October 1, 2025
Tips for Curating Your Design Portfolio
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How do you build a compelling design portfolio? In this review, Cemre and I explore streamlining their projects to focus on their creative strengths. I provide tips on crafting comprehensive case studies, removing unnecessary work, and aligning with their career goals.
Key Points
Formatting your design portfolio presentation PDF.
How to present design projects individually rather than by category.
How to narrow down and focus your design projects.
How to build comprehensive design project overviews.
To Think On
What are the 1-2 creative areas you want to focus on moving forward?
What are the key deliverables and skills that you learned and executed for those projects that viewers should know about?
Actionable
Narrow down and remove projects that don't align with your career goals.
Flesh out your top projects into full case studies.

meet the design guy
Jon Sorrentino
I'm a product designer partnering with founders worldwide. I've led design at PepsiCo, Barstool Sports and high-growth startups. I believe the best design happens when you keep your hands in the work.
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