build a portfolio. Pls kindly hit me up for that 😃
I just don't like the idea to have to pay for a place to share my portfolio. Have mine on wix and received some feedback like : it looks unprofessional to have your website without a proper domain. 😶
Thanks for the video, I would not have chosen to delete the templates already provided by squarespace, I find it easier and faster to put the front images, but why not.
This is quite helpful. Thank you. I'm building my portfolio from scratch using Webflow. It's such a pain. Hopefully I'm not wasting my time when I could be using a template. But I want to prove that I can design a website without a template
Glad it was helpful! It's a great skill to know Webflow as a designer. I've used it too and the learning curve was not easy at first. But the design of webflow resemble more of what front engineers actually need to work with. I think it's going to benefit you in the long run and keep it up!
I'm currently in the final stretch of finishing the Google UX Design course and am still finding things a bit nerve wracking. Thank you for making this video! I was incredibly nervous about making a portfolio.
Hi :) From my experience, creating a portfolio will never become 100% easy, maybe just easier. Even when I am building a portfolio, I am stressing, and sending that portfolio by clicking the 'send' button on the job application feels every time like the first time. So, that is definitely an experience that everyone has. One thing I can recommend (if you're interested in a recommendation) is to go through your portfolio with a mentor on ADPList. It's free and can help you prepare your portfolio and not be so nervous about 'Could I have made it better?' and all those thoughts that usually go through your head when a recruiter doesn't answer :) Hope that helps :)
Hi Aliena, thanks for the great content! I was wondering if there is any way that we can import our diagrams or customer journey map into squarespace in a format other than images? I want them to be very high quality..
Hi, I think using images is the best option, especially when it comes to speed optimization. Creating something more complex can potentially cause problems when opening websites from different devices or browsers. A small hack or tip: diagrams are good, but in 98% of the cases, no one will look into them in detail. Most of the time, the UX Lead will scan them and expect you to present them (if you, of course, get a chance to do so). So, even though I am not sure how to upload a diagram in another format, I would probably ask more in-depth questions like 'Why would you want to display the diagram in better quality in the first place?' and 'Will the benefits outweigh the potential time spent on solving that or the potential problems?' I just analyzed 312 UX Portfolios, and to be honest, everyone was using images. Hope that helps :) even though I did not answer the question :))))
Thank you so much for this video! very helpful and one of the best on here for a beginner who just learnt the basics of UXD. all others tell you the importance of portfolio, case studies, do's and don'ts but leave you blank on how to basically go about with the steps on how to get started on creating one.
im also self-taught designer and got my first design job after 8 months. i didn't have a portfolio but what helped me landed the job and more projects was CONNECTIONS. even now i still dont have a portfolio lol.
the lesson here is, put yourself out there and start networking.
I totally agree with you that connections matter a lot! My social media present has also helped me in a way.
I'm currently doing my Google UX Design course peer review and I'm watching your video as motivation to become a UX designer. Thank you so much.
That's awesome! Wish you all the best!
What course are you taking now? I just finished the course 2, Enter part 3!
@@chibuezeuchegbu4291 Wow! I'm almost done with course 2 heading into course 3 too. Congrats love you got this!
Can I ask how are you finding the course so far?
@@malaikakialam it's pretty good actually
I am currently learning about UX Design and I must say you are truely a gem , you share things which other people dont even talk about. Thank you and please keep posting about UX stuff. :)
Wow, thank you!
I love your videos because you share things that people don’t talk about. I’ve been struggling to present my portfolio well and these tutorials are really helpful.
You are so welcome! I'm really happy to help. All the best ❤️
Amazing and honest! I've watched so many videos on this subject, but Aliena gets to the point and cuts out the unnecessary. Thank you :P
Thank you ❤️
this is very helpful. I must say as a UX master student in my last semester I am disappointed they taught us NOTHING related to building a portfolio. I sent feedback to the school so they will hopefully incorporate this for future students.
I’m so glad that you find this helpful! I have a few more videos on portfolio too, don’t forget to go to my channel and check them out. And yes, most master programs can’t keep up with the speed of the industry. Glad you are searching for resource outside of school and investing in yourself.
You are literally the best, I've been looking fo
Thank you!
This highly demanded video takes you through how to design your first UX design portfolio. This video focuses on how to design and build the portfolio home page.
Cannot thank you enough for all of your content, it is so much appreciated. ❤
This is fantastic. Exactly what I need!
Thank you!
Beautiful man, you're the only one who could help me, I watched 8 videos and yours was the only one that saved me
I liked your way of keeping your personal identity and data away from the public, such as your LinkedIn account.
I hope you will produce a video soon about what we should show and what not, from your point of view and experience.
I will wait for this from you🚀❤
On my way to be UX designer. Your videos are very helpful. Appreciated.
