Portfolio Review

The Best Portfolios

Elements in common

• Pleasant design, e.g. Celina's, Yusra's, and Jaym's.
• Easy to navigate.
• Legible text - Yusra's is alright, but the others are all poorly formatted.

Examples

• Jajm's is pretty good - pleasant design and easy to navigate, although lumping all the text together on one page isn't the best idea.  The design compensates for it, though.
• Yusra's is the best - the only issue is the poor legibility.  She should really have made text a bit larger.  Other than that, the design is simple, straightforward, and easy to navigate with an unambiguous navigation menu to the left.
• Kiet's design is nice, and is also quite easy to navigate.

The Weaker Portfolios

• Unpleasant design, e.g. Johnathan's.
• Difficult to navigate/confusing.
• Text is hard to read, e.g. Matthew's and Olivia's.
• In general, legibility is an issue.  Most of the blogs had very hard-to-read text that could be improved by making the text larger, darker, and with a larger line-spacing.

Examples

• Johnathan Kuo's is unfortunate.  The design and colors are painful, and elements are just poorly arranged on the page.  I can't even see the guy's name on the front page, it's extremely confusing as to what this site even is.  There should at least be an intro of some sort where it's visible.