LIVE Portfolio Roast for Senior and Staff Product Designers

🔥 PORTFOLIO SPRINT · 18, 20 & 25 Nov · Join 👉 https://our-paths.com/portfolio-sprint/ Your positioning and one case study, rebuilt in one week Live on Zoom · €390, or €340 each with a buddy until 15 Nov 🎤 With Radu Vucea, Head of Product Design @ XO Life (ex-Meta, ex-Adobe), and me, Founder @ PATHS, ex-Design Recruiter 97 portfolios submitted. We opened them live, the way a hiring manager and a recruiter would, and said what we saw. Radu has hired designers for 10+ years. I've hired for 8. What came up again and again: titles that try to cover every role, portfolios on Google Drive, Canva or Behance, "turning complexity into simplicity" copy anyone could paste into their own site, password-protected case studies, custom cursors, six case studies where three would do, research artifacts with no decision behind them, and mockups that aren't polished. At 44:09 we show what a strong portfolio looks like, and why. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Radu and Lena 05:46 Google Drive, Canva and Behance 09:16 Portfolio 1: copy anyone could paste 14:31 Portfolio 2: where's the work? 20:15 Portfolio 3: the AI copy everyone uses 25:51 Portfolio 4: when "work" opens YouTube 28:24 Portfolio 5: portfolios that look like an operating system 33:04 Portfolio 6: when the look doesn't match the work 38:14 Portfolio 7: walls of text and screens 44:09 Portfolio 8: what a strong portfolio looks like 53:27 Announcement Connect with Lena 🏗️ Build your Authority Online → https://our-paths.com/ 🌐 LinkedIn → / lena-kul 🌐 Substack → https://substack.com/@lenakul #ProductDesign #UXDesign #DesignPortfolioCHAPTERS