Roasting your UI/UX design portfolios | Portfolio design tips

I'll be roasting 6 of your UI/UX design portfolios - sharing honest feedback, ways to improve and mistakes to watch out for. Leave your video suggestions in the comments below - I can't respond to all of your messages but I do read all of them 🙏
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🔗 Portfolios Roasted
#1: Vaibhav Shivalkar - www.behance.net/vaibhavshivalk
#2: Jessica Zheng - jessicazheng.co
#3: Anosha Ashfaq - uxfol.io/anoshashfaq
#4: Jacob Zheng - jzheng.co
#5: Rabia Khan - rabiakhan8492.wixsite.com/uxp...
#6: Sam Faldraga - samfaldraga.myportfolio.com/work
Chapters
00:00 Ready, set, roast
00:19 Vaibhav
02:31 Jessica Zheng
06:25 Anosha Ashfaq
10:33 Jacob Zheng
11:52 Rabia Khan
13:55 Sam Faldraga
17:35 Summary of the roast
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[@ekeminimark]

You should do more of this... This is really insightful

[@rachelhow]

Thanks for the feedback! 😁

[@itsjeanyu]

I agree, please do more videos like this, Rachel! Super useful! Thank you!

[@rachelhow]

Thank you for leaving your portfolio link to me! This is a roast, but to be honest, the designers in the video has done a great job taking charge of their career. What you'd like to see next? Feel free to suggest my next video here! I can't respond to all of your messages but I do read all of them 🙏

[@alishabarretto2755]

Will there be an episode 2?

[@Ana-ut4my]

I would suggest, for example - the top 5 bad websites where you would explain to us what is not good (something like a video about redesigning Nespresso's webiste). Also, I'm interesting how to prepare for 1st interview and what you would say to yourself as a beginner (what to study and what not to waste time on). Thank you 🤗

[@farahfranco]

I'd love to know the correct way of thought process for UI/Visual designers

[@samfaldraga4391]

Thanks for including my portfolio Rachel! You’re the first experienced designer to give me feedback so I will definitely be working on improving my case studies. I know the UI skills are more of a longterm goal so I’ll be working on that as I go :)

[@rachelhow]

Hey Sam! First of all, thank you for sharing your portfolio with me!! It’s already a huge step you’re taking towards your career - kudos to that. All the best to you 💪🏻

[@footprintsandpoetry9876]

I absolutely agree with everyone saying this is an informative useful video. I am currently creating my own portfolio and the critique you are providing is really good for beginner UX designers like me and anyone who has been in the industry redoing their portfolio.

[@anastasiaimmi2859]

How is you portfolio doing?)

[@anoshaashfaq3777]

Thanks for featuring my portfolio and providing feedback Rachel! It was definitely daunting to submit my portfolio but the feedback is great 😅

[@rachelhow]

You're so welcome Anosha! Thanks for letting me review it, keep going ❤️

[@nemanjakuzminac]

@@rachelhow Hey Rachel why did you skip reading Anosha's last name? 🙃

[@divineanyanwu3452]

This is really insightful Rachel. Any chance you could share what a typical good design portfolio would look like, so we can better appreciate some of the great points you're making.

[@marketing_designer]

I improve my English with your video. Thanks for content ❤

[@sudarshanmiradwal5935]

Very informative , best way to get motivated and inspired😄

[@rekt3651]

Thank you for doing this and everyone who shared their portfolios

[@mehjebinmujeeb1780]

I learned so much from this video! Great one for a beginner like me! 😉

[@samahsaeed1261]

What i learned from this video is : Impact Impact and Impact is what will make your case study more intresting

[@rachelhow]

Yes!

[@ShizFizz]

Thank you for featuring it!, yeah I think I'll need to rework some of the projects as they've quite heavy in video/photos. Not sure why the images in Iterations didn't load properly :( I'll be excluding Harry's project from my portfolio once I finish my case study as I haven't been allowed full creative control over the website, I'm personally not happy with how it looks either

[@TranquilWanderer]

So excited to watch this!!

[@anjteevee3711]

this is a smart content, giving feedback for the design portfolios and I'm sure this will really help. Hoping one day I'll be able to design my own portfolio and would have the honor to be reviewed by you (crossed fingers)

[@amylaws]

Wow super helpful!!!! ✨💕

[@jessica.zheng18]

Thank you for your roast Rachel! Haha, it was very helpful and I’ll definitely implement your feedback 😊

[@susannahdestudio9666]

Very nice video 👍📸. You are so informative in every video 😍😍

[@dune22]

Amazing breakdown! Thank you.

[@rachelhow]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thanks for watching!

[@Minal50]

Hi Rachel! Thanks for the videos. I am a beginner, started watching your videos and I really understood it. do you have recommendations for the cheapest class for beginners?

