{"id":6875,"date":"2022-06-21T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:46:19","slug":"portfolio-and-case-study-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/portfolio-and-case-study-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio and case study inspiration from Miro’s Srecko Dimitrijevic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our recent Day in the Life live event with Miro’s<\/a> Srecko Dimitrijevic, the Product Designer shared some valuable insights<\/a> into breaking into the design world. With a heavy emphasis on transparency, confidence and communication, Srecko outlined the challenges he has faced in his career and how he overcame them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, he believes that designers should never stop growing and learning. Designers should always be looking for new ideas and showcasing their latest work. Srecko shared a list of resources that he turns to for portfolio and case study inspiration.<\/p>\n

You can watch our full conversation with Srecko here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Whether you’re brand new to UX or revamping your career, your portfolio<\/a> is one of the most important assets you can have.\u00a0 So if you are on the hunt for a new job or simply want to leave your mark online, take a look at some of Srecko’s favourite portfolios from people working in UX, UI and product design.<\/p>\n

\"Graeme<\/p>\n

Graeme Rutherford is a UX, interactive and service designer who done design work for the Department for Education in the United Kingdom, NHS Digital, British Gas, the United Nations, Riddle and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Arjun<\/p>\n

Arjun Mahesh<\/a> is a product designer with payment app Stripe<\/a>. In the past, he has teams and shipped products with companies like Kickstarter, Frank Gehry, Google, Amazon, and BCG.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Darshan<\/p>\n

Darshan Gajara<\/a> is the Head of Design at Hygraph<\/a>\u00a0and the publisher of Product Disrupt<\/a>. On his blog, he shares his thoughts on design and travel, as well as sharing links to his own case studies for different product design projects.<\/p>\n

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\"Alexander<\/p>\n

Alexander Kirov<\/a> is a full-stack product designer and the head of UX in the visual communications department at Logitech<\/a>. He links to a number of his own design case studies on his portfolio, which had a nice blend of humour, professionalism and simplistic yet effective designs.<\/p>\n

\"Pratibha<\/p>\n

Pratibha Joshi<\/span><\/a> is a Product Designer with Google. She has previous working experience with Microsoft and Sprinklr, specialising in social media engagement, social advertising, content marketing<\/a>, care support and analytics. In her spare time, she likes to experiment with new interactions and techniques in prototyping.<\/p>\n

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\"Jonny<\/p>\n

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Jonny Czar <\/span><\/a>is the Lead Product Designer at the online shopping community Pepper<\/a>. His portfolio links to all of the work he has done throughout his career with clients like Bookify, N26 and Ita\u00fa , as well as written work on UX topics like design feedback, usability testing and the design hiring process.<\/p>\n

\"R\u00fanar<\/p>\n

Runar Gudbjartsson II<\/span><\/a> is an Icelandic designer who is now based in New York, where he works as a Product Designer with WeWork<\/a>. His portfolio is as personable as it is professional, teaching us about him as a person and a designer. He shares different case studies from his career, including a redesign for PayPal<\/a> and an ATM finder feature<\/a> for PayPal users.<\/p>\n

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\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

Jeremy Kim<\/span><\/a> is a designer and web developer. Currently, he works on the designs systems team for Messenger<\/a> and Instagram Direct for Meta. Previously, he worked for Quora and Shopify<\/a>. On his website, he links to his resum\u00e9 and – very cleverly – he shares a timeline of his ever-changing portfolio<\/a> that captures his growth as a professional designer.<\/p>\n

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\"Zero\"<\/p>\n

Zero<\/span> is a self-taught product designer who is currently a Senior Product Designer with Soundcloud<\/a>. He is big on design system advocacy, accessibility and collaboration. While he shares some case studies for their work with Soundcloud, he also links to Figma plug ins<\/a> that he designed to create more efficient designs.<\/p>\n

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“When you do a certain design, you should have a reason why you did it and that reason shouldn\u2019t be a hunch or something like that. It should be evidence-based reasons,” explains Srecko<\/a>. “Heavy rationale will anticipate a lot of questions that you\u2019re gonna get down the road and the more you understand, the more confident you will talk about it.”<\/p>\n

This is where case studies come in. They detail your design process from start to finish, explaining the why behind every decision and providing that all-important rationale. No matter what level you are at in your design career, case studies are an excellent way to keep track of and to document your work.<\/p>\n

Here are some of Srecko’s favourite case studies.<\/p>\n