Recasting Jeff in BCS never sat right with me because I like my shows "to have that sort of... continuity." But Junior's friend Louis got swapped between S1 and S2 when they hired Banshee from X-Men. Yes, the guy with the fantastic ponytail from the liquor store scene is canonically Louis. So now everything I thought I knew is a lie.
With how much I hear that j0b titles are getting muddy, expectations for roles have shifted, business stakeholders are dubious of design's value more than ever, and AI is changing how we deliver, should we see this change reflected in the common wisdom of what online thought leaders continue to insist we must show in our p0rtfolios?
Constant, never-ending p0rtfolio crafting and optimization is easily my least favorite performative ceremony. I am so tired of rehashing work I have already finished. I am tired of hearing one week that I should show process, then the next week hear that I show too much process. One year, "UI isn't UX" and we should feel pressured to go out of our way to make everything look ugly, sans-serif, Millennial gray; the next, we can't forget about our visual and interactive chops if we want to impress.
Do I pretend work I did was a greenfield project lifted right out of bootcamp certification and that our personas are not already baked into this existing business, or do I lie? Do I hide the specification-driven, waterfall-paradigm work that forms a significant chunk of my professional history, or do I dress it up as something it isn't because the decade-younger hiring manager who will look at it isn't familiar with what to appreciate?
I don't have a history of dreaming up a dog-walking app and developing it from soup to nuts. Often my experience and seniority is spent in-house at an established company with an established product for years. Often they are desktop-first. Our clients are working medical professionals in a niche industry who need deep functionality, not busy moms on the go who can only hold three menu items in her head and is delighted by cartoon owls.
I guess I'm asking whether p0rtfolio review practices are necessarily compatible with the changes in the role. I see so much advice -- on here, LinkedIn, and elsewhere -- that just reads as executive-adjacent talking heads posturing or fishing for consultancy clients. Yes, the market is bad and all that, but is there something to be said about the gatekeeping? Is yesterday's prevailing wisdom still how we have to approach our p0rtfolio?
Most rainbow images tend to show a naive RGB mix of light rather than the colors of individual wavelengths. I wanted to try to produce a faithful representation on my screen starting with the CIE observer data and doing the math.
I wanted to explore what monochromatic spectral light looks like when forced onto a normal sRGB monitor, where most spectral colors simply cannot be reproduced. Every mapping is a compromise between physical accuracy, human perception, and making neighboring wavelengths distinguishable.
If you download the images and zoom in, you can see the wavelengths and RGB hex values.
I am a UI/product designer and, for a stretch of time, I developed an obsession with color spaces and using the math to calculate hues. The HSL sliders never did what I expected, so I set out to understand how we see and interpret color. Here are the 40 Munsell hues x 9 values converted to RGB.
EDIT: Since this is a RGB-based chart, it includes swatches compressed to the sRGB gamut, which goes beyond what most Munsell charts show. Any value with 00 or FF (bolded) for red, green, or blue is compressed and clipped to be viewed on a monitor. This has a glowing effect where out-of-gamut values appear to "hum" on the chart. Also, some italicized hex values are repeated, meaning the compression or rounding of the RGB happens to be identical in sRGB gamut, even though it is a different color viewable in a high-gamut space.
Ever since they shifted 75 over 18 years ago to fit under the 17th Street Bridge, the gap between northbound and southbound has been just unused concrete. One idea they had some time back was a HOV exit to a new 15th Street bridge. And of course talk of interstate lids.
Saw some recent drone footage, and the gap is looking real run down. Are they digging it up or is that just mud from the rain? Not that traffic is beautiful, but it is an often viewed angle of the city. Will they ever do anything to this eyesore?
I have just ended a 12-month contract and am putting myself out there again. Please help me nitpick my resume. If you like, you can compare to a previous version. Please don't contact me offering resume-writing services.
Don't panic. Grab your phone and start filming. The power of positive thinking can be transformative for your team.