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On the eve of the new year, you always want to change and change something. Therefore, we prepared an unusual portfolio for a student in the colors of the Russian Federation and called it quite boldly: Patriot! This portfolio template is perfect for students in grades 1, 2, 3, 4 and above. The composition included thirty sheets, which is quite enough at this stage of study.

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

Fairy tales - we begin to read and watch them from childhood. After they haunt us all our lives, and we want to turn our lives into a fairy tale. The new Disney film Maleficent has become a real fairy tale that many people love. 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 characters, 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 includes 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 in all the templates, you will get a small book, where everything will be about the life of your child.

When you send your child to a sports section, you dream that he will grow into a real professional and become a star of the sport he plays. But in order for your dreams to come true, you need to make every effort. First, you need to train your child. Secondly, praise him for his success and motivate him to go in for sports in every possible way. 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 view it, see photos of great athletes and see his achievements. With such a portfolio, your child has something to strive for and something to achieve.
Format: JPEG; PNG
Number of sheets: 24
Size: A4

Both boys and girls love cars. Because they're beautiful, o_they're quick to ride, and they're more and more influencing our daily lives. 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 see a sample of each sheet in our video, which we specially prepared for the presentation of a new portfolio.
Format: A4
Sheets: 18
Quality: 300dpi

If for boys the portfolio is usually with cars or with comic book characters, then for girls it’s very easy to design. It can be dolls with princesses, and just flowers, and even solid colors. But we did not do either one or the other. Not third. And they made a brand 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 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 suits you or not.

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In UX design, portfolios matter more than college degrees. Employers and recruiters will use your portfolio to determine your experience, aesthetics, and more importantly, your ability to solve real-world business problems.

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

1. Create a website

This is an obvious step in building a good online portfolio. Your website is not just a description of your job - it's your job. Do your best to make it perfect.

1.1 Connect web analytics

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

1.2 Make your navigation as clear as possible

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

It's tempting to point out that you're good at everything for better competitiveness, but you should avoid that thought. Instead, focus on your core skills and use your experience to communicate why they matter.

3. Think about how to structure your projects there.

Regardless of your approach and the aesthetics of your site, 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 Rank the most relevant projects first (instead of last)

Let your most impressive projects show up first, instead of chronologically. This is especially important if you have little experience and want 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 include the type of projects you want to work on more in your portfolio.

3.2 Create promising previews

The initial stages of candidate selection can be ruthless. A recruiter or employer must review dozens (if not hundreds) of portfolios to select a few. Don't be surprised that they often make decisions in less than a minute. Troy Park and Patrick Neaman state that people spend approximately 10-15 seconds looking at a UX portfolio. Try to succinctly communicate the details of the project using text and check if the main information is available on your site using the 60 second test.

Alan Shen's portfolio has a good preview for each project.

3.3 Get over the NDA (non-disclosure agreement)

For many designers, the NDA is the biggest threat to their portfolio. However, an NDA should not be a reason to remove a project from the portfolio. Here are a few ways to fix the NDA issue:

• Ask permission. If you have a good relationship with the client, you may be allowed to publish the project, especially if you remove all the sensitive details.
• Depersonalize the work. Don't include specific information and use blur to hide elements that are suggestive to the client. A potential employer will be more interested in seeing the big picture (what you are capable of) than specific details of another company.
• Recreation. If you can't show the real project, rebuild it to show what you've done. Just remember to indicate that this is a re-created work.

3.4 Just don't say you don't have portfolio projects

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 every possible way. For example, you can participate in the Daily UI Challenge and add some of the best to your portfolio. DailyUI is especially good for beginners because it not only helps you 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 over quantity

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

Michael Everson's entire portfolio is built around one project - SoundCloud for iOS. He details all the development steps and backs them up with great 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 description format may vary by project, in general, I recommend that each project be divided into two phases: the review and the UX process. First comes the review. The visitor should be able to immediately understand what this 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- With whom did you work 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 piece 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 have to take very seriously explaining the whole process as you will be judged on it.

