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> Also, many great designers don't have portfolios. That's because they're busy doing real work. Ask to see real work.

A great designer will always have a portfolio...its essentially their CV. Asking to see real work is quite difficult if that work is proprietary.

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By portfolio, I mean a fancy, well-manicured site that shows static mocks. I'd rather see a real product. Coincidentally, the two people I've given offers to in the past month were the only two we interviewed who didn't have portfolio sites.

If they are trained designers, they'll have portfolios with some amount of intermediate work, not just static websites, but maybe wireframes, graphic design output, storyboards, and so on.

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