Discussion on: Portfolio Site

Hey Michael!

First I'd recommend (second time today) that you check material.io/design/
I know it can be boring for people not interested in design, but it will help you curate your own mistakes.

Now with some fast tips:

• Use subtle shadows, those are too much! And be careful with night theme and invert colors, that white glow is a bit disturbing.
• Also be careful with typography. Condensed fonts are not precisely the best option for long paragraphs. They where designed for short impactful headings. So, my recommendation, choose a font pairing (use this tool fontpair.co). If you like that condensed font, cool! but choose another one for long texts to improve readability and the condensed ONLY for headings.
• The jumpy laptop animation is also a bit disturbing, probably a bug?
• I have my doubts about those buttons at the top right corner, why not a classic navbar? I could understand that position if they didn't disapear when you scroll down. I don't know, I think it doesn't work very well. Take this into consideration. We read from left to right, top to down. First thing we see its pure white, then we need to cross the whole screen (in desktop) to see those buttons. Those buttons, also have a very high visual weight. In a canvas, everything close to it's borders gain a lot of attention. So you have few high visual points fighting each other. If you remove them, your blue round M and the text will be the first thing people see, now it's a fight between them and the buttons (This is pure image composition).
• And last one, don't worry! you are doing great! I understand the frustration with css. I'm a designer and I'm used to design in tools like sketch or illustrator and when It's css time, I want to kill myself.

Keep the good job!