Product Designer Portfolio Reviews: Tips from a Miro Recruiter and Head of Design
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
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In today’s video we’ll take a look at some product design portfolios that got people hired at Miro. Miro’s experts, Lena and Robert, will share the first things they look for as a Design Recruiter and Head of Design in product design portfolio examples, including tips that make you stand out above the competition.
We’ll also share the mistakes you’re likely making, and how to fix them. This video will be helpful if you’re wondering how to become a product designer or just looking for your next product design job.
Hosts
🌟 Lena Kul, Tech Recruiting Lead at Miro / lena-kul
🌟 Robert Kortenoeven, Head of Core Product Design at Miro / robertkortenoeven
Portfolio links
🌟 Daniel Fosco, Senior Product Designer at Miro danielfos.co/
🌟 Elvis Obania, Senior Product Designer at Miro pitch.com/public/6851c6c7-d13...
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:01 CV and portfolio high-level tips
02:50 Portfolio 1: Senior Product Designer, Platform
07:55 Portfolio 2: Senior Product Designer, Growth
17:55 Portfolio 3: Head of Product Design
25:27 Outro
Learn more about Life at Miro
👉 miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/
👉 / wearemiro
👉 / mirohq
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
Thank you for the video! I'll be sharing it with my Polish audience for sure 🫶
For junior designers, it's usually difficult to understand that mentioned general overview, easiness of use, and the first impression mean more than super detailed and long-form case studies. I'm glad you mentioned this topic here 😊
I would like to add a point here that presentation of conceptual craft design and hierarchical methodology is the best way to convey the insights and depth of a product which helps everyone understand it very quickly and saves you alot of time and thus feeds your company to keep prosper.
This is what I love every time. The c.v needs to be like like er yeah a link for a portfolio and and er yeah clear. 0 out 10 for being helpful as per.
Basically these candidates worked at great companies before and these people from big companies won’t give you a chance until you get your foot in the door somewhere else.
Go make a ‘fun and awesome’ looking portfolio. Means nothing.
Sounds like I need to apply here 😊. I gave a bit of thought to Miro recently. Will be pinging with PixelPanda soon, stay tuned (19yrs in the trenches, took a 6 mo sabbatical to ‘fine tune’ my ML experience specific to prod design but back at it).
Cheers for the insight, def aligned with how your team approaches these things but would love to dig in a bit deeper.
I find this video very insightful. Thanks for sharing and expecting more like this in future. Thank you Team Miro!
Video was super engaging! Should do more more like this 🙌
Thank you both, that was so insightful. Hope to be part of such an amazing team one day, inspiring others the same way you are inspiring me.
This video was so helpful! Content like this should be shared by other companies too! Super inspiring. Thank you Team Miro!
We love that you found it useful! There's more great content like this coming up 👀
Thanks for this video, extremally valuable information that I will implement right away.
Thank you. Really helpful insights 😊
Please continue this video series. Insightful!
Glad you found it useful!
As a growing designer, good and honest content like this put my career in check and help me plan better.
The amount value i got from this video cannot be weighed; so please accept my subscription, like and best wishes for the future.
Just maybe, I'll work at Miro someday.
Please keep up the good work 💛
Thank you for the kind words, we're glad you found it helpful!
These guys are most definitely creative leaders. POV is not important in product or UX design.
Really appreciated this!
Would be interesting to see aswell the porfolio of people who got an internship with you guys.
Not all of us is a senior with an already estabilished portfolio :)
Thank you so much for posting this video. This was a very informative and insightful look at how recruiters and product leads review portfolios. It really cleared my head from other complex portfolios that take a lot of time to build and may not be that impactful. Really appreciated this video.
So glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this insigthful feedback and the points that you've highlighted. It is definitely useful for all of us on the other side of application process 😊
Thank you! We're glad you found it helpful.
its very helpful thanks for that make it more and more
wow this video enlighten me.
Would have liked to see and gain more insight into the leadership portfolio
Hey, thanks a lot, this video is the one I was looking for so long. Your honesty and sincerity encourages!) Please, do more such a content that contributes beginner designers become better!
We will! There's lots of great content coming up!
Thank you for this video! This is super helpful! I am not a current designer, but I'm hoping to break into the field. I am wondering what things I need to do to make my portfolio standout with no real experience.
Passion projects, personal projects, side projects, whatever it’s called today, try solving problems from the real world with design, and make a case study.
love this, excited to see more of these videos 💛
Thanks for watching, we're glad you found it helpful!
I've been working as ui ux intern and this video is worth it ! very informative and well everyone loves to be at miro some day, including me.
Love this! The video embodies the nature of Miro, collaboration! Thank you for this:)
Thank you so much!
@@lifeatmiro excited for next videos!
