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On the eve of the new year, you always want to change and change something. That's why we prepared an unusual portfolio for the student in the colors of the Russian Federation and called it quite boldly: Patriot! This portfolio template is perfect for students of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and higher grades. The composition includes thirty sheets, which is quite enough at this stage of study.

When children go to school, their most vivid memories of this time are naturally associated with the summer holidays. After all, in the summer you can take a break from school, from lessons and have fun with friends. All students are waiting for summer and want it to come as soon as possible. But after the summer holidays, you will have to return to school and sit at your desks. But when students graduate from school, they begin to miss it. To make being bored more pleasant. We offer a new portfolio for a girl to go to school for all 9 or 11 years of study, called – memories of summer.

Fairy tales - we start reading and watching them from childhood. Afterwards they haunt us all our lives, and we want to turn our life into a fairy tale. Disney's new film Maleficent has become a real fairy tale that is loved by many. And it was based on this fairy tale that we made a new student portfolio for boys and girls.

It’s good when a child has his own heroes, even from a cartoon. He looks up to them, imitates them and wants to be like them. If your child loves the cartoon about the Winx fairies, then this portfolio is for him. New, bright and unique - Winx portfolio for elementary school girls. The portfolio included 25 pages. Each of them has its own style and design. All pages are different in coloring and decorated with new Winx characters. When you fill out all the templates, you will get a small book that will contain everything about your child’s life.

When you send your child to a sports section, you dream that he will grow into a real professional and become a star in the sport he plays. But to make your dreams come true, you need to make every effort. First, you need to train your child. Secondly, praise him for his successes and motivate him in every possible way to play sports. And thirdly, you need to help him see the progress he is making. A new beautiful student portfolio called hockey and basketball will help you with this. Such a portfolio will always be with your child, and he will be able to look through it, look at photographs of great athletes and see his achievements. With such a portfolio, your child has something to strive for and achieve.
Format: JPEG; PNG
Number of sheets: 24
Size: A4

Both boys and girls love cars. Because they are beautiful, they can be driven fast, and they influence our daily lives more and more. The most beautiful and reliable cars are made in Japan. That is why our new student portfolio is made using Japanese machines. A beautiful portfolio for a boy and a girl consists of 18 pages. You can watch a sample of each sheet in our video, which we specially prepared for the presentation of the new portfolio.
Format: A4
Sheets: 18
Quality: 300 dpi

If for boys the portfolio usually contains cars or comic book characters, then for girls it is very simple to design. These can be dolls with princesses, or just flowers, or even plain options. But we did not do either one or the other. Not others. And they made a completely new portfolio for an elementary school student in pink with roses. Look at a sample portfolio and show it to your girl. Perhaps she will like it, and she will want to get herself just such an option.
There are a total of 28 different pages in the portfolio. And among them there are both title pages and for filling. Watch the video below to better understand whether it is right for you or not.

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In UX design, portfolios mean more than higher education. Employers and hiring managers will use your portfolio to determine your experience, aesthetics and, more importantly, your ability to solve business problems in the real world.

Creating your first portfolio can seem like an incredibly daunting task. I've put together a comprehensive guide to help aspiring UX designers create a portfolio that showcases their unique stories.

1. Create a website

This is an obvious step when creating a good online portfolio. Your website is not a simple description of your work - it is your work. Do your best to make it perfect.

1.1 Connect web analytics

Add Google Analytics to your website to collect visitor statistics. This will help you build a profile of your visitors: who recently visited your site (location), for how long and what projects they viewed of yours. With this data, you can optimize the performance of your website to the maximum.

1.2 Make your navigation as clear as possible

Don't experiment and do things smart. Make sure that users know exactly how to find out more about you: about you page, portfolio, contacts, etc.

It's tempting to point out that you're good at everything to be more competitive, but you should avoid this idea. Instead, focus on your core skills and use your experience to convey why they are so important.

3. Think about how to structure your projects

Despite your approach and the aesthetics of your website, most employers want to know how you solve problems. Spend some time thinking about how you will present your projects to maximize their value.

