The Portfolio
Counsellor

Design Career Counselling
Portfolio Preparation
How do I go about it?

Choosing a design career? 

The Portfolio Counselling is for Visual, Product, Interior, UX Designers & Architects, who want to groom their career profile & portfolio up to professional design industry standards.

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Design Career Counselling

Understanding the volition to choose the right career and build SOP for admissions.

Portfolio Preparation

Individual coaching
for building a portfolio website to advance UX & presentation skills.

Professional Practice

Design Workshop for non-designers & designers in a professional setup.

Design Career
Counselling

In this one on one counselling program, I will help you shortlist courses based on your design aptitude. Offer written edits on your Statement of Purpose.

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Portfolio
Preparation

In this program, I will help you articulate your ideas, give written feedback, offer developmental editing on content, and build clear layouts to publish on web.

I will help you consider ways to take your portfolio to the next level, so that you feel confident, about the work you have spent much time & energy into.

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Everyday we see marvellous mockups, shots and portfolios on Dribbble or Behance. However, it is not the attractive visual that convinces stakeholder to accept the design. The most important skill for a designer is to be able to articulate decisions made during the design process.
Design graduates often turn their strong ideas into ineffective portfolios as they lack articulation skills.
- As a Portfolio Counsellor, I help them stay with their core idea, teach how to concise their communication with clear layouts.
"If you win, I win and as a result, we become a better design industry."

Irfana Biviji
Portfolio Counsellor & UI UX Designer

Some of the Universities our students have got admissions into.

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Irfana is awesome! Her work already speaks volumes about her skill but as a person, she is just heartwarming. I was clueless. It is because of her that I am where I am and I can never thank her enough for it.

Shreya Saraf

Product Designer, Microsoft

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Applying for Master in Design, surely needs a proper guidance, especially while building the portfolio. Irfana was exactly the perfect guide I was searching for.

Pranav Gawde, Product Designer, MTu Delft

I needed guidance by someone who also understands design and presentation. Irfana was the perfect consultant, having helped me with selection of appropriate projects, all the layouts, the text and overall presentation, to create an aesthetic that represented me. Her help with the CV was amazing. Being my first professional résumé, she helped me add in creating a layout that was brief and articulate yet detailed for a design student.

Jaynee Karia, Architect, Domus Academy

Being an architectural student, we tend to get attached to our work and start to put unnecessary things in our portfolio. Irfana taught me who to look at your portfolio from a professional perspective which was very helpful. She went about the whole process constructively from helping in making my own logo to typography. Will surely recommend for designing your professional profile and portfolio 😄

Kunal Chhatlani, Architect

She's an excellent counsellor and guide. For my portfolio requirement she gave me precise solution as to what admission committee is looking for. I highly recommend Irfana for counselling.

Richa Maru, Architect

Professional Practice
Workshop

  • Design Process
  • Presentation skills
  • Resume Tips
  • Mock Interviews

I have been a UI Design Jury, Professional Practice Speaker at école intuit.lab & Visiting Design Faculty at IIDE.  

I’ve delivered lectures and webinars on topics like Design Principles, Portfolio Formulas and Design Induction.

Some of the institutes I have given webinars & workshops

I rarely come across real talents who stand out like Irfana. I had the pleasure of inviting her several times at école intuit.lab for juries & workshops, I was impressed by her ability to guide students effortlessly.
I will definitely invite her again in a very near future.

Yan Garin

Country Head, ecole intuit lab

FAQS

Design Career Counselling helps the students. to understand their aptitude as a designer. It also helps to understand the true volition to work, which in turn sets the right attitude to work.

Unfortunately, most people’s portfolios are not easy to skim or scan. Recruiters and hiring managers don’t have time to read tons of text. 

Using our portfolio templates for Keynote, PPT, or Elementor, you will save a TON of time and ensure your portfolio stands out. 

Architects, Interior Designers, Graphic Designers, Fashion Designers, Product Designers, Animators, UX Designers & Researchers, UI Designers, Engineers from Non Design Background, Visualisers, Textile Designers, or Any Student from a Non Design background who to make a portfolio online or on PDF.

It depends on the student, how ready is their portfolio before they starts their journey to put it online. It can range from 3 to 12 weeks.

The Portfolio can be published online on a secured AWS Hosting with WordPress and Elementor platforms. We have an in-house Dev Ops Engineer, who advises and sets up, which helps the student edit the portfolio independently. 

Basics of Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator, if they know Adobe Xd or Figma it is a plus point.

Due to Covid, in person meetings have been stopped. Instead Recurring Google Meet Online Sessions are scheduled and planned in advance for Weekends between 2pm to 7pm.

A Google Slide PPT will be shared to set the agenda of the Career Counselling & Portfolio Building

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Hello! I’m Irfana Biviji, a UX & UI Designer, based in Mumbai. Currently I design digital products for Finance Sectors.
I have 18+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in TV, Advertising & Print in Ogilvy, Lowe & Star Sports. I have graduated with BA Honours in Illustration from Falmouth University, UK, as a merit scholar, and been featured in BBC for Gold award, given by The Association of Illustrators.

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