Great video! Thanks! But speaking of accessibility, does a visitor to the portfolio have to sign up for Miro to view a Miro portfolio, or can anyone instantly access it?
this is so helpful! thanks!
You're so welcome!
Really helpful! thanks!
You're welcome!
Funnily enough, I tutor on Preply while studying design and I liked the design shown in this video much better than the new design they have now
@lifeatmiro I have questions regarding the second portfolio. Are the pitch slides submitted during the application process, or are they for the presentation? And if they are meant for the application process, is this the only project submitted, or does it come with other work links?
good question
Hi there, the portfolio is submitted as part of the application process, usually through a link to a website or an uploaded PDF. Along with the portfolio you'll also submit your resume and optional cover letter.
@@lifeatmiro I think the question was meant to ask if they have multiple case studies or did they just submit the one?
Love Lena Kul so much. being her mentee has really helped me achieve so much in my journey.🎉🎉🎉🎉
We love to hear it!
How to achieve that personalised branding for your website?
That's the job of the designer. Give your personality
Going to challenge one point: In my design lead career I’ve been able to bring an unstoppable force to my designers through ⚡️ Lightning sessions (aka 1:1 design mentoring and exercises weekly with each designer until they rank up).
I’d never formally admit this but I had two teams walk out and quit the moment I transitioned to a new role due to “leadership” revoking that level of hand to hand mentor precision.
My point is I suppose, that I couldn’t have possibly been a ‘leader that creates more leaders’ having not been where they are. We really don’t need managers in this industry. PM’s are great for that. We need design lead design leaders so in tuned with their craft, they should be able to spot the slightest of potentials or mere reflections of a future “Employee version 3” in every interaction.
My question is, how are you going to know which of these exist without proof of past of life from-cadet? It’s easy to mistake team success with lead success in massive FAANG envoys with infinite revenue pits. I find this to be the only demarcator for bonding lead success stories to truth in where that lead stands with lead *design* success stories.
Thanks!
I’ve heard of companies talking about how difficult it is to find the right candidates, so it could be helpful to see from a job seekers point of view.
Like you, job seekers don’t have time to read a lot of text. We’re applying for tens of jobs every day, so if a job posting has several paragraphs about how their company is a “Leader in the industry” and using vague business Jargon that any company can use, then I wouldn’t apply.
I want to know right away what your company does, and what you need from your new potential employee. Long winded job postings like this give me the impression that the managers will also be vague and not be able to pin point what we’re doing as a team, or provide constructive feedback.
Are you guys also hiring frontend developers? If so I would love to know what you look for in your perfect candidate.
Hi there! You can always check our open positions here: miro.com/careers/open-positions/
Creative and playful because they put a star on it?
It is really insightful, would really love more of these.
It would be really helpful if you can provide their portfolio links in the description or in a pinned comment.
Thanks for your feedback! We've added the portfolio links to the description box.
Why people locked their portfolio especially Product Designers? Most of the time I find their site are locked. Is that necessary?
Hi there! Sometimes designers lock their sites as their portfolios contain confidential information about their clients or previous workplaces that can't be shared publicly. If you're interested in viewing a portfolio from a designer you admire, we'd suggest to reach out to them directly.
@@lifeatmiro Okay, thanks for the info 👍
hey guys.. u guys are visual communicators... maybe use some images and videos to describe them talking
Thanks for the feedback!
Sorry, describe whom talking? Do you feel the descriptions of the portfolios and designs they showed lacked context or just the amount of imagery shown? Interested to hear deeper feedback around this. Cheers
It's so lazy when hirers assume that your portfolio is a reflection of what you can do as a design professional--because they forget the strangeness of the hiring process, mistake themselves for the actual users you'll design for, and tend to have selfish expectations--like wanting to be entertained (ahem) and not wanting to do much reading. Summarizing past work and dealing with yourself and the anxiety of a job search is so different than being motivated by other people and other problems to solve, working as part of a team. And any recruiter worth their salt should know that interviewing well is at best a modest indicator of performing well in the job.
Guys cmon, all you need to ascertain is: can this lad do a decent job with the tasks I have in the next 12 months pipeline? It’s as simple as that, you’re not marrying him/her.
Her comments are extremely biased being that she has already hired and likes these people.
I passionately hate emojis. Such a turn off.
Look at how proud you are, clicking away to another resume, while that person had placed their whole hope in being chosen. It disgusts me. Work hard, good people, and liberate yourselves, become freelancers.
How will you get better as a designer without constructive criticism?
“their whole hope” how do you know that? many people don’t want to work freelance, they want to join a company. This is simply an insight into how a hiring manager thinks, one which seems perfectly reasonable
Work smart, not hard.
Also interesting that a childish style is being branded as FUN 😂😂
Damn can these designers be any worse?