The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Back to feedPost
😍 You deal with the person writing the code. There is no account manager translating what you said into a ticket, no junior picking it up on Friday, and no queue behind three other clients you were never told about.
My background is business administration, with hands-on time at Tata Motors and Niftel Communication — so the first question is what the site has to make happen, not what it should look like. The design follows from that.
The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Trending
retrofuturism
Share your favorite designs from the past exploring the distant future. Or your own take on the aesthetic 🚀
halftone
Dots. Texture. Grain. Let's see your designs using the halftone technique.
Midjourney
Creatives are showing off what they're making with Midjourney.
colorgrade
Video editors sound off: How do you enhance the mood of your video in color grading?
Related posts
Clean & Creative :)
I used to give wrong advice. When someone told me they wanted to move from e-commerce to fintech, I'd say: build a fintech project yourself, put it in your portfolio, use it to show your process.
I was wrong. A case study is never just your thinking. It's the product of everything around it and none of that exists in a self-made project.
→ Every company has its own policy
→ Every business has different rules and conditions
→ Maybe the decision came down to investment
→ Maybe it wasn't the right time
→ Maybe the PM believed the MVP had to ship exactly that way
You can look at a shipped screen and think "I'd have solved it better." But you weren't in the middle of the war.
So a fake fintech project proves almost nothing. It's a solution with no constraints behind it.
What actually transfers between industries isn't the domain. It's the thinking. If you're switching sectors, your portfolio should show:
1️⃣ How you think through a problem
2️⃣ How you handled real challenges and constraints
3️⃣ How you communicated and moved people
That's the core of UX. Not the industry logo at the top of the case study. Highlight that, and it becomes your advantage.
Wish you all the best.