San Francisco Bay Area, remote is fine. I've been a UX director for years, now freelancing primarily with startups as I get the experience to start my own.
Hey, I hope you don't mind me giving you some feedback on your portfolio site:
1. Illustrator does this weird thing with curved paths where the the auto-artboard-shrinker thing crops the curves at the borders, so the curved letters in your logotype are getting cut off. You have to go in and manually resize the crop area to account for that.
2. Your actual work is fantastic, but your presentation is really, really bad. I'm not sure if it's a default PowerPoint template, but it sure looks like one. Make every part of your portfolio speak to your strengths!
3. Using Scribd to serve your portfolio isn't a good idea. It pixellates your presentation and frames it in its awful UI. You're a UX director, remember? Take me on a guided tour of your previous work and make me believe that you're really able to add some magic to my crappy UX. Alternatively, just use large static images that are nicely arranged so that I can easily see what I need to see to make an assessment of your work.
When I'm hiring and I see sites like yours (where the work is fantastic but the site is mediocre) I start to ask questions. Were you really the one leading the UX vision, or were your underlings just able to fill in the gaps? If you were working as a group, were you actually contributing that much?
I think that's great feedback. I'm definitely suffering from the "cobbler's children go barefoot" syndrome. I should set aside a few days to work on my own site.
If you have any other thoughts, please send me an email. I'm always looking for constructive criticism, especially as I'm leaving the world of agency work and trying to establish myself in a product-driven world.
He's looking for a job, not advice in this thread. You are making him look bad to potential clients. If you want to help, just send him a private message.
San Francisco Bay Area, remote is fine. I've been a UX director for years, now freelancing primarily with startups as I get the experience to start my own.
My portfolio can be found at http://jaysonelliot.com/about
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