3.1 Place most suitable projects first (instead of last)

Let your most impressive projects be displayed first, rather than in chronological order. This is especially important if you have little experience and are looking to get your first job in UX. Keep in mind that your portfolio should not only show your past work, but also indicate the direction of development. Make sure you only add to your portfolio the type of projects you want to work on more.

3.2 Create promising previews

The initial stages of candidate selection can be ruthless. A recruiting manager or employer must review dozens (if not hundreds) of portfolios to select a few. Don't be surprised that they often make a decision in less than a minute. Troy Park and Patrick Ne'eman claim that people spend approximately 10-15 seconds looking at a UX portfolio. Try to convey project details concisely using text and check whether basic information is accessible on your site using the 60-second test.

Alan Shen's portfolio has good previews for each project.

3.3 Overcome the NDA (non-disclosure agreement)

For many designers, NDAs are the biggest threat to their portfolio. However, an NDA should not be a reason to exclude a project from your portfolio. Here are some ways to solve the NDA problem:

Ask permission. If you have a good relationship with the client, you may be allowed to publish the project, especially if you leave out all the sensitive details.
Depersonalize the work. Leave out certain information and use blur to hide elements that are suggestive of the client. A potential employer will be more interested in seeing the big picture (what you can do) rather than the specific details of another company.
Re-creation. If you can't show the actual project, recreate it to show what you did. Just remember to indicate that this is a recreated work.

3.4 Just don’t say that you don’t have projects for your portfolio

All recent graduates have the same problem - they can't get work experience without a portfolio, and they can't get a portfolio without work experience. I recommend showing your potential in any way possible. For example, you can participate in the Daily UI Challenge and add some of the best ones to your portfolio. DailyUI is especially good for beginners because it not only helps develop your skills, but also makes you more visible in the design community. Additionally, I recommend adding academic work and concept projects to your portfolio.

3.5 Focus on quality instead of quantity

Smaller is better for your portfolio. Select 2 or 3 projects and describe them in detail. Eliminate projects that are too similar to each other; one story will be enough. It is quite normal to have a portfolio of just one project, as long as it is a good project.

Michael Everson's entire portfolio is built around one project - SoundCloud for iOS. He describes all stages of development in detail and backs them up with excellent previews, so he makes it clear how it works.

4. Describe in detail

While in other industries it will be enough to show only the final product or describe the results, in UX everything is different. More than just seeing the finished product, employers/customers want to know how you solved the problem. It is very important to show what process your work went through and that it did not just appear as if by magic. Although the format of the description may vary depending on the project, in general, I recommend dividing each project into two stages: the overview and the UX process. First comes the review. The visitor should be able to immediately understand what the project is about and its goals. Here are the topics you can add:

Project objectives- Why was the project started?
Target- What results do you need to get?
Duration- How much time was spent?
Team- Who did you work with on the project? Add names and links to their LinkedIn profiles.
Your role- What contribution did you make to the project?
Result- Images/videos or links to download the application, view the prototype, source codes.

Each work in Yitong Zhang's portfolio begins with a brief overview.

The UX Process stage is perhaps the most important part of your portfolio. As a UX designer, you need to take explaining the entire process very seriously because you will be judged on it.

Example of a UX process. Image: Zurb.

You must understand that your work can only be assessed in context. Describe the problem and its solution, show the process you went through to get the final product.

Design problem/challenge- It could be something simple, for example, a few sentences that talk about the (business) problem you were solving.
User audience research- Describe your users and their needs, motivations and pain points. This part may include the tools you used to collect this information (for example, characters and sympathy cards). You can also mention competitor analysis (consider the strengths and weaknesses of competitors in solving user needs).
Solution- In this part, answer the following questions: How did you solve the problem? Why did you choose this decision and what influenced your choice?
Design- Be sure to describe how you went from ideas to a specific solution. Show block diagrams, mockups and working prototypes (yes, these are all different things - approx. per.). Employers need to know that you can do it and can look at the project from a developer's point of view. If possible, add an interactive prototype (such as InVision) to allow visitors to play with it.
Testing- How do you define success/failure? How did you test your solution? What questions did you ask?

