public portfolios = bad?
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- cannonball1978
Given the nature of stealing work and putting work that is bound by NDAs in a portfolio, how do you guys feel about password protecting portfolios as an industry standard?
- SoulFly0
Define NDAs
- moldero0
this is what
- SoulFly0
If you gonna go as far as password protect your portfolio, might as well not have it online at all and send a PDF instead.
- totally, or just switch profession, restaurant cashier or ice cream truck driver for exampleMiguex
- hahahakingsteven
- Hombre_Lobo0
Define portfolios
- portfolio: A site where work is postedabettertomorrow
- define postedHombre_Lobo
- posted: Placed or positioned somewhereabettertomorrow
- cannonball19780
pdfs dont communicate case studies well all the time, and sending out files = lack of control.
- threadpost0
Yessir, that's what I do.
I couldn't care less if random strangers, even among the design community see my work.
What I would consider my best work, is as you said, bound by NDA's or is pitch work. If it is actually live for the world, it is often so diluted and modified by too many committees pixel fucking it to the point of unrecognizablity. Stuff I've done for alcohol, bank or auto brands are so entrenched in internal politics or limited by legalese, the creativity is lost.
Send your stuff to prospective employers under the caveat that its likely comp or pitch work. And as I've hired designers in the passed, I always find that stuff to be far more interesting anyway.
- abettertomorrow0
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- SoulFly0
well... you know need to password protect, just don't give out the site out to public. Keep it on the downlow.
I find password protected sites a turn off.
- well...r u looking at a stack of resumes & looking 2 hire some1, or just perusing? big difference.threadpost
- __TM0
we have a separate portfolio with our strategic brand work that we only show in a personal face to face meeting, because that work is totally confidential and protected by NDAs. Don't even want to put that online on a protected site. Just saying.
- yeah but you are on a professional level. We are just hacks, we don't get to meet face to face with clients most of the time.SoulFly
- abettertomorrow0
If its protected by NDAs, you are violating the NDA by showing it in a face to face meeting too.
- a wink and a nod. gotta use your best judgment for sure, but yeah you're right, technically.threadpost
- you wont know that if im password protecting my site. not that id do that :|cannonball1978
- SoulFly0
put it this way... as a potential client, if I come across a password protected site, I have reason to doubt the integrity and work ethics of this person. What do they have to hide? Why are they over protective? Paranoid?
I'm just saying, it is a big turn off to come across password protected sites, if you are confident you shouldn't worry, as per NDAs, what is an NDA anyway, does that even exist??- usually they apply to the period before the brand/product is launched.__TM
- then you sir, are terminally unique. decision makers understand value in seeing the evolution of how u solved particular design or U/I probs.threadpost
- ...solved design, brand or U/I challengesthreadpost
- threadpost0
When showcasing portfolio work, both for agencies I worked for or to show my personal stuff, I've usually produced two different versions. One public facing and one private. The private one only gets shown in meetings or is behind p/w protection. Cant risk a potential client having works-in-progress, work done for their competition or brand exploration work openly available.
Show just enough to get your foot in the door, then when pitching or presenting let em have it...but you know, don't really let them "have it".
- abettertomorrow0
Define define
- SoulFly0
So we come to a conclusion.
One public portfolio site for the non-NDA, non-stolen stuff
Another private protected site for the NDA & stolen work.Sounds good to me.
- I mean protected from being stolen work.SoulFly
- Might be good to have another password protected site within the password protected site.abettertomorrow
- Might want to password-protect this thread while you're at it.nato