Publish your first project on Behance: 6 steps to publish a professional project

Behance is the leading platform for publishing designers' work. To ensure the success of your project, it is essential that it appears in a sequential and organized manner to stand out among other projects.

In this blog, I will share with you 6 essential steps for publishing a successful and attractive project.

1. Choosing the Right Project

You must choose the right project on Behance, and it is important to know, dear reader, that we do not share all the projects we design or photograph, but rather we choose the published projects carefully.

Ask yourself the following questions:

• Has the project been applied on the ground?

• Is this project my best work?

• Is the project completely finished or are there still future additions?

Always make sure to determine the type of projects displayed according to the future direction you are seeking. Even if you master many skills, remember to specialize in a specific department such as: social media ad design, visual identity design, web design, etc.

Ultimately, the viewer seeks to see a specific thing and your creativity in it, and publishing other projects may be distracting to the essence of the personal identity that expresses you!

2. Arrange content in a sequential manner

Divide the project into parts or stages that clarify each step. Make sure to use subheadings to clarify details further.

3. Use high quality images

Since we are talking about visual projects, it is important that these projects are pleasing to the eye, clear, and of high quality.

There is no harm in adding some live shots of the project after execution; indeed, this may increase the credibility of your project and show that your projects are successful and live in reality.

4. Use mockups

As we mentioned in the previous point, live shots increase the credibility of your project. However, sometimes we do not have this option, so we resort to using mockups to add some life and realism to the project.

5. Choose the description and cover carefully

After all stages of preparation are completed, we must provide a full and comprehensive explanation to the recipient, and make sure to fill in all fields (such as titles, explanation, project and team details).

Choose the cover that represents the project carefully, and remember that the viewer sees the outer cover first, and as we say: "A book can be judged by its cover."

6. Post-publishing

We are ready, but wait! After publishing the project, it is important to follow up on and interact with people's comments. Make sure to develop the project from time to time, and keep up with changes that may occur in the future.