My personal portfolio is a snapshot into my design sense and coding skills. The portfolio should not be a comprehensive view of everything I have to offer, but should show different avenues an interested party could pursue in discussion with me.
For my design I went with a barebones structures using a combination of colours inspired by afro-futuristic science fiction designs. I have been heavily influenced by comic book art with an emphasis on the strong lines and bright colours used in Image & Marvel comics in the late 2000's.
- Mood Board
- Minimum Viable Product
- Inspiration
- Style Guide and Wireframes
- Challenges
- **What Went Well
- Where From Here
- Coding
My Pintrest mood board is made up of images that I dound through looking up Afro-Futurism and then recommendations made by Pintrest based on my saved images.
My pinterest mood board can be found at this link![]
My MVP is a basic website using the Afro-Futurism colour scheme. It is designed to be a supplement for my CV so that employers can find me and easily contact me. In the future I will likely do a full rework to be structured around some saucy.
My tagline is "I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” which is a quote by Thomas Jefferson. I also considered "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." I wnated to include a quote that was based around being a good worker so that employers will think I'm a dedicated employee. And Thomas Jefferson is someone everyone knows who has associations with excellence and achievement.
My primary inspiration for my website was the personal portfolio of Ian Enders. It is a simple, one page design that really catches the eye when you see it. It uses limited content to have more impact with the content available.
My Typography was randomly selected from Google fonts on a whim. I wanted a font that was modern and simple.
I used Figma to do my design and finalise my layout.
The full figma project can be viewed at the following link
My biggest challenge was deciding on a layout. I found that finding inspirations for my design was more difficult than actually figuring stuff out in CSS due to the simplicity of my design. I originally had grandiose plans for how my site would look without the technical skills to back it up.
My original design was going to be heavily reliant on photography which I was unable to take. This was what contributed to my decision to further strip down my design.
One particular challenge was when I tried to do a bottom border line, I accidentally put the attribute values in the wrong order. I figured it out in the end though.
My colour choices and font selection was done quickly and is easy to see on the screen while still being soft on the eyes.
The site that inspired me the most was ianenders.com and in the future I want to take some good photos of myself and do something like this. I envision my portfolio being primarily about showcasing a bit of my character through the use of photography/writing and my github to be used for seeing my technical abilities.
I started coding from the top down based on my design. I did the name and logo first, then the About/Work/Skills, then the form and finally, the icons. My site is exclusively HTML & CSS.