this website
is also in
the portfolio.*
*very meta. stay with me.
the old site
said what i did.
it didn't show
how i think.
My old portfolio technically worked. The projects were there. The experience was there. The words were definitely there.
But it felt more like a résumé with a URL than a reflection of the way I actually approach content.
I wanted the redesign itself to become evidence: of how I organize information, write for the web, build visual systems and use interaction to give content a point of view.
curated chaos.*
*there is, unfortunately, a system behind the chaos.
calm at rest.
chaos on hover.
because pretty
doesn't fix
confusing.
The redesign wasn't just visual. I reorganized the portfolio around workplaces first, then let individual projects live underneath them.
That created a simpler story: where I worked, what I made there and how my thinking evolved along the way.
<a class="project" href="/work">
<h2>make it useful</h2>
<p>then make it interesting.</p>
</a>
.project:hover {
background: personality;
transform: slightly-weird;
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.chaos {
still: responsive;
}
}
i fired my
corporate narrator.
“My expertise demonstrates my ability to create impactful, user-centered content solutions across diverse industries.”
technically a sentence.“things i made because no one asked me to.”
sounds considerably more like me.show, don't list
If I say I understand web design, the website should probably demonstrate web design.
make clicking worth it
Interaction isn't decoration. It should reveal something, orient someone or make exploring feel rewarding.
systems make weird work
The strange bits only feel intentional because typography, spacing and structure stay consistent underneath them.
sound like a person
A portfolio doesn't need to narrate your résumé back to the person who just read it.
the portfolio stopped being somewhere i put my work and became part of the work.