New Portfolio Site Crit
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- mandomafioso
Just wrapped my new portfolio site. It's been probably 7 years since I've had a new site so it seemed about time. I used webflow to build. Good tool for those of us who aren't amazing with CSS.
What do you think? Would you hire me? Feedback welcome.
- oey0
+1
in the site I like the fell and how it rolls
I like the colors and the simplicity
not sure about your illustration, if you allow me, I feel it falls a bit out of the overall look
the Git icon could be a bit more to the right ;-)hecked your work, it seems elaborated but it's way out of my knowledge to say anything.
- Thanks. Yeah I've been back and forth with the illo. Might try the original image.mandomafioso
- noRGB-1
I would probably fix the FOUC issue: https://www.google.com/search?q=…
- I would stop the scroll at the colophon. Scrolling past that is weird.noRGB
- I think the Viking project is the most interesting, and if it were my portfolio, I would make that the first project shown.noRGB
- Hmm, fouc... I'll have to do some research. It's hosted and built with webflow, I'll see if others have been able to solve the problem.mandomafioso
- nuggler0
Going by the photo, you're too temperamental, we can't work together. Any relation to Boris?
Lay off the cheeseburgers. Bad for the planet.
Anyway, sure, the site seems professional. Maybe you could have more pretty pictures of product design up front; it seemed a bit dry and text heavy to me.- Maybe I should have smiled more? :) Grandfather seemed to think we were related to Boris.mandomafioso
- docpoz-5
Are you a designer or a writer?
Show me functioning concepts, starting with your site.
- perhaps more animationdocpoz
- I agree. Going for the 'thought leader' angle.mandomafioso
- Projectile6
The site design is great, though I scrolled to the bottom and thought "ok but where's the work?" Maybe put a highlight or some thumbnails that link to the work page
- Hayzilla0
Well done. Always hard doing this sort of thing for yourself.
I think 2 more work samples would be nice at least and the links to work could do with some thumbnails. The brighter and more colourful the better. Should lift the site a bit.
- Nairn0
The only thing I have any dislike for is the choice of generic stockphoto image for the blog. I suppose also the use of 'product designer' but that's a personal grumble, apparently totally outdated in this day and age.
It's a small detail, but for some reason I have a minor chub for your thickening line mouseover things.
- ha, cheers. Yeah I want to work on product, not general ux/ui web work.mandomafioso
- matski2
I don't want to be hard on you Michael, having read your "About" page, the first thing you say about yourself is "14 years experience has taught me to: Communicate more effectively".
Well, I no idea what you do... your homepage doesn't show what you do or any examples of what you've done. Your homepage is your shop window - sell yourself, and sell it hard! If I'm hungry and fancy a burger (cheese of course), and walk down the street, if there is no pictures of tasty burgers or something in the shop window to entice me in, then I'm gone, onto the next place. People don't like reading through lots of info, and having to dig to find stuff. You only have a few seconds to catch their attention.
From what I understand, you are a UX consultant, but I've not seen that mentioned anywhere on your site. This should be front and center on your homepage, along with well executed, and eye catching samples of your work.
The lack or examples of work from someone with 14 years experience, and only three articles in your blog is not good either. You have video's of things you worked on, and hide them down the page - these should be near the top, as they are dynamic. I suggest you make use of some tasty design resources on Graphic Burger...
- yuekit0
First thing that jumps out at me are grammar/punctuation errors in the intro text. You shouldn't have a comma before product designer for instance. The random capitalization is also a bit strange...either capitalize all the major words or just the first one.
- And same with the Method section below...maybe get a copywriter to review for you.yuekit
- robotron3k1
"Hi, I’m Michael. A process-guided, User-focused, Passionate, Product designer. (And cheeseburger aficionado.)"
I feel like your site is like your first sentence, all over the map and with unnecessary initial caps.
Clean this site up, remove all unnecessary content until you have only your work samples and contact page.
This is all you need, make it lean and mean.
I feel the rest is distracting.
Remove your photo completely and rewrite the first sentence to read, "hello, my name is Michael, I design applications and do UX" then a button to your work samples.
Hope this helps...
- Another way to think about it is there should be no foreplay in portfolios, you need to get right to it.robotron3k
- a rare occasion where I agree with robo, he's 100% right.fadein11
- Aye, as much of a sexist flid as he can be on here sometimes, robo's good at teh feedbacks.Nairn
- mandomafioso2
Cheers. Thanks for taking the time. Fair points all. Planning to create some gifs and more videos of screens in action. I'll work on making it leaner and meaner.
- < First thing to do is research, see what your peers are doing. This will help...matski
- https://www.format.c…matski
- robotron3k1
Great adjustments Michael, looks tight!
- Thank you. Still a work in progress but the critique here helped me hone it down.mandomafioso