Online Portfolios

For Planners

Online Portfolios

For Planners

Content: Tailor it to your audience

What are they interested in?

Branding: How are you different?

LinkedIn BeforeI am now an MFA graduate student in Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Interested in Product Design and User Experience Design. Now working for thesis project designing driver focused Human Machine Interface for the next generation of vehicle.

Branding: How are you different?

LinkedIn After With an Master of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the US and a Bachelor of Engineering from China, I have a unique perspective on front- and back-end development and multicultural approaches to design.

Branding: How are you different?

Long, but interesting summary for a traditional planner.

Walkable neighborhoods rock star.

Branding: Be Consistent

International students: if using an alternate name, using it consistently. A LinkedIn search for Alice Yuan return empty if your identify yourself as Xian (Alice) Yuan.

Edit Yourself

Content II: Essential components

• Best projects

Content II: Essential components

• Best projects• Resume

Content II: Essential components

• Best projects• Resume• Contact: email, phone, linkedIn, Skype/

facetime/ googlechat

How to Set Up the Content

• Tell a story

How to Set Up the Content

• Tell a story• What was the problem

How to Set Up the Content

• Tell a story• What was the problem• BRIEF process summation

How to Set Up the Content

• Tell a story• What was the problem• BRIEF process summation• Solution was clever because...

How to Set Up the Content

• Tell a story• What was the problem• BRIEF process summation• Solution was clever because...• Did we mention brief?

Image Quality

• Image quality: GIF + PNG for line art• JPG + PNG for photos.• WIX does not support PDFs• Save as web

But HOW to Set Up the Content?

• ISSUU (PDFs)• Squarespace ($50 first year for illinois.edu) or

behance (free for students $100/year after)• Wordpress• WIX

Is it Really Working?

• TEST your site• mac, pc, tablet, phone, and on different

browsers.

Tell the WORLD!

• Publish to LinkedIn• Put the URL on your resume and in letters, put

it on your business card• email a 150 x 150 thumbnail to

mplante@illinois.edu so your site will be included in FAA's portfolio listing