Getting Started

provides specific instructions that help you begin your portfolio development,

including the documentation, content, layout, and medium

Don't know where to start? If you aren't on a deadline, start documenting now! Otherwise, we've provided concrete tasks that will hopefully help you get the ball rolling. These five sections are made to help understand each piece on its own but in reality, the process is not strict and linear but iterative. These sections can help you focus on each piece on its own. As each piece gets developed, your whole portfolio will start coming together.

Documentation

Documentation refers to gathering information about the projects you've worked on. If you're currently working on a project, start documenting now so that everything you could want will be available to you when you create your portfolio. (read more)

Audience

Audience refers to the type of person or organization you want to see your portfolio. Is it a new school? A new job? What industry? Having an answer to these questions early on will make other decisions about your portfolio easier. (read more)

Content

Content refers to all the projects, assignments, and products you want to show in your portfolio — a subset of what you documented. There are many things you can do to get organized before you figure out what layout you want. (read more)

Layout

Layout refers to the presentation and organization of your content. There are many things you can do to start ideating and developing various layouts that you might want, and this can be done somewhat independently of your content. (read more)

Medium

Medium refers to the actual materials or "product" that you will deliver to an audience. This may be a .PDF, website, or printed artifact. (read more)