The Beginner’s Guide to Creating a UX Portfolio on Medium

My UX students often ask how I built my portfolio on Medium. Having a UX portfolio worked wonders for me during the interviewing process. I had multiple interviews that all stemmed from employers finding my case studies on Medium.

I thought it would be advantageous to create a comprehensive guide to share how I built mine.

With so many website-building tools clamoring for our attention, like Wix, Squarespace, Wordpress and others, it’s tough to decide which one to use. I personally like the way Medium takes care of the formatting for me and I can simply focus on writing my UX case studies.

In this guide, we’ll create a basic portfolio for one of my side projects called, “One Happy Dad”.

This guide works best if you follow along on a desktop browser.

I. Getting Started

(Skip to step II if you’ve already created a Medium account.)

The first step is pretty obvious — you need an account. So, if you haven’t already, sign up with an email address or Facebook account that you’d like to use for your portfolio.