Thank you so much! All the best 🥰
you're heaven sent Aliena thank you for this video!
No worries at all! Next episode coming soon! (Soon in the sense of one to two weeks because it takes forever to make a video hahahah) hope everything is going well on your side 🥰🔥
Everything is great Aliena, hope the same for you. & I can't wait! I've got my notifications turned on lol
You made it look so easy, I was struggling trying to understand how the site worked. Thank you so much!
Glad it helped! I edited out 80% of the time where I clicked the wrong buttons, wait for the site to load, etc. Don't worry if it doesn't look easy for you. I still got lost all the time I just cut it out so that you guys don't need to see it 😂
OMG! I'm amazed about how you make things easy and simple! I've Learned so much with this one video! Thank you =)
I'm so glad!
Thank you Aliena! This is really a gold-mind for introduction on building personal portfolio showcase website! Thanks and keep up the good work!
Glad it was helpful!
This was very helpful!! Thanks a lot for sharing with us :)
Wow this video is actually a HOW TO. Thank you for this video.
Glad it was helpful! Sorry for that horrible background noise. My laptop was protesting throughout my recording.
This is the video that I have been looking for ages!!! Thank you!!
I’m so glad it helps ❤️
Great Video ! Thank you so much for coming up with this wonderful content. wish you all success !!!
Thank you! You too!
Thank you so much for this video, Aliena
Thanks for the support
what if you want to design a ui/ux portfolio but have no professional experience should you still post personal projects first
I like your work also a google student and this is super helpful and love your growth.
Thanks so much!
Hey, this was very nice. Thank you! ❤
Glad you liked it!
Thank you, this video was amazing!
Thank you!
I took notes, this is valuable info thx so much!
So glad!
This was sooo helpful! Thank you for all the gems. I just have one feedback.. the background music is kind of distracting. Please reduce the volume in your future videos.
Thank you so much Aliena❤
Thank you too!
thank you very much, I loved your accent because I could understand it better (im brazilian).
祝Aliena早日拿到squarespace的sponsorship哈哈哈哈哈 你值得
谢谢！我已经给它们发了无数封邮件了哈哈哈完全不理我😂
Leave everything the learn more button is so creative and like un skipable
It just so good
So helpfull! Thank you SO MUCH! Keep doing great videos!
Thank you so much Aliena your video is such a life saver.
Thanks for letting me know! And sorry for the horrible background noise in this video. Will improve that in future videos 👍
your design is really good
Thank you!
I love ur channel and ur advices........u are my mentor 🙃
Thank you 🙏 maybe friend too? 😅 Just in case one my my advice screwed up 🤣
Ohk 😊 thank u
Soo much love from Nigeria ✌🏽
Thank you so much! Where can we find the continuation where you linked the case studies please
thank you for inspiration for me
You are so welcome!
that was so nice. thanks !
Thank you too!
Hello Aliena, Thanks for your good job. Please I'm new Ux Design learner. I'm working by myself and really need someone to discuss my practices with. Could you please assist me?
Thank you for those tips , can we see your portfolio 😁
elenacai.com
Am curious why you didn't want to put your LinkedIn page?
Thank you so much! It’s really helpful!☺️
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks hank for the great content Aliena ...(n___n)
How would you go about making a real world project and collaborating with other designers, or developers?
Webflow, Wix or WordPress is the same as SquareSpace ?
You are really good Aliena. Do you know anyone who will teach me while I buddy up with them?
I have been in packaging design and I would like to move to the UIxUX field. So I taught myself and I actually don't have an actual project. If I do UI redesign other Existing company for my portfolio, It will help me for get a job?
Can we have the link to your portfolio? Thanks!
After inputting my password on the password protected box and clicked on Save, I was taking to a page to make payment... but that a different from yours, please what should I do ?
Very well :D
Thank you.
You're welcome 😊
Is there a mockup site that is compatible with adobe XD? Currently using photoshop.
I don't think I'm knowledgeable in that area. But you shall definitely check out Behance and "Adobe Portfolio"
Can you link this portfolio in the description so we can see it live?
It's currently live at alienacai.squarespace.com with the password ilovedesign; There's no much detail in it though since I created this demo portfolio just for this video. My personal portfolio is at elenacai.com
@@AlienaCai Nice, thank you!
Hi!! greetings from Colombia :) I have 2 questions for you... I want to finish the Google certificate by May 31st. I'm already in course 2. I'm studying aprox 3 hours a day. Do you think is possible to accomplish that?
