Making room for
a shared direction.
I introduced a review process to help teams decide which patterns belonged in a shared system.
My contribution: direction and decisions.
The team’s contribution: the component library.
Osnara / The story behind your work
Find the story
behind your work.
Build a story from your project notes for your portfolio or next interview. Keep the sources, review the details and make it your own.
Start with what you have. Your drafts stay private until you choose to share.
Project notes
The details worth keeping.
Your added context
The part only you know.
Your work, connectedA story you can
Sources you can revisit. Words you can edit.
A story you can
come back to.
Sources you can revisit. Words you can edit.From the work to the story
Keep the work.
Find the words.
Your files can show what happened. Add the decisions, context and contributions that help explain it.
From scattered detailsTo a story you can use
Project notes
Teams kept rebuilding the same patterns.
Your decision
“I introduced a shared review process.”
Team contribution
The design team built the component library.
Making room for
Start with your notes.
Add notes, files or a link you’re allowed to use. A few details are enough to start.
The part your files leave out.
Type or dictate the decisions, the difficult bits and who did what.
Keep a story you can use.
Check the sources, edit your draft and choose what you want to share.
Capture. Explain. Prepare.
Your work.
More than one way in.
Keep a detail while it’s fresh, explain a project you’ve finished, or choose work for a role. Try the example that fits where you are.
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Keep the details
Capture your work before you forget it.
Keep notes, screenshots and decisions as you go. You can shape the story when you need it.
Start small. Come back to it.
Making your contribution clear
Turn a project into a clear story.
Remember the decisions you made alongside the work your team built. Give both their place in the story.
Your decisions. The team’s work.
Thinking about what’s next
Choose your strongest work for a role.
Look back through your projects and choose the work that helps explain what you could bring to a role.
Choose the work you want to lead with.
Why I’m building Osnara
I had plenty of screens.
Explaining the work was harder.
I wanted somewhere to keep my project notes and stories together, so I could find them again without starting another chat from scratch.
Christian LinaresFounder, OsnaraStart with work you know