{"id":1359,"date":"2024-03-20T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:43:52","slug":"a-design-portfolio-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/a-design-portfolio-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"A design portfolio mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matejlatin.com\/blog\/90-percent-of-designers-are-unhirable\/\">Matej Latin has rejected<\/a> the vast majority of portfolios he&#8217;s seen in his career for one reason, a &#8220;linear design process&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>By \u201clinear design process\u201d I mean cookie-cutter case studies that always read the same. The designer learned about a problem, conducted user interviews, created user personas, proceeded to sketches, then mockups and wireframes, made everything beautiful through visual design, created a prototype, and tested it with five users. Everything was perfect so they also created a design system which is not a design system but a style guide. But they call it a \u201cdesign system\u201d because it\u2019s trendy and a keyword for the recruiters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f. I take the point: it feels fake and easy to see through. A real project is never this clean. The process is more like <a href=\"https:\/\/thedesignsquiggle.com\/about\">a squiggle<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matej Latin has rejected the vast majority of portfolios he&#8217;s seen in his career for one reason, a &#8220;linear design process&#8221;: By \u201clinear design process\u201d I mean cookie-cutter case studies that always read the same. The designer learned about a problem, conducted user interviews, created user personas, proceeded to sketches, then mockups and wireframes, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-design"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/squiggle-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}