Responsive Website
Full disclosure that Rob is my husband, and I wanted to help him out with his professional brand. Rob is an indie game programmer who's also a thoughtful game UI/UX designer, and recently a 3D-renderer and character creator. (And I'm not just saying this because I'm his wife, but he's crushing it!) He had already set up his own website but it wasn't really working for him, which is something I knew I could help him with.
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Process
The most important part of a portfolio site is how you present your projects, and I wanted it to be super engaging and a pleasant experience on its own. I started out with paper sketches to figure out how to present his individual project pieces, because my goal was to fill the screen with an individual project when viewed on a computer screen. I needed to figure out the most important information to display, and how to make it all fit without it feeling overwhelming, and then I needed to make it work.
In thinking about how this content would display on a mobile screen, I split the content into a "summary view" and a "gallery view" and made the content toggleable so users would scroll through the most concise summary of content first and could toggle into more specific details after.
Once I had a functional skeleton built, I started designing the page in Figma to get the details right. I figured out colors, fonts, and started working on illustrations.
In thinking about how this content would display on a mobile screen, I split the content into a "summary view" and a "gallery view" and made the content toggleable so users would scroll through the most concise summary of content first and could toggle into more specific details after.
Once I had a functional skeleton built, I started designing the page in Figma to get the details right. I figured out colors, fonts, and started working on illustrations.
Illustrations
Rob is selling himself as a programmer here, but because the industry is so big and it can be challenging to find a programmer with soft-skills, I wanted to use illustrations to show a bit more personality. I wanted the design of the site itself to feel like it belongs in the cozy game genre itself, and I felt like some cute little doodle-y drawings would lend itself well.