An example of a UX process. Image: Zurb.

You must understand that your work can only be judged 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 as simple as a few sentences that talk about the problem (of the business) you were solving.
• User audience research- Describe your users and their needs, motivations and problem areas. This part may include the tools with which you collected this information (eg characters and like cards). You can also mention competitor analysis (consider the strengths and weaknesses of competitors in addressing 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 flowcharts, mock-ups, and working prototypes. Employers need to know that you can do this and can look at the project from a developer's point of view. If possible, add an interactive prototype (such as InVision) to give visitors a chance 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 story 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.
• Demonstrate your problem solving skills. When describing the different parts of your work in your portfolio, make sure you are clear about the problem you had and how you solved it.
• Demonstrate your ability to apply the right tools in the process of solving a problem.
• Show your ability to express yourself concisely with words and pictures. Explain the process step by step and give the images context.
• Try to clearly show what you have learned in the process of working on the project.

Simon Pen presents each piece of design as a story in its own right, complete with superb images. Amazon Prime Music development history 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 talk about them: highlight why the project was successful (target metrics went up by X%) and strengthen your role in achieving it.

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

4.3 Don't focus on the visual

Don't pretend that you are a visual designer (if you are not). Remember that the purpose of a portfolio is not to showcase your amazing design skills. Having competent visual design skills would definitely be a plus, but don't confuse them with the primary focus of your position - "solving business problems by designing user experiences."

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

4.4 Don't just focus 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, they are more interested in the process of creating these products. A good portfolio is always complemented by the research behind the final result.

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

4.5 Do not overestimate your contribution

Do not lie. It's easy to take all the credit for a project that a whole team worked on. Remember, honesty is the best strategy: if you don't know how to do something or you have no experience in it - don't say it in your portfolio! Be clear and honest about your role and those who have worked with you. Add tags

Good evening everyone! How is the weekend? So, today I will fulfill my promise that I made to my reader. Or rather, I will teach parents whose children go to school / kindergarten how to make a portfolio for school. As it turns out, this is very important right now. Although, I think this is very stupid and pointless. When I was studying, this was not the case. Well, okay, not for me to judge. My job is to help out parents, because most of them are faced with Photoshop for the first time!

I hope you? If yes, then we continue.

Each institution has different requirements for a portfolio, but I will tell you in the basics how to do it. And for those who are too 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 do not have problems later when printing.

STEP 2 Now we need to find some pretty background. It is advisable to choose it depending on whether you have a boy or a girl. Imagine that I have a daughter :)

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

Well, paste it in as a background in Photoshop.

Step 3. Now we want to make a frame. It will obviously be prettier that way. Since I allegedly have a daughter, I decided to make a frame from flowers. I found two types of flowers (without a background, so as not to cut it out myself). I added them to our already finished background and made them in such a size that they could be used as a frame. Well, when you reduce, then in order to maintain proportions, I advise you to hold down Shift.

Well, in order not to insert and resize every time, just make copies of these flowers (or whatever you have there). Right click on layers.

And after a few minutes of monotonous work, I got something like this:

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

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

You can also add different figures that will be in the theme.

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

A career in design can be started in different ways. Starting from working as an intern in a design studio, ending with the creation of his own studio. One of the easiest ways to start a career is to find jobs as a freelancer. For all its shortcomings, freelancing seems to many a very attractive option. But in order to receive orders, you must definitely show your work to a potential client. Few people will agree to give an order to a designer who has a completely empty portfolio. It turns out 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 works 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 show yourself as much as possible, your knowledge, and modest (so far) skills. Yes, you may not be able to surprise clients with sophisticated techniques and super-creative tricks, 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 through design blogs and raise the rating on freelance exchanges.

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

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

1. Design for yourself

The most obvious way to get a portfolio case is to design for yourself or your firm. It can 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 work hard, this project will become not only a portfolio case, 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 in working with clients (otherwise you would not be reading this text). Most likely, something will go wrong and you risk spoiling the relationship. Think 10 times before trying this option.

