Had the chance to hang out with an old friend who used to work at Google as a UX recruiter. They offered up two really good tips for making sure your online portfolio is easy to build and easy to understand.

First, start filling out an outline for a case study as a project starts. You may end up ditching it depending on how the project goes, but the sooner you start capturing essential info, the easier it will be to write out your case study later. Keep track of data points, reasons why the project started in the first place, etc. Start putting some of that on your Figma files for reference too. It's better to have more things to sift through than less as you're completing project breakdowns.

Second, make sure you show the final state of a project at the TOP of your case study so that you can wow recruiters and hiring managers right off the bat. That means super nice screenshots or gifs of key screens right near some bullet points that explain your role in the project, how long it took, what kind of team you worked with, etc. Hiring managers do NOT want to have to scroll to get to the good stuff. This is especially crucial if you've just completed a UX boot camp because everyone's case studies from those look identical unless you take the time to reformat them.

Hopefully these are as meaningful tips to you as they were/are to me!