Behance for designers: how to publish your first case study

Step 1

Pick a project and outline its story

For your first case study, choose work you can explain from task to result, even if it's a study project. Behance advises showing your best work of the kind you want to keep doing, and, early in your career, personal projects: a few great projects beat many mediocre ones. Before opening the editor, sketch the structure:

• •context: what the product is and who it's for; if it's a study project, say so;
• •task: what problem had to be solved and what the constraints were;
• •process: research, sketches, options you dropped and why;
• •solution: final screens with the key decisions explained;
• •result and takeaways: what came out of it and what you'd do differently.

💡 More on case study structure in Designer portfolio.

Step 2

Prepare images for Behance

In project view Behance displays images 1,400 px wide, and up to 2,800 px when someone clicks an image. Narrower images keep their original size with padding on the sides. Also worth knowing:

• •JPEG is the recommended format; GIF works inside a project but not as a cover;
• •Behance recommends files of 10 MB or less and doesn't accept images over 50 MB;
• •you can't upload a PDF, so export its pages as images;
• •Behance converts CMYK images to RGB, and colors may shift, so export in RGB from the start.

💡 Lay out your case study slides in Figma as 1,400 px wide frames and export them one by one: that makes reordering and editing single parts easy.

Step 3

Build the project in the editor

Log in, click Share Your Work and choose Project. Add images, text blocks and embedded media in the order of your outline. Behance says an average project has 10–15 images broken up with descriptive text and a compelling title. Short text between images is what turns a set of screens into a case study: a sentence or two about what the viewer sees and why you did it that way.

💡 The editor doesn't auto-save. Save the project as a Draft from time to time, especially when you're working with lots of images.

Step 4

Cover, title, Creative Fields and tags

To publish, Behance requires three things: a cover image, a title and at least one Creative Field. Tags and tools are optional, but they're what helps people find your work.

• •cover: Behance displays it at 202 × 158 px, but you must upload at least 808 × 632 px; pick a frame that shows straight away what the project is about;
• •title: be specific: “Doctor appointment app redesign” says more than “UI Project”;
• •Creative Fields: choose the ones that best describe the project, such as UI/UX;
• •tags: up to 10, covering product type, platform and subject; list your tools separately, for example Figma.

💡 Behance search looks at the title, tags, Creative Fields and the creator's name. The description and the text inside the project don't affect search, so put keywords in the title and tags.

Step 5

Publish and tidy up your profile

Before publishing, fill in your profile: Behance suggests starting with at least a photo and a banner, and changing the auto-generated username in your settings. Once published, the project appears on your profile with its own link. Featured galleries are picked by Behance curators for creativity, execution and originality; there's no way to submit work, and paid Behance Pro doesn't affect search ranking.

💡 Save the project as a draft and show it in the community: what's unclear, where people stopped scrolling. Publish after the fixes.