Behance

Behance is the Adobe-owned portfolio platform for creative professionals, founded in 2006 by Scott Belsky and Matias Corea. Acquired by Adobe in 2012 for $150M, it's now the default portfolio hosting destination for designers, illustrators, photographers, and motion artists worldwide — with 50M+ creative members. If you're a designer looking for inspiration, work, or to publish your own portfolio, Behance is one of the three places you go (alongside Dribbble and Awwwards). What makes Behance different from Dribbble (the obvious comparison) is the depth of work. Dribbble grew up as a 'small shots' platform — 400x300 design teasers, animated GIFs, eye-candy. Behance favours full case studies: a single project might include 20 images, a write-up, process documentation, and outcomes. This makes Behance more useful for professional portfolio review (recruiters, clients) and less useful for quick design inspiration scrolling. The core feature set: • **Project portfolios** — full case-study format with images, videos, process docs, outcomes. The native format encourages depth. • **Creative discovery** — browse by category (UI/UX, branding, illustration, photography, motion, etc.), country, color, or trending • **Job board** — design-specific jobs from Apple, Nike, Spotify, etc. Filterable by remote/onsite, role, experience • **Live streams** — designers stream their work-in-progress; you can watch concepts develop in real-time • **Adobe Creative Cloud integration** — publish directly from Photoshop/Illustrator/XD, sync portfolio with Creative Cloud • **Behance Pro Site** — free portfolio website at adobeportfolio.com or your custom domain (included with any paid Adobe CC subscription) • **Galleries** — curators surface notable work by category; getting featured drives meaningful traffic • **Comments + appreciations** — community engagement on each project For designers + founders the use cases: • **Designer portfolio hosting** — primary portfolio platform for many designers; free with any Adobe CC subscription gives you a free Pro Site • **Finding designers for hire** — search the platform by skill + location + recent work. Many designers list rates and availability. • **Design inspiration before a project kick-off** — browse high-quality case studies in a category before designing • **Showcasing client work** — full case studies build trust with prospective clients more than single 'shot' samples • **Recruiting designers** — Adobe Talent (Behance's job board) is a primary channel for design hiring at premium brands The pricing is unusual: Behance itself is free to use, but is fundamentally a Creative Cloud subscriber acquisition channel for Adobe. Posting projects, browsing, and applying to jobs are all free. The Behance Pro Site (custom-domain portfolio website) is included with any Adobe Creative Cloud subscription — even the cheapest single-app plan ($20/month). For non-Adobe users, Pro Site is unavailable; you stick with the standard Behance.net profile. Where Behance wins clearly: deep-case-study format is better for serious portfolio review than Dribbble's shot teasers, Adobe ownership means tight integration with the Creative Cloud workflow most designers already use, the job board has access to premium brands that don't post on LinkedIn, Pro Sites are a real benefit bundled with the CC subscription you're probably already paying for. Where it loses: less visual immediacy than Dribbble for inspiration scrolling, the design quality bar isn't as curated as Awwwards or Dribbble at the top end, Adobe's pace of innovation is slow and the feed algorithm increasingly surfaces sponsored/promoted content, smaller community engagement than Instagram for some categories (illustration especially has migrated to Instagram). My take: Behance is the right portfolio platform if you (a) already pay for Adobe Creative Cloud, (b) want to showcase deep case studies not just shots, or (c) are hiring designers and want access to talent that doesn't post on LinkedIn. Dribbble remains better for design inspiration and quick portfolio teasers. Awwwards is better for elite-tier web design. Most senior designers maintain presence on at least Behance + Dribbble. If you're starting your portfolio today and already use Adobe, Behance is the obvious first stop.