I've been having a web portfolio on Squarespace and a presentation for interviews on figma for years. I'm thinking of revamping the Figma portfolio entirely and abandoning my website. Any caveat or downfall i should know in advance?
Meh, I ONLY use a Figma deck now for portfolio and presentations. It works fine.
Good luck trying to land a job. Anytime someone adds a link to a pdf or deck for their portfolio, it’s almost an instant reject. Having a website is the bare minimum IMO and in a tough market that’s saturated with talent, you’re throwing an opportunity away over convenience.
Figma only is a bad idea. Not super accessible, responsive and can take a long time to load.
Figma is fine. Bc depending on your level, you want to show outstanding visual design, storytelling, the business side, etc. Smart interviewers and recruiters know that the best designers don’t have time for an updated portfolio with lots of fluff. They want to see real shipped work and your impact, and how you tell that story.
Figma is not responsive. It does not work well on many screen sizes and not at all on mobile. It is completely inaccessible for any one who may be using web accessibility features like color contrast or text size increase. You have to password protect the whole thing instead of individual pages. And can be clunky and unresponsive. Managing it is a huge pain in the ass because of so many prototype links. You still need to make a slide deck style version in figma so you aren’t even combining it into one step unless you’re using the slides as your portfolio… Overall it is a bad idea. Figma was never intended to be used as an actual production website or a deck creator, so you end up giving up lots of great features (like presentation notes and timers). Some people have success with it but I have never reviewed a portfolio on figma that didn’t frustrate me.
Good point! Thanks.