Product Designer Portfolio Review

How it works

1. 01

   Give it the URL

   Point the skill at the portfolio you want reviewed. Add a target role, and a password if the site is protected.

2. 02

   It reads like a hiring reviewer

   Home, work list, the first project and the one closest to your target role, About and contact. A first scan of about 30 seconds, then a careful pass.

3. 03

   You get a scored report

   Strengths, mistakes, red flags and up to five prioritised fixes, each tied to something on the site.

The score

Out of 100. Weights are this skill's own, informed by UXfolio 2026 rankings. A broken link, or a locked one with no password, scores 0. Each confirmed red flag costs 3 points.

What it judges

Checks follow UXfolio's State of UX Portfolios 2026chapters: First 30 seconds, Format and access, Finding the right project, Inside a case study, NDA work and AI use. The review starts with a first scan of about 30 seconds, then goes deeper. Figures are cited as given.

It only judges what is on the page. Seniority comes from scope and decisions, not polish. A famous client is not proof of quality, and style alone is not proof of AI.

Evidence tags

• Rendered

  Seen on the live page in a browser.

• Source

  Read in the HTML, metadata or text, but not seen rendered.

• Unverified

  Likely but unconfirmed. Listed under Open checks. Never a red flag.

Browser

Use it in Claude.ai

No terminal. Upload the skill in Claude.ai, then review a portfolio in chat. Built for designers who would rather click than type install commands.

1. 01

   Get the skill folder

   Open the pd-portfolio-review folder on GitHub. Download the repo ZIP, then keep only that folder. Zip the folder itself, so the archive opens to a pd-portfolio-review folder with SKILL.md inside.

2. 02

   Turn on code execution in Claude.ai

   Go to Settings > Capabilities and enable Code execution and file creation. Skills need this on.

3. 03

   Upload the ZIP

   Open Customize > Skills, click +, then Create skill and Upload a skill. Choose your ZIP file. Toggle pd-portfolio-review on when it appears.

4. 04

   Ask for a review

   Start a chat and paste something like “Review this portfolio: https://yoursite.com”, adding a target role if you have one. Claude should pick up the skill and review the site like a hiring reviewer.

See Anthropic's guide on using skills in Claude.

Evals

Twenty-seven cases adapted from Karl Koch's hiring-manager-bar. They cover access failures, linked credits, password gates and case studies that only load on hover.

Run them by hand: open a case in skills/pd-portfolio-review/evals/, give the skill the request and fixture evidence, then compare the report to what you expect. I haven't automated this yet.

Questions