Free, easy-to-use Learning Design Portfolio Builder Tools

Your Learning Design Portfolio is the key to landing your dream job

Our recent overview of the Learning Experience Designer and Instructional Designer jobs market highlighted a crucial insight: having a compelling portfolio is the top requirement according to hiring managers. A well-crafted portfolio including diverse microlearning examples not only showcases your skills and projects, but also sets you apart in the competitive job market.

In response to this need, we’ve invested some time researching and selecting some of which we found to be the best Portfolio Builder Tools available that are free, efficient, enjoyable and user-friendly, to help you build an outstanding learning design portfolio fast and with ease.

Let’s have a look at some of the best Portfolio Builder tools for Instructional Designers and Learning Experience Designers.

Selection of Learning Design Portfolio Builder Tools

#1 Bento.me

As their sligan states, Bento is a link in bio, but rich and beautiful. Is a personal page to show everything you are and create.

Best of Bento as a Portfolio Builder

Very easy to use and create. It took me just minutes to create a beautiful page, aligned to my brand.
Top area to add your socials
Change the size of the cards and move them around to tell your story
Customize your media titles or images
Choose from a limited but powerful set of media: links, texts, videos, images, maps, sections
Quickly check how it look for desktop and mobile
It will automatically update the link favicon

Ideas to build your Learning Design Portfolio with Bento:

Link articles you have published or that feature you or your work
Link your favourite posts from any of your social networks
Create a grid with links to your previous employers websites. Then, change the descriptions, summarizing on each the role you played
Add links to your favourite personal projects or work examples
Add links to any commercial projects you worked for
Add a section with links to causes you support or websites that reflect your passions and hobbies
Use the text widget to add snippets of feedback provided about you as a professional or work you collaborated on
Use the text widget to share impact metrics about projects you worked on

Link to example: bento.me/lxd

Link to create your Bento

Bento LXD Portfolio:

#2 Dorik

Dorik is an easy-to-use, flexible, and affordable website building platform, which uses Ai to get you started in a site built exactly tailored to your needs.

Best of Dorik as a Portfolio Builder

A web-builder that is easy-to-use, intuitive and amazingly powerful
Use AI to get started! Simply describe what your site is about, the style, the sections you want to include
Regerate the site with AI as many times as you want until finding the perfect fit
Quick actions to redo or undo if you make any mistakes (like regenerating your site once it’s done)
Build an entire website, not just a one-page or section
Create assets with AI, photos, illustrations, backgrounds
Create your sections content with AI or use it to get started
Adjust every single detail: backgrounds, spacing, fonts, colors, borders, etc

Ideas to build your Learning Design Portfolio with Dorik

Create a sleek Digital CV to stand out in job applications
Create an Interactive Timeline and take Hiring Managers through your recent projects, contributions and achievements
Create a mix of CV and porttolio, introducing your self and also featuring some of your best work
Create a process-focused portfolio, sharing details, photos and sketchs on some of the most impactful projects you were involved in
Show your latest microlearning demos with this relaxed, playful cards layout
Use a paralax template to share the story of how you became who you are

Link to example: lxd.dorik.io

Link to create your Dorik

Dorik LXD Portfolio:

#3 Carrd

Carrd is a platform that allows you to build simple, responsive, and free one-page websites for a variety of purposes, with a range of customizable templates.

Best of Carrd as a Portfolio Builder

Easy-to-use, intuitive and powerful tool
Dozens of templates to start from
Customize every detail, as much as you want
Change colors, border-radius, positioning, fonts, sizes, everything!
Use creative background textures
Custom animations for every element
Create up to 3 projects for free
Minimal Carrd branding

Ideas to build your Learning Design Portfolio with Carrd

Create a sleek Digital CV to stand out in job applications
Create an Interactive Timeline and take Hiring Managers through your recent projects, contributions and achievements
Create a mix of CV and porttolio, introducing your self and also featuring some of your best work
Create a process-focused portfolio, sharing details, photos and sketchs on some of the most impactful projects you were involved in
Show your latest microlearning demos with this relaxed, playful cards layout
Use a paralax template to share the story of how you became who you are

Link to example: lxdportfolio.carrd.co

Link to create your Carrd

Carrd LXD Portfolio:

#4 mmm

A tool for those Learning Experience Designers who believe that learning should always feel like play. Mmm, in the creator’s words, is meant to be an internet canvas, a digital medium with the expressive ease of paper.

Best of Mmm as a Portfolio Builder

An intuitive, fun, funky tool which breaks all rules (it even has UX audio)
Minimal configuration with limited settings
Optimised for mixed media. Simply add shapes, images, text, videos, gifs
Embed services too: maps, music, twits
Easily embed any Storyline interaction to make it more interactive
Draw directly on the pages
Minimal branding on your page, their logo seamlessly integrate with your design

Ideas to build your Learning Design Portfolio with mmm

Create a moodboard of your learning design style
Sketch your work journey using previous jobs company logos, photos, texts, stickers, drawn arrows and more
Draw a self-portrait and complement it with stickers, shapes, photos and symbols to share insight into who you are

Link to example: lxd.mmm.page

Link to create your mmm.page

mmm.page doesn’t allow iframing but you can check out the link