As well as receiving feedback from the group in the portfolio critique, I also had reviewed everyone’s portfolio by giving feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of the portfolio.
Although, I had given about half of the group balanced amounts of strengths and weaknesses since they had put much more effort into their portfolios while the rest had just started creating one or only created their social media accounts to post their work, meaning there would be more weaknesses than strengths.
Again, just like receiving my feedback, I felt disappointed that at least a few of us hadn’t put a lot of effort into creating a portfolio even though we had been given a week to create it. On the bright side, I was very impressed with those who have put a lot of effort into their portfolios which consisted of creative designs and neat layouts of screenshots and annotation to explain the process of how they were able to create certain projects. This impressed me enough that I even struggled to think about what they could do to improve.
I can recall a portfolio design that was said to have interactivity for each page, making it stand out more with its animations and another portfolio design made inside Adobe InDesign with detailed pages and annotation of projects that also included animations. These portfolios impressed me the most making me realize that animations was a missed opportunity for something I could have done to improve the layouts of different pages, for it to stand out.
Overall, this portfolio critique was a good opportunity to look at what people in my college have worked on and share my own work so that I am able to improve my portfolio using their feedback. I can see that some students in the group have a lot of potential to make their portfolios better so that it fits with their interests, compared to the rest (including myself) who had more of a head start to make their portfolios creative and detailed.
Jamie Norris 