[@AquaticFeather]

Great video, very informative and inspirational! 😊

[@rachelhow]

Thank you for watching 😁

[@chewingwildflower]

Very informative thank you so much :)

[@d8nya1]

Very informative. Great things to think about

[@rachelhow]

Thanks for watching, Danya!

[@romanr5962]

Great video Rachel, thanks

[@rachelhow]

Thank you for watching!

[@_knitch]

Looks like many of them are using templates from the Google UX Course. Nothing wrong with using them for the course assessments, but they look terrible for real life purposes, so even during the course I felt like avoiding them for the most part. If anyone reading this follows the course too, make sure to mix it up and develop your own identity! Google gives good fundamentals, but standing out is up to us :)

[@itsjustpoorvi]

Hello Rachel ! Thanks for this video , I really learned a lot ! and I have a question , where can we submit our portfolios for ep2 ?

[@restymacalisang]

Rachel, I like your video edits.

[@user-qo2eb4wm1e]

thats amazing video

[@sofiad.698]

I see some people who sent you their portfolio did the ux designer course from Google. Those screenshots from the last case study were from the Google slides, google provide all the templates to the students, we only fill them and that's why we thought copying and pasting them into our portfolio website is right 😅 thanks to your video now i have to fix it

[@rachelhow]

Oh my, thanks for letting me know, Sofia! I hope this video is helpful to you!

[@farzanaasa4153]

I learned lot of valuable information from your video, Thank a lot.

[@rachelhow]

Hi Farzana! Glad it was helpful!

[@veek_thor]

Awesome video (as usual), please I'll love to have just 1 of my case study roasted, please where should I send it to? Thanks

[@Pacpaczoo]

Amazing video !!🔥 After watching this. What I need is ui/ux fundamentals. 🙈

[@timetofocus5124]

This video motivated me so much 😊. The best advice i got was from an AG&smart video. practice practice practice and put ur work out there for constructive criticism.

[@future_proof]

Such a scary roast 😫 Sometimes the truth hurts .. Always love your videos Rachel

[@willyphandry5574]

Really Insightful! Thank you so much HEHE I wish to know what books you recommend to make us greater as a Product Designer.

[@bergsonist-official]

thanks for your tips! im curious to know what do you use when making portfolios? Keynote? Sketch?

[@ashishasari4174]

please make part 2 of it.

[@BoBogoround]

Hi, Rachel. Could you pls explain what's the difference btw information architecture and user flow ? In case if we do portfolio, do we need create both of them or pick just one :) Im confusing and thanks in advance for your help :)

[@fynestAK]

Thanks for this

[@rachelhow]

My pleasure!

[@samiharahman394]

Can you do a roast for only Visual / UI designer Portfolio? Cannot find a video on these for the love of god.

[@akiyoshi477]

Hello. Is UI design still on demand? Is UX taking over UI? Everywhere i see is “UI/UX” but i want to become a UI designer and hopefully transition into UX design. Is this a good idea? I am majoring in graphic design.

[@njengathegeek]

The title is hilarious 😂😂

[@Belisiario]

10x! Are you planning on doing more?

[@vaibhavshivalkar7228]

🙌🏼 #1

[@rachelhow]

Thanks for sharing your portfolio, Vaibhav. Keep it up!

[@bhaktikulkarni2876]

Hello mam, can you make a video on how to create a portfolio for ui designer for freshers😀

[@czarscrib3680]

I love this. I would love to see your portfolio also 💕

[@rachelhow]

Thanks for watching 😁 my portfolio is on rachelhow.com :)

[@czarscrib3680]

@@rachelhow oh my God. This is so beautiful. Amazing. 💯💯💯💯

[@crag4601]

Can you make more of these

[@rachelhow]

Noted! 💕

[@hseindesigns]

way too helpful to be a roast

[@rachelhow]

🤣

[@wS21z.]

Are you planning to do portfolio reviews again this year?

[@rachelhow]

Hmm.. I might consider doing it :)

[@wS21z.]

@@rachelhow Thank you!!

[@muhammadumar5385]

Appreciated, many professional things to hear, but at some point i just said: "Hah! Women"

[@avi.creatives]

I also wanted to get roasted from Rachel How😍

[@rigidhammer7376]

first, i want to roast your accent.

[@zoekutamura2412]

Wow! You've earned another subscriber 🙋‍♀️Your insights are informative. Keep doing contents like this. 🤍

[@rachelhow]

Welcome aboard, Zoe! Thanks for watching 😁

[@statusquoreject]

Senior product designer here who enjoys your channel. Your UX critique is pretty good but I don’t agree with your UI critique. I feel you need to develop your UI taste more, but that’s just my opinion. You have a great channel!

[@Kriti_Handcrafts]

Yes very insightful but can you please share some good case studies @rachealhow