Designing Your Portfolio

Designing Your Portfolio

Using basic principles of good design will make your portfolio easier for your professors, family, friends, and others to read and understand your progress. Although Pathbrite does a lot of the design work for you, anything you post on your portfolio should still be easy to read.  The easiest way to remember the basics is the PARC acronym, which stands for proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast.

Here are some resources to help you:

• "Visual Design:  Why it Matters & How to Make it Better" (Powerpoint, video, and Web site):  http://visualdesign.foliotek.me
• "CRAP Design" (Powerpoint):  http://www.slideshare.net/lisadawley/crap-design Links to an external site.
• Basic Design Principles (PDF):  http://bit.ly/15ATVip Links to an external site.
• "A Non-Designer's Guide to Typefaces" (Lifehacker site):  http://lifehacker.com/5899904/a-non+designers-guide-to-typefaces-and-layout Links to an external site.