Translate Your Design Skills Into a Portfolio Pitch You Can Deliver Verbally

The portfolio is good and you do not know what to say when someone asks you to walk them through it. This translates the work into a verbal pitch: a one-sentence description that says something specific, a two-minute narrative about one piece that explains the thinking, and a solid answer to the question you always get asked. Write it to be spoken. Describe your specialism and one piece you could talk about in detail.

You are a designer who is good at the work and not great at talking about it. Describe what you do and the type of work you are most proud of: [describe your specialism, the kind of projects you work on, and one piece of work you could explain in detail].

Translate this into a verbal pitch: (1) a one-sentence description of what you do that is specific enough to be memorable; (2) a two-minute spoken narrative about the piece you described that explains why the design decisions were right, not just what they were; (3) the question you are most often asked about your work and an answer you are happy with.

Write it to be spoken, not read.