Since 2021, I teach Portfolio Design at IED Barcelona, helping students turn their work into a clear, intentional, and professional narrative.

I focus on teaching students how to think, decide, and communicate as designers. Together, we work on defining a point of view, translating design principles into concrete visual decisions and defining a unique proposal that clearly represents who they are and how they approach design.

Throughout the course, students learn to treat their portfolio as a real digital product: designing for the user, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, responsiveness, and coherence across content, layout, and interaction. Equal importance is given to storytelling, execution, and presentation, both online and in person.

The goal is simple but demanding: to help students move away from student-looking work and build portfolios that feel credible and deliberate, and that frame them as ready for the professional world.

Design teaching

I place a strong emphasis on the quality of the teaching materials. They are organised as a structured framework that takes students from self-reflection to final execution, covering storytelling, design principles, information architecture, layout, typography, hierarchy, and usability.

The content blends conceptual thinking with practical guidance, using clear examples, comparisons, and checklists to help students understand not just what to do, but why. This allows students with very different styles and knowledge of digital product design to work within the same framework while producing highly personal outcomes.

This approach ensures consistency across the course while allowing each student to develop a distinct voice and outcome. The goal is not uniformity, but clarity, coherence, and professional credibility.