Self-Assessment (Chapter 2: Designing a Digital Portfolio)

Strengths and Weaknesses
Education: Certificate/Bachelor’s degree

Educational experience in a supporting profession:
Typography, Graphic design, some user-interface/interaction

Work experience in a related/supporting profession:
Graphic design/print, Typography (10+ years)

Software training/experience:
Photoshop (better than average), Illustrator (better than average), Quark (better than average), InDesign (better than average), some Acrobat, Dreamweaver (about average/still learning), some Final Cut Pro (wouldn’t want to revisit this class)

Goals

Why am I making a digital portfolio?
Need the experience, looking for job (unemployed), professional project record

If your portfolio needs are job related, check the statements that apply:
I want to do specialized work in my profession*
My previous job was unfulfilling*

How do you like to work?
Alone and sometimes in collaboration or partnership

What is your preferred working environment?
I need a private space

Select the statement that fits you best:
I won’t accept some types of clients or client work (no catalogs!)

Personality
Check the words that best describe the work you’ve done (“no more than 5” – I chose 6, so sue me.)
Confident
Analytical
Detailed
Organized
Boring
Structured