Portfolio Club starts May 27. Matt D Smith is our first guest.
Live expert critiques every Wednesday. AI workflow guidance. A community building alongside you.
This summer we’re helping you get your portfolio in shape in Portfolio Club.
In a recent Substack chat thread, we heard from a lot of folks that they’re stressed out by AI and the job market. People feel behind and unprepared for all that’s changing.
The best way to deal with anxiety is to take action. May 27-July 29, we’ll help you build a portfolio that will present you and your work effectively and create opportunities to learn new skills with AI tools in the creative process.
Here’s how it works:
Critique every Wednesday at 1PM ET on Substack Live Video, Eli and I along with an invited design expert will give feedback on portfolios randomly selected from the #portfolioclub channel in Design Better Slack. What’s working, what to improve, how to tell your story. All sessions will be recorded.
Between calls, share your work in the #portfolioclub Slack channel anytime for peer feedback from the community. Eli and I will be there regularly, as will other mentors in our community.
We’ll also be exploring how to use AI to accelerate your design process without losing your creative voice. I just redesigned my portfolio with Claude Code as my collaborator, and I learned a ton from the experience!
Portfolio Club is open to all paid subscribers. If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, this is a good moment to join. Save 20% on an annual plan.
First Portfolio Club Critique May 27 at 10AM PT/1PM ET with Matt D Smith
Aarron and Matt D Smith will be running the first Portfolio Club Critique next Wednesday May 27 at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Mark your calendar!
Paid subscribers will be invited to the live video feed here on Substack.
Stop worrying about the changing world. Start designing for it.
About Matt D Smith (MDS)
Matt D. Smith (known online as MDS) operates at the intersection of design and AI, with over 20 years of experience leading design for startups and global brands — and creating training used by thousands of designers at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Pentagram, and Figma. He is the creator of the Float Label pattern (now adopted by Apple, Google, and countless companies), designer of Figma plugins Contrast and Flowkit, and creator of FloatPrompt, a text format that turns AI suggestions into AI specifications. He is now building the next generation of AI-focused design education through Shift Nudge, which he is evolving into the modern design school for interface designers and AI-builders.