I wanted my portfolio to have a simple and elegant feel to it. Yet I wanted to incorporate fun and interesting colors to showcase my personality. I choose to do everything by hand and not use a templet; I was able to put what bring my idea in my head to life! It was a frustrating yet satisfying assignment. I enjoyed being able to organize my work and assignments. I added a few effects to the cover and about me page to “spice” things up however I kept the pages with work on the simple since I wanted the work to be the main center of attention. I really like a sense of balance and cohesion in my life and I wanted to recreate and express that in this portfolio by adding a pink strip that is repeated and used throughout the portfolio to feature brief descriptions to help tie the entire portfolio together. In addition, the leaf background is used to again add a sense of cohesion. I added hyperlinks to my table of contents so that viewers would be able to negotiate with ease throughout the document. I also added interactive buttons to add a fun and interactive element for viewers as well. I figured flipping through countless pages could be boring so adding something to involve the viewers would bring the excitement level up. I choose to use basic arrows as my navigation to keep it simple, professional, and not take away from the work. I hardest part of this assignment was learning how to add in buttons and how to actually download this document. I would watch countless tutorials to figure out how to have the pdf viewable and still interactive. I would say those hours were worth it since I love how it turned out!
Hours to complete: 6
Hours watching tutorials: 2.5 haha
