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I have recently revamped my portfolio. I am still working on it. A designer asking for help from another designer. Can you guys take a look and give me any constructive feedback to make it more valuable?
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Folio is a player skin I designed for my portfolio, where the videos are case studies of how I work. I wanted it to read like a page from a design monograph: the video is the plate, and the controls are its caption.
The controls are in an ink caption plate at the bottom of the frame. Its running head shows the chapter that's playing, with the numeral in small caps and the name in Instrument Serif italic, and the current time is set large next to it. The seek bar is drawn as a ruler, split into chapters with fine tick marks, and the thumb is a bookmark bar instead of a dot. There's also a chapters menu that works like a contents page, so you can jump straight to a section of the case study.
The colours and type come from awolesigideon.com: cream, ink, a gold accent, Instrument Sans, and Instrument Serif. The plate is solid enough to stay readable over the bright cream scenes and the dark scenes in the showreel, and every control has the same gold focus ring with an ink halo. The icons are a set I drew for the skin on one 24px grid with a 1.5px stroke. On a phone, the seek buttons and picture-in-picture drop out and the touch targets grow to 44px, and the motion collapses when reduced motion is turned on.
The skin is live on my portfolio at awolesigideon.com/showreel, where it plays my showreel from Mux.
Like a lot of designers, I find my portfolio one of the hardest projects. There's no deadline, and it can always get better. Anyway, I think I'm happy with this one for a while.
Take a look:
davidguba.com
portfolio looks sharp
Most of the websites I've designed were built by someone else.
Now I build the ones I design, and I see how many decisions happen after the design file is done.
I wrote about what changes when one person designs and builds the site, and when that stops working: a product with a backend and user accounts needs a team. At the end there are four questions to help you choose a setup for your own project.
I'm usually the one building other people's designs, and yes, half the decisions happen after the Figma is "done" 😄