Creating Digital Portfolios

Introduction

How is having a digital portfolio important for career growth and opportunities?

Digital portfolios are digital collections of projects collected over a period of time. They serve as electronic evidence of growth, skills, and accomplishments. Digital portfolios may include a variety of artifacts, such as documents, images, projects, multimedia presentations, sketches, animations, webpage designs, etc.

While résumés offer a list of skills and accomplishments, digital portfolios provide evidence. In addition, portfolios demonstrate personal and professional growth. It is especially important for careers such as digital design.

Tips for Creating Effective Digital Portfolios

Digital Portfolio Applications

Behance is a free online portfolio website that is very popular among digital designers as well as potential employers looking for talented designers. This tool offers advanced file editing tools to showcase various projects, as well as collaboration and interaction options.

Dribbble allows sharing small screenshots of design process, drafts, and prototypes, in addition to sharing completed projects. It’s a great tool for designers to share their designs and obtain feedback on work in progress.

Adobe Portfolio is included in paid Adobe Creative Cloud plans, frequently used by digital designers, thus making it easy to upload and showcase projects.

Other Digital Portfolio Tools

Carbonmade

Carbonmade offers very unique themes and easy-to-use interface. It allows users to upload video and audio files, in addition to images and other files.

Cargo Collective

Cargo Collective allows users to create personal websites with multiple pages and unique URLs. There are many portfolio design templates to select from, thus making it easy to create a portfolio quickly and effectively.

Coroflot

In addition to digital portfolio tools, Coroflot offers a job board that is well designed and widely used by designers and potential employers.

Crevado

Crevado supports a variety of file formats and allows users to access portfolios from various electronic devices, including mobile devices. It also supports online payment platforms, thus making it easy for designers to sell their work. It even offers Google Analytics Reporting.

Portfoliobox

Portfoliobox is a simple tool but allows designers to create a truly unique portfolio due to a variety of styles and a free domain name. It also allows users to create and manage galleries. This tool supports a variety of languages.

Portfoliopen

Portfoliopen does not require any coding skills to create a professional digital portfolio. It allows easy upload of images and files and offers generous storage space. In addition, it allows designers to showcase their best work.

Jobrary

Jobrary is both an online resume and digital portfolio tool. It allows users to create a unique portfolio URL and share the account on various networking sites.

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