What Sets You Apart?
Dear UI/UX & Product Designers,
There are plenty of reasons why people hire, having plenty of dummy projects with lots of lorem ipsum texts isn’t one of them. Your portfolio projects need to grow past random designs with dummy texts.
Copywriting is also an important aspect of product design. Your copy needs to be able to complement the design and lorem ipsum doesn’t do that.
Instead of having loads of incomplete random projects with dummy content, devote time to working on specific projects from start to finish. If for instance, you’re working on a website, don’t just design a homepage with dummy content and create mockups…
Design all the necessary pages for that website without using dummy content in any of the pages. From the homepage to the about, blog, contact, and error pages. Lorem ipsum makes it obvious that a particular project is a dummy example. Research and create the actual content for your project.
Having a portfolio with complete sets of projects will set you apart from other designers and shoot your chances of being hired up the roof. Make the projects on your portfolio so professional that visitors won’t be able to tell a difference between a client’s project and a dummy.
