How to write project case studies for your portfolio

• Create a list of projects you have completed in the past three years.
• Carefully review the following questions.
• Assign a point for each affirmative answer.
• A higher score indicates a greater likelihood of the project being the fittest for an interview.

• People or business problem
• Solution and key design elements
• The role, individual contribution, XFN
• If you feel more comfortable with STAR (situation, task, actions, results), use that.

• State the problem in one sentence.
• Define the audience and why that problem was important for them
• Explain why you picked that problem
• Think about the expected outcome: what did you want to achieve before approaching the problem?

Showcase your results.

Explain your individual contribution.

• To simplify our calculation, let’s suggest you have 10 minutes per project, that's 640 words per project (excluding questions and jokes).
• You have to cover a lot of ground: problem statement, solution, and your contribution.
• Speech is vastly different from reading (it takes longer to pronounce than to read).
• Nobody reads on the internet. Short descriptions with specific titles help the hiring party to learn what they want.

• Avoid large amounts of text. Keep titles only.
• Use LARGE images because you don't know what kind of devices people will use to watch your presentation (if online).
• Use one screen/layout per slide. Don't cram different layouts/screens into one slide, it is very misleading and ambiguous (harder to understand).