And also, would you say that half a month is enough for doing the 6th course and another half month to do the 7th? (studying 3 hours a day)
I love your content! Thank you in advance
Good question! I think if you are studying 3h a day you will be able to finish by May 31st 👍👍🔥 I want to point out that the timing is not fully on your control though, because there are around two rounds of user interviews for each project (1st project for course 1-5, 2nd project for course 6, and 3rd project for course 7). And if you want to take the most from the course, I suggest to seek opportunities for real life projects (collaborate with other designers/ software engineers/ work with actual clients). Or else, what you can do is to do three personal projects with a smaller interview scope to populate your first UX portfolio. This will be much more manageable in your case with the time constraint. And then you can use the three projects from the Google certificate to find a real life project, and then swap the real life project with one of the case study from Google certificate and find a full time role (Hope all these make sense! ) All the best!! ❤️
@Mariana Ramirez, I'm also on this, just started course 2. How are you finding it so far?
Im on my 4th week of coursera which week do they start teaching you how to make websites and designs using figma and adobe? and was shadowing a student an assignment from the coursera ux program?
You will learn about Figma starting from the third course. I know, it takes patience to go through the foundations to get to the tools. For my portfolio, shadowing a student was not part of the coursera course project. That was an internship program I did before more focusing on research. Hope this answers your question 👍
@@AlienaCai what did you use to create your website? are there websites that can be exported from figma?
Is it worth studying pg diploma in uiux? Which will cost a education loan, should I go for it?
I actually considered that and decided not. I think if you want more job guarantee you can go with a bootcamp (with you can pay after you get the job). It is cheaper than diploma and provide you more actual work experience to showcase in your portfolio.
Hey Aliena, this video is unavailable now.
I checked it on my end and it looks available. Can you double check?
👍
sorry...i thought you are using Figma
Please share link of your portfolio
My actual portfolio is at elenacai.com, this fictional one is at alienacai.squarespace.com (password is ilovedesign)
Sister u are quite same like me, as u took Pm course on coursera by google I took the same course😂 as u took ux design course se i took the same 🤣😆😂👌
😂good to find my learning sister! I saw these courses and since I’m paying a monthly fee for them anyways, I just started to take all the courses that interest me 😄😄
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Am I the only one feeling she is drunk🙄 Btw your content is good♥️
What?
lol
Take care of your skin.. Sun might burn through your glasses.
Hi, Aliena!! I'm binge watching your videos and I enrolled on Google UX certificate program. Your videos are helping a LOT. Do you have instagram??
Thank you so much for your support!! I have a private instagram account @aliena_cai and public twitter account with the same user name. 😄😄
This video was so good!! Thank you! I’m slowly pivoting into ux designing! I am currently a technical recruiter you definitely just eased my anxiety. I’m excited to get started and begin studying!
Thank you so much! You current work will make transferring into design super smooth 😄
@@AlienaCai yes! I am definitely excited!
Omg I'm a recruiter who is switching to UX design ! Hope all worked out for you!
Wow.....I am also a Recruiter. Now switching to UI UX designing.
Hello Aliena, I don’t know if you’ll even see this but in case you do, I want to say thank you very much. I have been feeling very scared and intimidated by creating a portfolio and you have just wiped all that worry away. Thank you for being a great teacher and for sharing your knowledge. Thank you, thank you.
Every informative!
Can you suggest us some UX projects, like every UX UI beginners should try to enhance their skill?
Thank you in advance.
Great suggestion! I think this is a good start: www.uxchallenge.co/
I was so happy until I realised that there is no free option to subscribe squarespace :(
Hey Aliena! Currently I teach Business English to mainly Russian IT guys, many of whom are pursuing UX/UI as a future career. Also, I'm planning to do the Google UX course myself next year! Like you, I plan to be totally self-taught. I love your approach and I'm looking forward to learning more from someone who has been through the journey! I'll definitely see you more next year! Thanks!
Hi, the Google course is a very good start and probably the best when it comes to the money/value ratio. I would 100% recommend it. The one small thing I would also recommend is not to stop at that course; find another course as well. The one problem with the Google course is that it teaches how to be a UX Designer at Google, focusing on their processes and approaches. That is not how 99% of companies work. So, definitely start with that course and then consider finding another course (many of them are free on UA-cam) or perhaps a course with a reputable certificate. Hope that help you :)
A millions THANKS for making me find building a Porfolio bit easy for me unlike before. I have spent day, week searching for how to build a porfolio for myself. You are a real Mentor!
Thank you so so much for letting me know that my content is valuable. I spent years struggling with portfolio building. Still need to improve myself. Will share my learning in this channel!
I'm actually 1.5 years into learning how to be a full stack developer on my own. It feels like chasing my own tail when trying to learn on my own but even watching your videos regarding UX design helps me structure my project goals. Currently working on my second web portfolio from scratch ( for practice of course ) and I am currently struggling with designing it just as much as coding it. So thank you for this awesome content Aliena!
Thank you! Keep going 🙌👍
what tool do you use for grabbing quality screen shots to use in your portfolio?