4.1 Create a strong story

Your projects are a story about you and your projects, a narrative about your journey, your successes and problems, your obstacles along the way.

Prioritize different information about your project and give it to readers in the right place to make the story more interesting.
Showcase your problem solving skills. When describing different parts of your work in your portfolio, make sure you clearly communicate the problem you had and how you solved it.
Demonstrate your ability to apply the appropriate tools to solve a problem.
Show your ability to express yourself concisely using words and images. Explain the process step by step and give the images context.
Try to clearly show what you learned while working on the project.

Simon Pen tells each part of the design as a story in itself, complete with superb imagery. The development story of Amazon Prime Music from Simon's portfolio.

4.2 Describe the impact of your work

Show the value you bring to the company that hired you. If possible, describe how your design led the company to success. If there are positive results, be sure to share them: highlight why the project was successful (target metrics increased by X%) and reinforce your role in achieving it.

Another example from Simon's portfolio. Outcome of the ILC NSW ‘AT Magic’ project

4.3 Don't focus on visual representation

Don't pretend that you are a visual designer (if you are not). Remember that the purpose of a portfolio is not to show off your amazing design skills. Competent visual design skills are definitely a plus, but don't confuse them with your role's core mission of "solving business problems by designing user experiences."

Slava Kim's portfolio focuses too much on images and does not provide basic information about the UX process.

4.4 Don't focus only on the end goal

Quite often, UX designers in their portfolios focus on the final product, rather than the “journey” of the project. However, hiring managers are less interested in the final product and more interested in the process of creating those products. A good portfolio is always complemented by the research behind the final result.

Michael Szczepanski presents each piece as a moving story that highlights his insight.

4.5 Don’t overestimate your contribution

Do not lie. It's easy to take all the credit for a project that an entire team worked on. Remember, honesty is the best strategy: if you don't know how to do something or don't have experience in it, don't talk about it in your portfolio! Be clear and honest about your role and those who worked with you. Add tags

Good evening everyone! How's the weekend? So today I will fulfill my promise to my reader. Or, more precisely, I will teach parents whose children are going to school/kindergarten how to make a portfolio for school. As it turns out, this is very relevant now. Although, I think this is very stupid and pointless. When I was studying, this was not the case. Well, oh well, it’s not for me to judge. My job is to help out parents, because most of them encounter Photoshop for the first time!

I hope you do? If yes, then we continue.

Each institution has different requirements for a portfolio, but I will tell you the basics of how to create one. And for those who are lazy, below you can simply download my version.

Step 1. Well, first we need to create the first page of our portfolio. Preferably with the same parameters that I indicated, so that you don’t have problems when printing later.

Step 2. Now we need to find some beautiful background. It is advisable to choose it depending on whether you have a boy or a girl. Let's imagine that I have a daughter :)

So we enter into Google or Yandex: “Background for Photoshop.” Well, you can also add the desired color.

Well, we paste it in as a background in Photoshop.

Step 3. Now we would like to make a frame. It will obviously be more beautiful. Since I supposedly have a daughter, I decided to make a frame out of flowers. I found two types of flowers (without a background, so as not to cut them out myself). I added them to our ready-made background and sized them so that they could be used as a frame. Well, when you reduce it, in order to maintain the proportions, I advise you to hold down Shift.

Well, in order not to insert and change the size every time, we simply make copies of these flowers (or whatever you have there). Right-click on layers.

And after a few minutes of monotonous work, I came up with something like this:

Step 4. Let's move on to the inscriptions. Where would we be without them? To do this, we need to download some kind of cool, childish font. I don’t use these, so I found this one on the Internet. Well, we put the inscriptions in some bright font. I also added shadows and strokes.

Well, now you can make other pages using a similar principle. portfolio for school or kindergarten.

You can also add different figures that will fit into the theme.

One of the most important questions for a beginning designer is how to fill out your portfolio? Where to get your first clients? How to get your first projects?

