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Online Portfolios

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 Before

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Online Portfolios

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  1. Online Portfolios For Planners

  2. Online Portfolios For Planners

  3. Content: Tailor it to your audience What are they interested in?

  4. Branding: How are you different? LinkedIn Before I 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. Branding: How are you different? Long, but interesting summary for a traditional planner. Walkable neighborhoods rock star.

  7. 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.

  8. Edit Yourself

  9. Content II: Essential components • Best projects

  10. Content II: Essential components • Best projects • Resume

  11. Content II: Essential components • Best projects • Resume • Contact: email, phone, linkedIn, Skype/ facetime/ googlechat

  12. How to Set Up the Content • Tell a story

  13. How to Set Up the Content • Tell a story • What was the problem

  14. How to Set Up the Content • Tell a story • What was the problem • BRIEF process summation

  15. How to Set Up the Content • Tell a story • What was the problem • BRIEF process summation • Solution was clever because...

  16. How to Set Up the Content • Tell a story • What was the problem • BRIEF process summation • Solution was clever because... • Did we mention brief?

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

  18. 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 

  19. Is it Really Working? • TEST your site • mac, pc, tablet, phone, and on different browsers.

  20. 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

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