A mentor told me my portfolio was 'too perfect' and it stung but she was right
Back in 2018 I was going through a brutal dry spell, like 3 months of basically no calls back. A designer I used to work with, Sarah, agreed to look at my portfolio over coffee in Austin. She flipped through it and said 'this looks like you designed it for a robot, not a person.' I was kinda mad at first because I spent forever making everything match and look polished. But she pointed out I had zero process shots, no sketches, no messy early versions that show how I actually think through a problem. So I went home and dug through my hard drive for old wireframes and even a photo of my whiteboard from a messy project. I put those up next to the finished pieces and within a month I landed two web design gigs that kept me busy through summer. Has anyone else heard feedback that made them totally change their presentation?