There are different ways to start a career in design. Starting from working as an intern in a design studio to creating your own studio. One of the easiest ways to start a career is to seek assignments as a freelancer. For all its shortcomings, freelancing seems like a very attractive option to many. But in order to receive orders, you must show your work to a potential client. Few people would agree to give an order to a designer whose portfolio is completely empty. It turns out to be a vicious circle: no orders → no portfolio, no portfolio → no orders.

First you need to realize that the first projects in the portfolio (cases) are a very, very important step. The quality of the first work determines which clients will come to you, and, in fact, the entire further path of the designer. Therefore, in the first cases it is important to demonstrate yourself, your knowledge, and modest (for now) skills as much as possible. Yes, you may not be able to wow clients with sophisticated technology and super-creative techniques, but you can demonstrate your approach and thinking. If you have good projects in your initial portfolio, this will give you a serious boost, because such work tends to spread across design blogs and raise your ranking on freelance exchanges.

And, of course, you can’t fill your portfolio with mediocre work. What your first jobs will be like, so will your subsequent clients.

So, let's move on to ways to fill out a portfolio.

1. Design for yourself

The most obvious way to get a portfolio case is to design it for yourself or your company. This could be a website, corporate identity or something like that. The difficulty here is that you will have to come up with restrictions yourself, because design without restrictions is not design, but pure creativity. But if you do a good job, this project will become not only a case in your portfolio, but also your business tool.

2. Design for friends or acquaintances

You can offer relatives, friends or good acquaintances a job for a symbolic reward. But be very careful with this option. You have little experience working with clients (otherwise, you would not be reading this text). Most likely, something will go wrong and you risk ruining the relationship. Think 10 times before trying this option.

3. Design for a fictitious client

This is how Artemy Lebedev, in particular, started. You can independently come up with a client with its tasks and limitations, and then solve these design problems. Here it is important to invent a client as close to reality as possible. Don't design for a brain transplant company. Better yet, design for a fictional PR agency. The simpler the better.

If you're starting a career in web design or mobile app design, you can come up with a useful service that you think is in demand, and then create a design for it. Just try not to make it just another mobile weather app ;)

4. Design for a famous brand or website

5. Competitions

There are many design competitions. Personally, I am skeptical of them, because most often they offer to work for free, for the chance of a remuneration that does not exceed the average cost of such a contract on the market. But for starters it will do.

Some competitions can be found on social networks and blogs, but the bulk are on specialized sites like 99designs and GoDesigner, as well as on freelance exchanges. The good thing about this method is that you don’t need to invent a task, it already exists. And if successful, you will not only get the job done, but also earn some money.

By the way, there are also very good competitions, for example, VKontakte competitions for the development of mobile applications with a prize fund of millions of rubles. Even though they are already completed, there is nothing stopping you from making a solution and placing it in your portfolio.

6. Free work (“for a portfolio”)

I categorically do not advise looking for a customer who will agree for you to work for him for free. Firstly, any work must be paid. Even a beginner's work costs money. Secondly, the chance of finding a normal client in this way tends to zero.

7. Project by a famous studio or designer

You can take a problem that your colleagues have already solved. Look at the work of famous designers and studios, choose what you think was done poorly and make it better. In addition to experience and a good case, you can also count on some resonance in the design environment (wow, the student did better than Studio X!).

8. Own project

A very useful method both from the point of view of practice and from the point of view of social benefit. By creating a thematic collection, web service, design framework, set of free icons, or PSD templates, you not only fill your portfolio, but also help other people. In addition, if your project turns out to be good, over time it can become a source of income.

For example, the service for taking notes Enotus Artyom Nosenko (Artyom, of course, is not a beginner, but an excellent example):

9. Solving a real problem

In my opinion, the best way to show the world and potential clients what you are capable of is to find a real problem in the real world and solve it using designer methods and tools. This will develop you as a real designer and show you the range of tasks that are interesting to you.

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Student's portfolio- a collection of data about the student’s achievements and successes, bright moments of life in the first years of school. It will store information about the child’s work results, his interests and favorite activities.

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How to create a portfolio for a primary school student.

Instructions

Create a title page. Indicate in it the surname, first name, and age of the student. Paste the photo. The second sheet contains the material for school activities. Write down the name of the educational institution and what grade the child is in. You can describe the biography of the institution or write about your favorite teachers.

