What's a good structure for a Service Design portfolio?

What's a good structure for a Service Design portfolio?

Back in the day, in my own Service Design portfolio, I used this structure for each project.

The format

  1. Challenge: Describe in form of a question that starts with “How can we…” what was the problem you were trying to solve.

  2. Context: One side note about the context which made this project especially difficult, interesting, etc.

  3. Tasks/activities: give the titles of the activities or tasks you worked on (user research, prototyping, etc.)

  4. Team: show who else worked on this project, what was their role and what was yours (service design projects are usually team efforts)

  5. Failures: describe one thing that didn’t go well. This helps you to show humility.

  6. Learnings: describe one thing that you learned in this project that you will do again in other projects

Length

The idea here is that for each point you will have only one sentence to keep it short and interesting.

Q&A: Portfolio for Service Design

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Basics of portfolio for Service Design work

  • How important is it to have a Service Design portfolio?
  • ▶️ What are examples of service design portfolios?
  • How can I improve and get my portfolio reviewed?

Tools to build and share a Service Design portfolio

  • ▶️ Can I make a Service Design Portfolio with Notion?
  • What is the best platform or tool to build a service design portfolio on? (Example: medium, WordPress, Behance, etc?)
  • What is a good site for service designers to share their work
  • ▶️ PDF of website for a Service Design portfolio?

Content of a Service Design portfolio

  • ▶️ How can I show complex Service Design work in an attractive without downplaying the efforts that went into it?
  • How can I build a service design portfolio?
  • What's a good structure for a Service Design portfolio?
  • How can I personalise my portfolio for different companies easily?

Other types of portfolio

  • What's the Value of a Portfolio for a Design Educator?