Learning aim A: Design a digital portfolio
Design Specification

Your Design Specification should include information about your Portfolio such as who your portfolio is aimed at and what its purpose is. You should tailor the portfolio to showcase your skills and achievements, and produce an original design to set your application apart from those of the other people who apply. You will also need to consider your colour scheme (background and font size/style/colour) and the layout.

Consider what your potential employer will be looking for when viewing your portfolio and bear these in mind when designing your portfolio. The portfolio must include work from all your completed units in the course and you will therefore need a page for Animation and Digital Graphics.

Activity 1

Download the Design Specification and complete all sections but pay particular attention to the AUDIENCE and PURPOSE sections.

You are required to complete EIGHT pages, these will be:

  • Home Page (Index - introduction to portfolio)
  • My Area (Where you live (village, town, county, Wales. What is there?)
  • Work Experience (Work placement, year 10 work experience, jobs)
  • Classwork (Items of classwork done for other subjects)
  • About Me (Your family, hobbies and interests, pets, music, anything else)
  • My Options (Your four options inc Welsh Bac)
  • Graphics (Recycle with Michael work)
  • Animation (Life and Health work)

To achieve the criteria covered by the tasks in this section (Learning aim A: Design a digital portfolio), you must show that you are able to:

  • 2A.P1 Describe the audience and purpose for the design of a digital portfolio.
  • 2A.P2 Produce designs for a digital portfolio, including:
    ● a timeline for the project
    ● a storyboard of the layout and content of pages
    ● a structure chart indicating navigation routes
    ● a list of ready-made assets to be used, including sources.
  • 2A.M1 Produce detailed designs for a digital portfolio, including:
    ● alternative solutions
    ● detailed storyboard of the layout and content of pages
    ● a detailed structure chart with complete navigation routes
    ● fully referenced sources for the readymade assets.
  • 2A.D1 Justify the final design decisions, explaining how the digital portfolio will:
    ● fulfil the stated purpose
    ● meet the needs of the audience.

If you have not achieved the Level 2 criteria, your work will be assessed to determine if the following Level 1 criteria have been met. To achieve the Level 1 criteria, you must show that you are able to:

  • 1A.1 Identify the audience and purpose for the design of a digital portfolio.
  • 1A.2 Produce designs for a digital portfolio, with guidance, including:
    ● outline storyboards of the layout and content
    ● a list of ready-made assets to be used.