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I keep getting told to remove my rough work from my portfolio.
I shared my design portfolio for feedback a while back. Many reviewers said to only include polished projects, but I believe my early sketches help explain my ideas. Do you think process work has a place in a portfolio?
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finleybutler7mo ago
I kept a separate 'process' page that worked for me.
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victor_robinson367mo ago
A friend's portfolio only showed finished work, so clients assumed he didn't do any sketching.
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drewperez7mo ago
I used to cram every sketch and wireframe into my main portfolio pages until a creative director told me it looked messy. Seeing @finleybutler mention a separate process page was the fix I needed. Now my main portfolio is just the clean final work, but I have a single link at the top to a separate case study file with all the rough stuff. It keeps the first look professional but still shows how I think. That balance got me way more callbacks than my old cluttered approach.
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