The third page should contain an autobiography.. The student is given the opportunity to demonstrate independent work skills. In this section, analytical skills, the ability to correctly express one’s thoughts, and assessment of events are important.

All gratitude in the form of certificates for success in academic disciplines must be reflected in the portfolio in the creative works section. If the student participated in subject olympiads, then this should also be noted. You can put all letters of gratitude and diplomas in the document box.

Reflect the student's hobbies in his free time. Perhaps he takes ballroom dancing classes or plays music. Attach all creative works (appliqués, embroideries) to document files. Write what kind of music and movies the student likes. If he writes poems or prose, then post them too. It is necessary to prepare questionnaires that classmates will fill out. They can write reviews about a friend and comrade.

Ask the class teacher to write a good review of the child. This will perfectly complement the information about his personality in “Reviews and Recommendations.” This assumes that there will be feedback from the organizers of various school events about the efforts of the participant. Attached is a summary of your progress.

Elementary school student portfolio.

Student's portfolio- a collection of data about the student’s achievements and successes, bright moments of life in the first years of school. It will store informationabout the child’s performance in different areas, his interests and favorite activities.How to make a portfolio for an elementary school student, what sections will there be and how to place information on the section pages?
Not all parents understand what the portfolio of a newly minted primary school student should consist of, how to start working on it and what is needed for this. It is impossible to ask someone to do it for you, because no one can describe the merits of an unfamiliar child. Let's look at everything in order.

There's really nothing complicated here. It is necessary to scan certificates, drawings, various works of an elementary school student, select the most significant photos in electronic format, type a couple of sentences to describe each section and place all the information on the portfolio template page. Then all the information is loaded into specialized graphic editor, ready-made is selected sample which one the child likes best. Now you need to place the prepared data on the pages of the electronic portfolio; in the graphic editor it is easy to figure out where the image should be and where the text should be. Let’s make a reservation right away that many parents prefer to placeinformation on student portfolio templateswithout the use of modern technologies - simply cutting, pasting, signing information on a sheet.

It will be more convenient if you first download and load it into the editor portfolio templatesfor primary classes. You can copy text elements from any editor. It is better to take several offers; transferring large volumes is not recommended. If you want to add handwritten text, take a photo of it. Using a graphic editor, you can select the part of the photo where the ratings are located,.
The work done must be saved in order to be able to replenish and expand the portfolio for several months in a row.

When a student participates in development primary school student's own portfolio, his self-esteem increases, he becomes motivated to achieve new goals so that the results can be included in the collection,the student will strive for greater development in creativity, science and other fields. It is necessary to explain to the student that a portfolio is not a set of diplomas, the main thing is to work on oneself and participate in events, this deserves more praise than a stack of diplomas earned to the detriment of one’s own interests and desires.

After many tests and studies by psychologists, it was recognized that the main indicator of the development of a creative person is not knowledge, but the presence of motivation and desire to comprehend new horizons. If a child sets a goal, he will definitely achieve it and will be able to self-actualize.

Elementary school student portfoliois not only a beautifully designed collection of information about the student’s personality and interests, but also a very useful document for people directly involved in the formation of a child’s personality - for teachers, psychologists, school administration, the head of a circle or sports section. Gradually, the portfolio of a primary school student is filled with important information and the potential and dynamics of the student’s development begin to be seen.
Below you candownload Primary School Student Portfolio Templates, with the help of which you can draw up all the necessary sections and conveniently enter all the information about the child into them.

Download Elementary School Student Portfolio Templates. In the file you will find page templates , with which you can design sections of your child’s portfolio with text information and photos. It will be difficult for a primary school student to design a portfolio on his own, so at the initial stage he can help his parents in compiling sections and gradually learn to work with a graphic editor on a computer.

Making out elementary school boy student portfolio, focus on his achievements in sports activities, relationships with friends and schoolmates. INelementary school girl student portfolioYou can include a handicrafts section, where information about the schoolgirl’s home hobbies and photographs of her work will be posted (knitting, embroidery, beading, paper crafts, clothes for dolls and so on).