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Ryan

Hi, my portfolio is located at ryanduma.is/

I would love any kind of feedback but a focus on design and usability.
Thank you in advance, everyone!

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Ben Sinclair

I like it, for the most part.

You include your age under your profile picture, and I'm wondering what you're doing that for. Normally this is a place to indicate achievements, skills and contact details. The only people who are going to care about your age are companies... companies that you really don't want to end up working for.

The only other thing I'd suggest improving is the "Resume" button. I suspect this is a U.S. thing, but I'd suggest either changing the text to "RΓ©sumΓ©" or "Resume/CV" because the word "resume" is an action word, and it's on a button. In terms of UI, it looks like you press that button to un-pause something. I know context is everything, but still it looks funny to my British eyes.

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Ali Spittel

Hey! This is cool and has all the relevant info, which is awesome. I like having your resume too. The accordion, for me, wasn't the most obvious. Maybe cards would be better to really highlight your projects? I would also make the linemaster image bigger so it's easier to read! I would also add some more spacing between icons. I really like the red outline! it's a nice touch!

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Jack Harner πŸš€

Just some thoughts:

I like the simplicity. Everything is laid out in an easy to find way. The image lightboxs loads smoothly and swiftly. Good job on that

You might consider reevaluating your color palette. I'm not a big fan of the color you have for the project cards. You've got the dark dark blue background, with purple and red highlights. Obviously colors come down to taste, but I feel like you have too many highlight colors.

One last thought:

Your project tags look like buttons. My first thought was to click on them but since it doesn't do anything, it was kind of confusing.

Cool site though! Good work!