👉🏽 I built this website as part of a web exploration series I'm starting in collaboration with designers. It is basically a translation of Korty EO's (a Youtuber/content creator in Lagos, Nigeria) amazing persona and work into a digital experience. I worked on it with a UI and motion designer (names and handles in the credits section ), while I handled art direction and development.
✅ Goals:
To build a Web Portfolio that will:
🏷 Translate Korty's life and work into a meaningful digital experience.
🏷 Communicate her experiences in the most visually exciting way possible.
🏷 Show off a gallery of her images with motion.
🧱Challenge:
👨🏽💻 Art direction and curating ideas/mood boards from basically no reference point.
💪🏼 Solution:
Created a notion document with the designer - Isaac Fayemi and started filling it with random ideas we thought captured the essence of Korty's brand. Moved on from there to thinking about typography, layout, hierarchy, and motion design.
👨🏽💻 Tech stack:
Design & UI - FIGMA
Project management - Notion.
Coding: JS, CSS, HTML, Nuxtjs, Greensock, GitHub.
📚 Takeaways/Thing I learned:
Static side generation and image prefetching for better user experience (Lighthouse performance score of 99%).
I loved the idea of horizontal scrolling content and galleries, as well as page transitions.