3. Design for a fictitious client

So began, in particular, Artemy Lebedev. You can independently come up with a client for yourself with its tasks and limitations, and then solve these design tasks. It is important to come up with a client as close to reality as possible. Don't design for a brain transplant firm. Better design for a fictitious PR agency. The simpler the better.

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

4. Design for a famous brand or website

5. Contests

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

Some contests 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 you succeed, you will not only get the job done, but also earn some money.

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

6. Free work (“for portfolio”)

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

7. Project of 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 is 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 way both from the point of view of practice and from the point of view of public benefit. By creating a thematic collection, a web service, a design framework, a 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, Artyom Nosenko's Enotus note-taking service (Artyom, of course, is not a beginner, but the example is excellent):

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 with the methods and tools of a designer. This will develop you as a real designer and show the range of tasks that interest you.

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

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How to make a portfolio of a primary school student.

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Create a title page. Indicate in it the last name, first name, age of the student. Paste the photo. On the second sheet, the material of the school's activities is drawn up. Write down the name of the educational institution in which grade the child is studying. You can describe the biography of the institution or write about your favorite teachers.

The third page should have an autobiography. The student is given the opportunity to present independent work skills. In this section, analytical skills, the ability to correctly express one's thoughts, and the 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 work section. If the student participated in Olympiads in subjects, then this should also be noted. You can put all letters of thanks and diplomas in the piggy bank of documents.

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

Ask the class teacher to write a good review about the child. This will perfectly complement the information about his personality in the "Reviews and Recommendations". It assumes the presence of feedback from the organizers of various school events about the efforts of its participant. Attached is a summary sheet of progress.

Portfolio of an elementary school student.

student portfolio- a collection of data on the achievements and successes of the student, the bright moments of life in the first years of schooling. It will store informationabout the results of the child's work in various areas, his interests and hobbies.How to make a portfolio for an elementary school student, what sections will be there and how to place information on the pages of sections?
Not all parents understand what the portfolio of a newly-born primary school student should consist of, how to start working on it and what is needed for this. Asking someone to do it for you is impossible, because no one can describe the virtues of an unfamiliar child. Let's take everything in order.

In fact, there is nothing complicated here. It is necessary to scan letters, 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, is selected ready sample whichever the child likes best. Now you need to place the prepared data on the pages of the electronic portfolio, it is easy to figure out in the graphic editor where the image should be and where the text should be. Immediately make a reservation that many parents prefer to placeinformation on student portfolio templateswithout the use of modern technologies - just cutting, pasting, signing the information on the sheet.

It will be more convenient if you first download and upload to the editor portfolio templatesfor elementary grades. You can copy text elements from any editor. It is better to take several offers; it is not recommended to transfer large volumes. If you want to add handwritten text, take a photo of it. With a graphic editor, you can select a 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 the development primary school student's own portfolio, his self-esteem rises, there is motivation to achieve new goals, so that the results are placed in the collection,the student will strive for greater development in creativity, science and other areas. It is necessary to explain to the student that a portfolio is not a set of letters, the main thing is to work on yourself and participate in events, this deserves more praise than a stack of diplomas earned to the detriment of your 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 the desire to comprehend new horizons. If a child sets a goal, he will definitely achieve it, he will be able to fulfill himself.

Elementary School Student Portfolio- this is not only a beautifully designed set of information about the personality and interests of the student, but also a very useful document for people who are directly involved in shaping the personality of the child - 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 Elementary School Student Portfolio Templates, with which you can draw up all the necessary sections and conveniently enter all the information about the child into them.

Download Primary School Student Portfolio Templates. In the file you will find page templates , with which you can arrange sections of your child's portfolio with textual 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 sporting events, relationships with friends and schoolmates. INPortfolio of an elementary school girlyou can turn on the needlework section, which will contain information about the schoolgirl's home hobbies and photos of her work (knitting, embroidery, beading, paper crafts, doll clothes and so on).