Computer Arts

Top left: concepts

exploring the future

of financial services

for an app focusing on

the data visualisation

of spending habits.

Left and above:

ustwo’s concepts for

the booking journey

and destination pages

on eurostar’s new

responsive website.

“My first portfolio was a massive a1 folder i put together at

school to apply for an art foundation course” recalls anjoli

dey lead product designer at ustwo. “once i graduated from

university in 2006 it had shrunk down to an a3 box with

prints objects and artefacts. The tutors told us this was

the best way at the time to present and preserve work.”

when she moved to london in search of a job Dey felt it was

time to make an online portfolio. “I made it using Dreamweaver”

she recalls. “I had no clue what I was doing but I muddled

through and hacked it together somehow.”

when she began working in agencies she found herself

working for a range of similar clients and this meant that her

portfolio lacked variety. “I didn’t want to be pigeonholed though

so I would take on personal or freelance projects to show off my

other skills and interests” she explains. “In the last few years

my role has changed and I’m now wearing many hats including

research user experience and design so that has to be reflected

in my portfolio too” she continues.

“I find updating the portfolio the most difficult job a designer

has to undertake” she admits. “which is why mine is currently

‘under maintenance’! you have to discipline yourself and treat it

like a client project. And then there’s the dreaded nDA. So much

of the work I’ve created over the last few years is under lock and

key or not yet released which is so frustrating.”

evoLuTion of a porTfoLio

RoSIe FeRRIS’ colleAgue AnjolI Dey hAS A FolIo

ThAT’S evolveD wITh heR FRom STuDenT To SenIoR

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