A UX designer I know is trying to make a portfolio but has a couple of issues with how to display their work. They work at a reputable government consultancy on a very large public user facing app. They feel that they don’t have a full enough UX process to make convincing case studies. Their org doesn’t give them the chance to do user research or experimentation, it’s very business requirement driven. The process is basically to spend time with business discussing requirements and finding ideal layouts and feature sets, then making high fidelity mock ups. Also communicating with stakeholders and presenting features frequently. They’re interested in applying to FAANG/unicorns and their portfolio needs to shine. Theyre getting good experience, taking ownership of services used by millions of people. Anyone have any good ideas or examples of people making great case studies or other kinds of portfolio presentations under constraints like this?
They can present their work as is and just indicate that the lack of user access was a constraint. They should focus on demonstrating how they made decisions based on the information that they had and also call out moments where they sought out additional information or data that wasn’t handed to them. Examples of how they tried to push the design beyond their constraints.