Good question. Usually I will export from Figma using *5 jpg for my design assets. For wireframes where I need to take a screenshot, I'm using mac so I just use the built in screenshot function. Hope this helps 😊
How to build the real life project when I have no UX job?
Freelancing can be an option
Thank you sooo much for this! I personally am so into minimalism and some kind of flat designs. So this one so far the most suitable reference for me to create my portfolio. Hey btw, I'm also pivoting to UI/UX design from a German teacher 😄I'm very open to, like, a collaborative project to build a portfolio. Pls kindly hit me up for that 😃
Thank you so so much for your support. I wish you all the best with your career ❤️
I just don't like the idea to have to pay for a place to share my portfolio. Have mine on wix and received some feedback like : it looks unprofessional to have your website without a proper domain. 😶
Yea I feel you :( Maybe you can try out Behance or Notion?
@@AlienaCai oh yeh I also have it on behance!
super 👌 especially shadows
I'm super happy I found such supportive video in this time of learning and transitioning from visual design. Subscribed and tuned in
Welcome aboard!
Great video, I was feeling so lost with my portfolio and this was really helpful, thank you so so so much!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Hello Aliena, some mockups dont have the thumbnail layer to really bring out the mockup, how do i approach this
Thanks for the video,
I would not have chosen to delete the templates already provided by squarespace, I find it easier and faster to put the front images, but why not.
Thanks for sharing! The template that I chose didn't suit my original design. But it definitely depends 👍
wow that was an amazing tutorial thanks waiting for the next one
You're very welcome!
Building the website was… amazing! You breezed through square space and it looked so clean.
This is quite helpful. Thank you. I'm building my portfolio from scratch using Webflow. It's such a pain. Hopefully I'm not wasting my time when I could be using a template. But I want to prove that I can design a website without a template
Glad it was helpful! It's a great skill to know Webflow as a designer. I've used it too and the learning curve was not easy at first. But the design of webflow resemble more of what front engineers actually need to work with. I think it's going to benefit you in the long run and keep it up!
Aaaaaand the portfolio link is no longer live :(
Love this video, is the first time i see a person explaining this topic that way! thank you so much!
I'm currently in the final stretch of finishing the Google UX Design course and am still finding things a bit nerve wracking. Thank you for making this video! I was incredibly nervous about making a portfolio.
Hi :) From my experience, creating a portfolio will never become 100% easy, maybe just easier. Even when I am building a portfolio, I am stressing, and sending that portfolio by clicking the 'send' button on the job application feels every time like the first time. So, that is definitely an experience that everyone has. One thing I can recommend (if you're interested in a recommendation) is to go through your portfolio with a mentor on ADPList. It's free and can help you prepare your portfolio and not be so nervous about 'Could I have made it better?' and all those thoughts that usually go through your head when a recruiter doesn't answer :) Hope that helps :)
Hi Aliena, thanks for the great content! I was wondering if there is any way that we can import our diagrams or customer journey map into squarespace in a format other than images? I want them to be very high quality..
Hi, I think using images is the best option, especially when it comes to speed optimization. Creating something more complex can potentially cause problems when opening websites from different devices or browsers. A small hack or tip: diagrams are good, but in 98% of the cases, no one will look into them in detail. Most of the time, the UX Lead will scan them and expect you to present them (if you, of course, get a chance to do so). So, even though I am not sure how to upload a diagram in another format, I would probably ask more in-depth questions like 'Why would you want to display the diagram in better quality in the first place?' and 'Will the benefits outweigh the potential time spent on solving that or the potential problems?' I just analyzed 312 UX Portfolios, and to be honest, everyone was using images.
Hope that helps :) even though I did not answer the question :))))
After 14 days this site will expire what to do?
Pay up
Awesome video actuallyy a portfolio video not like the ones that just tell you to use no code websites because theyre sponsors.
Hi i want to start my career as UX designer, but have no experience then what to add in portfolio?...no real time project as i am a beginner
Thankyou so much this is what i needed i was stuck on how to create and design my portfolio
you provided me exactly that this is so much helpful
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video! very helpful and one of the best on here for a beginner who just learnt the basics of UXD. all others tell you the importance of portfolio, case studies, do's and don'ts but leave you blank on how to basically go about with the steps on how to get started on creating one.
Haven't finished watching but this is so helpful
I'm glad it is!
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Yeah a new Aliena video! The portfolio is never done! Thanks for this video
My pleasure! (And my portfolio is also never done haha, always a work in progress)
Hello aliena, what If i have my own website can I upload my porfolio designs to my website?
Finally a video that ACTUALLY tells about how to prepare a portfolio........Thanks a lot
Hello, mam, your video is so helpful but I can't find how to use Squarespace as a guest could you please say how to do it.