My big "aha" moment about showing process work came from a friend's offhand comment

I used to just put my final designs in my portfolio and call it good. Never showed any sketches or wireframes or anything like that. Then last month a buddy who runs a small agency in Omaha glanced at my site and said "so you just magically arrive at your designs?" That hit me hard. I realized hiring managers probably want to see how I think through problems, not just the pretty end result. So I spent a weekend digging up old notebooks and saving some rough mockups I'd thrown away. Now my portfolio has a few case studies showing the messy middle bits. Has anyone else had that moment where you realized your portfolio was missing the whole story?

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bailey.xena3d ago

Same thing happened to me when a mentor casually said my book looked like a "finished product store" instead of a design thinking space... really made me rethink everything, @finley_walker57.

finley_walker574d ago

That "magically arrive" comment reminds me of when my dad asked if I just "guess" the answers to math problems.