Portfolio Design

Your portfolio should show how you think, not just what you built.

I bring decades of experience in learning design and graphic design to sharpen the portfolio you already have: clearer positioning, stronger case studies, and a visual system that shows how you diagnose problems, make decisions, and handle constraints. Your work stays yours. I just help it make a better case for you.

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Built specifically for learning designers, instructional designers, and learning experience professionals.

Illustrative case study structure

What every rewritten case study will show

01
Context

What you were asked to solve, and the constraint that made it hard.

02
Decision

The judgment call you made, and why a hiring manager should trust it.

03
Evidence

The skill it proves you have, and the role it qualifies you for next.

Fictional learning experience designer Jordan Ellis mapping a learning prototype

See what is possible

Explore a complete portfolio built around professional judgment.

Meet Jordan Ellis, a fictional learning experience designer created to demonstrate how positioning, visual storytelling, and performance-centered case studies can work together in a custom portfolio.

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Jordan, the clients, projects, career history, and outcomes shown in this example are fictional.

The portfolio problem

A polished portfolio can still leave a hiring manager with no reason to call.

Hiring managers are not only evaluating whether you can make an attractive course or interface. They are looking for evidence that you can diagnose a problem, make sound decisions, work through constraints, and contribute to an outcome. See how three different portfolios handle this in my instructional design portfolio examples breakdown.

What gets overlooked

Polished screens without context

A beautiful artifact cannot explain what you contributed, why the solution took that form, or how you handled the difficult decisions.

What creates confidence

Visible professional judgment

A strong portfolio connects each project to a capability the target role requires and makes your thinking easy to understand.

What I redesign

I am not decorating the portfolio. I am strengthening the case it makes for you.

Every page and project should help a hiring manager answer one question: should we talk to this person?

PositioningClarify the role, audience, and professional value you want the portfolio to communicate.
Case studiesRestructure projects around context, judgment, contribution, and evidence.
Visual systemCreate a coherent, accessible design that supports the story instead of competing with it.
ExperienceMake the site responsive, focused, fast, and easy for a hiring manager to navigate.

The process

Designed around the hiring decision.

The program combines strategy, writing, visual design, and development to build a portfolio around the hiring decision. After launch, I will track whether the new experience creates stronger recruiter responses, screening calls, and interviews.

01

Target

Define the roles, employers, and capabilities your portfolio needs to support.

02

Audit

Evaluate positioning, projects, case studies, visual design, and hiring friction.

03

Design

Rewrite, restructure, and build the experience around credible professional evidence.

04

Measure

Track portfolio views, recruiter responses, screening calls, and interviews after launch.

Pricing

Choose the level of help your portfolio needs.

Scope, deliverables, revision limits, and timelines are defined before work begins.

Improve an existing site

Portfolio Update

Focused redesign

$495

One-time price · Two payments available
Comparable redesign servicesTypically $750–$1,500+
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For a functional portfolio that needs sharper positioning, stronger case studies, and a more credible visual presentation.

  • Hiring-positioning and portfolio audit
  • Homepage message and hierarchy update
  • Two restructured case studies
  • Visual and mobile improvements
  • Before-and-after scorecard
  • 30-, 60-, and 90-day follow-up
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A complete owned portfolio

Complete Portfolio Build

Full-service build

$1,250

One-time price · Four payments available
Comparable custom servicesTypically $1,500–$5,000+
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For a learning professional who needs strategy, writing, design, development, and launch support from the ground up.

  • Role and audience strategy
  • Homepage, About page, and up to three case studies
  • Custom responsive visual system
  • Complete GitHub repository
  • Vercel or Netlify deployment support
  • Analytics and hiring-funnel measurement plan
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No hiring guarantees or platform lock-in. A portfolio is one part of the hiring process, so the service cannot promise a job or interview. Full-build clients own their source repository, domain, and hosting account. Additional case studies and ongoing maintenance are scoped separately.

Own the finished work

Your portfolio should not depend on my platform.

Complete builds include a portable GitHub repository and launch support in an account you control. Vercel or Netlify keeps the site fast, flexible, and easy to move later.

Full-build handoff

Repository + deployment + documentation

You receive the site files, deployment configuration, domain guidance, analytics setup, and a practical handoff for future updates.

Get started

Make it easier for the right employer to see why they should talk to you.

Start with a short fit check. I will look at your target role, current portfolio, and the evidence your work needs to communicate.

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