Portfolio Review
$100.00
Let's make your portfolio shine!
I’ll review your portfolio site and share a personalized doc with actionable and specific feedback so your work showcases your strengths (detailed below). Use me as your thought partner you lean on during projects! With my expertise interviewing and hiring hundreds of designers at Stripe, Mailchimp, Twilio, Faire and Pivotal Labs, I'll guide you in presenting your work in the best light possible.
Once you submit your portfolio for review, expect detailed feedback within 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) along with an invoice for your review. I'll provide recommendations in a Google Doc and a way to schedule a followup call if you have any questions or want to dive deeper.
How it works
Website Review
Recruiters and Hiring Managers are looking for quality work and great storytellers. Best in class portfolios are most commonly a public website that introduces you and your work, though a Figma presentation is also acceptable. These are typically submitted along with a resume on a company’s job page or directly with a recruiter or hiring manager. I recommend dedicating one page per project and to help reviewers understand your design approach, quality of execution, and how you make tradeoffs in your design decisions. Concise storytelling and guiding the reviewer with clear imagery of your work is key. Remember your site is just as much a portfolio piece as the content.
How it works
Submit a link to your portfolio for review during checkout.
I will send you detailed feedback via a Google Doc within 48 hours (excluding holidays and weekends), though usually my response time is faster.
That’s it! Though, folks often setup follow up consultation to talk through their next round of iteration.
Payment
All payments are made via Square. I will send you an invoice via email.
What’s in the doc
In your personalized google doc I’ll write a brief and actionable summary as well as slide-by-slide feedback to help you sweat the details.
Summary: I’ll include a brief 2-3 sentence summary recognizing the strengths of your presentation as well as areas for improvement.
Next Steps: A prioritized list of the top 5 action items I recommend.
Global Feedback: Specific bullet pointed feedback to be applied across your presentation (eg. tactical things like navigation, color or typography, page layout, how your narrative is structured, missing information across projects)
Page Specific Feedback: Specific bullet pointed feedback pointing to specific pages or sections (eg. how you frame the customer problem, context or details needed in images of work, how well your contributions or strengths come through, questions hiring managers may have).
About Nina
I’m a design leader based in Brooklyn, New York, though I built most of my tech career in San Francisco and for a year lived in Berlin to build out a new office. I was last managing teams at Faire, a marketplace for brands and retailers.
Prior to that I led several teams overseeing sub-brands, developer tools, and design systems at Mailchimp. I was an IC at Stripe and Twilio, and helped start the design and management team at Pivotal Labs scaling our hiring and design practice across 12+ offices worldwide. I’ve built and scaled hiring processes at most of these companies and reviewed hundreds of portfolios and interviewed designers in my time. I can bring my experience from the other side of the interviewing panel to help you showcase your strengths and craft a story that will show companies how much you have to offer.
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