How to
Build a Portfolio
Nelson Abalos Jr
@thepixelgeek
nelson@webflow.com
Hi.
Story time
Team Mystic FTW
Real Story time
Over 20 years of tinkering
"...what if X could be Y"
My current "what if"
After you've learned the basics,
build your personal brand/portfolio
- Gather your content
- Find inspiration
- Build it
- Hate it
- Rebuild it
- Hate it
- Rebuild it
- Just launch it already.
Gather your content
- Solutions to those "what ifs" and past work
- Everything you've learn and tackled to finish those projects
- List of skills
- Past experience
- Your Story
Finding inspiration
- Commercials
- Movie and Video Game UI
- Package design
- Other Websites
Building your portfolio
- Tell your story first
- Be unique, not a robot
- Make your site a filter for you
Summary
- Always ask "what if"
- Find inspiration from everywhere
- Build it fast in Webflow ;)
Make the Web Beautiful
nelson@webflow.com
twitter.com/thepixelgeek
thank you. <3
how to build a portfolio
By Nelson Abalos Jr
how to build a portfolio
Creating happiness on that bridge between Web Designers and Web Developers. The old waterfall workflow to create a website from scratch has yet to evolve. The amount of pain points that a creative team must tackle has increased significantly due to the rise of mobile devices. In this talk, we’ll discuss these pain points, the root cause of them, and how we as a web design and development community can work together to fix it.
