Cofolios VS Boring Avatars

UI-UX pays well in general but the main thing you must work on will be a portfolio. Take a few classes in GSD since I know Harvard has great design classes but since Harvard doesn't have an HCI program or something similar it is something you will have to put a lot of time into developing. Go onto https://cofolios.com/ and look at some portfolios so you know what you're getting into. Source: over 1 year ago

I am a junior in college and I realized it's time for me to create a portfolio. Throughout my search, I have stumbled upon some AMAZING portfolios that are so unique and interactive. I saw them on a site called cofolios.com. It made me motivated to have a portfolio like those but I have no clue where to start. I don't want something basic using Wix or Squarespace. Does anyone have any tips on what sites are the... Source: over 1 year ago

Your website itself can be pretty simple, since the star of the show is your case studies. Webflow is free for students and has portfolio templates you can use. Check Cofolios to reference portfolios of students who successfully landed internships at big tech companies. Some of them may be a bit outdated or full-time professionals now, but they're all juniors in general, which is what you want to look at (hiring... Source: over 1 year ago

Https://cofolios.com is a great site for leading portfolio and case study examples! Source: over 1 year ago

I'd recommend doing some competitive research on portfolios. Check out cofolios.com, maybe scope out 20-30 portfolios that catch your eye, write down your observations, do a design sprint for your portfolio, get it reviewed either on reddit or on adplist, apply whatever feedback you got, then keep applying and iterating. There is a certain element to applying that makes it a numbers game, but if you keep on doing... Source: almost 2 years ago

I recently bootstrapped a company and we wanted some nice looking default images for our users that didn't upload their own and we found some out there but not too many with the goal we were looking achieve — other than boringavatars.com (where this project gets its inspiration!). We didn't want to implement avatars creators like the ones where you can customize the exact look and feel, that seemed too... Source: 8 months ago

Makes sense. I concentrated on porting what existed in boringavatars.com first. There is definitely room to alter the algorithms that generate the images now, though. Source: over 1 year ago

I would first like to thank Boring Designers for their initial work on boringavatars.com. All I did was port what they did to other frameworks using Mitosis. Source: over 1 year ago

Boring Avatars - Generate Avatars for your users faster and easier if you are lazy like me. Source: almost 2 years ago