So, I applied for a job a Lego as a Senior Creative Technologist. I don’t want a new job, but the role seemed so amazing, I could not, not apply! It involved building a “visual portfolio”, for which I had a lot of fun creating. Sparking a load of creativity and motivation in me to rekindle a load of tech and creative projects I had put on the back-burner. TL;DR I did not get the job, but it gave me some great material in which to update my work portfolio, and has really fired my imagination.
Why I applied for the role
Yep, I’m very happy with my current role. But! The job description was so good. A friend had seen the role, and sent me the job spec, it just sounded great – merging physical and digital prototypes with Artificial Intelligence and new technologies, with Lego, it sounded right up my street. It was that the role sounded so interesting, and that it was so congruent with what I can do that it motivated me to drop everything and apply.
Building the visual portfolio
Part of the application process involved building a “visual portfolio”.
Download my visual portfolio here.
I designed it in Figma, pulling together a number of use cases / examples of my work, narrating each, and bringing each to life with photos and imagery. It took a while to pull together the images, but it was a great trip down memory lane finding old project documents and putting this together.
What I did not realise is that the limit for Lego application file uploads was 5MB, and trying to squeeze 20MB into 5MB proved quite tricky. I had to compress the images, compress the PDF, and eventually drop the back and front pages, and most of the examples, which I was quite sad about, considering the amount of effort I had put into the visual portfolio!
Rekindling my passion
It has sparked my imagination and given me a big reminder of what I can do. It’s already spurred me on to create a number of new projects for the next few months around creativity, and idea generation.
Not getting the job
Sadly I didn’t get the job, but I was impressed that Lego recruitment kept me in the loop, and gave me a polite email to say they would not be moving forward with my application. Yes I’m sad about that, but really happy that I created the assets that I did as part of the process.
Updating my portfolio
Kevin Gordon Tech Consulting Home Page
It gave me some great material for updating my portfolio website here: https://www.kevingordon.org.uk/tech/portfolio/ and gave me some inspiration for updating my homepage to contain a better user journey, and more useful / insightful content. Here: https://www.kevingordon.org.uk/tech/ – I noticed via the analytics that most people enter and leave on the homepage, so that it did not contain much was an issue. I’m now monitoring its behaviour with Hotjar to see how further I can develop and optimise the page. I looked at home I could generate extra traffic to the webpage, and explored some Google paid ads, which estimated £5 per click – which is a huge amount, so I backtracked pretty rapidly from that idea, lol.
What’s next?
I hope to blog about some of my creative tech projects over the next few months – I have a hardware gaming device in the works, and a experimental car parking demo in the works based on the work I did at Worldpay. With some tactical use of AI, it will hopefully speed these projects up.
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