This Design Portfolio got me a job at Vercel

By Sneak Peek Design

Categories: Design, Product

Summary

A 6'4" designer created an interactive Figma prototype to land a job at Vercel, using reusable components and custom transitions to showcase his work.

Key Takeaways

1. Using a Figma prototype instead of a website allowed the designer to create a more interactive and customized portfolio presentation.
2. The designer structured his Figma prototype with reusable components and templates to easily update and navigate through the presentation.
3. Tailoring the portfolio format to his personal presentation style, rather than using slides, helped the designer showcase his design skills more effectively.

Topics

• Interactive Portfolio Presentations
• Figma Prototyping for Job Interviews
• Design Portfolio Best Practices

Transcript Excerpt

Why did you decide to create like a presentation in Figma instead of using your portfolio website when presenting? I didn't want to be burdened by making a website about this. Um, I don't like slides necessarily. So, the way that I I make these presentations is much more like a prototype. That's just the way I think about things. So, it's a lot of like unlinear flows. I knew all my design stuff was already in Figma, so I just wanted to bring it in and use that. And then screenshots and stuff lik...