Artefact 5

For my 5th artefact I wanted to find out from a wider range of students what they thought of the one page 'Profile' portfolio. I was most interested in what elements they would include in their one page portfolios, this helps me realise the potential of this style of online presence because I will know how other people will utilise the space to best portray themselves. I think it is interesting looking at what others from different professions will include to portray their work.

Evaluation of Students Thoughts

        I emailed my peers to see what they thought of the one page portfolio website, I wanted to show them the two examples that I had made and find out if they would use something like this to promote themselves and their work online. As I emailed students throughout various disciplines within the university, I wanted to know what they would include on their one page portfolios to see what various elements would be seen as important to show.

Most people said they would only include a small about me section, I found this really interesting as it told me that they wanted their work to do most of the talking for them. Everyone wanted to include a portfolio of their work, which was expected because that is the main purpose of the website but the other elements varied from person to person. Some wanted to include a Twitter or LinkedIn feed whilst others thought that these feeds were too personal and “would render the objective useless”.

I could sense from the responses that people would be keen to adopt this style of portfolio because they talked about how they would make it their own, not just by the elements that they would include but how they would style the page with their own images and taste.

This gave me confidence that one page portfolio website could well be future of an effective online presence.