I've been working on a personal rebrand and a new design portfolio from scratch the past few months. I've been tinkering around with Tumblr, Markdown, Liquid, Handlebars, Metalsmith, Jekyll, static CMSs...
I bought a new domain to host my portfolio and saved usernames on the sites I planned to use (specifically Behance, Facebook, Instagram and Medium) and set up a custom domain email.
I originally planned to use social media this way:
- .com domain: CV, social media profile index, digital business card, complete design case studies.
- Medium: Occasional writing.
- Behance: Less curated visual design collection.
- Instagram: Work in progress.
- Facebook: Short updates (I hate Facebook but I think it's still very relevant to my target audience).
I then, inspired by this design case study on Medium, came with the idea of posting my complete case studies on Medium instead. So my social media lineup would look like this:
- .com domain: CV, social media profile index, digital business card, +Medium case studies index.
- Medium: Occasional writing, +complete design case studies.
I came with this idea for the following reasons:
- Medium promotes content and writers, so I can reach a bigger and more diverse audience (I don't expect my case studies to blow up or anything, but being featured and referenced would be nice).
- The design is clean, responsive and the discussion is civil.
Still, I'm afraid I look unprofessional to employers or potential clients because of the presentation. I don't want to look like I don't know how to run website when I'm advertising some freelance web design services.
What do you guys think?
PS: There are plenty of reasons I don't want to build my main portfolio on Behance. Also, I hate Dribbble.
Great design resource
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Submitted December 28, 2017 at 01:05AM by zefranaga http://ift.tt/2l71wC0
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