Hi guys. Ive been a designer for about 5 years. I recently put together a personal/portfolio/showcase website and will appreciate feedback from the community.
You can check it out at > http://ojanti.com/
Your feedback is highly appreciated.
Hi guys. Ive been a designer for about 5 years. I recently put together a personal/portfolio/showcase website and will appreciate feedback from the community.
You can check it out at > http://ojanti.com/
Your feedback is highly appreciated.
Hey John,
Weâd be happy to check out your portfolio but please take some time to review at least one other portfolio first, as per these guidelines.
Thanks!
Oh, pardon me. Wish I had seen that earlier
Hey John,
Here you go:
Hope thatâs helpful
Hi @HAWK
Thank you soo much for the feedback. User feedback is golden.
Iâll look into the (very embarrassing) error you noticed when the HELLO WANDERER text was clicked.
A side question - How did you know the text was clickable? Did the icon help? Did you suspect it was after the highlight that shows up when hovering over the area? Iâll appreciate the info.
Iâll fix the text errors you spotted. Really grateful.
Regarding the lack of UX documentations and projects, yea itâs an issue for me. Most of my UX work were done within official capacity in a company and sadly I wasnât granted permission to share the process .
So i decided to do some freelance work this year but both of the projects i did havenât launched so they are concerned about exposing the ideas.
Once again, thank you so much for the feedback
Hi there,
My feedback isnât as in depth as Hawkâs, but I wanted to give you something. Sadly, Iâm not a fan of the text in the search bar. It looks like itâs encouraging me to type something but I never get the opportunity to. In the end, all I can do is contact you.
I hope that makes sense. Let me know.
Piper
Canât remember TBH. Curiosity?
Hello @Piper_Wilson, yes yes yes. this point seems to be reoccurring. Ill definitely look into it.
Thanks so much.
@Piper_Wilson @HAWK . Iâm considering using a CLI response type styling to replace the search look as a temporary fix. Something that looks like this first draft. I can style it more to look like a real CLI interface. Just dont want tone/contrast that conflicts with the design.
Does it affect your tendency to type in it? What do you think?
John, those are some curious design choices you made for your portfolio framework. I would love to know the context of it - who is your site aimed for, whatâs the goal here?
I can see you have some serious front-end skills but perhaps overusing them to create this extensive portfolio framework with your projects kind of buried a bit too deep wonât serve your purpose. I mean back in a day we had printed versions of our portfolios, and did a number of crazy things with them but never was the framework more important then the work.
While weâre on the framework subject I must admit my eyes squinted a little when Iâve read âdesignerâ and saw youâd chosen to mimic googleâs old design. Why? Let me retrospect: prior to 2011 nobody even heard of google design team, the community was sure this data driven company just employed bots to a/b test every single element in quest for creation of the most universal (and in effect dull and boring) design ever. I believe it was the flop of Google+ in 2012 that lead community to ask who the hell designed this service and Google to finally take their designers out of the closets and basements producing some really inspiring ideas - like material design. Can you see what happened here? Before material design Google was just saying âpooâ and a/b testing how it sounds better - and since it failed - theyâve created a visual language so they can form real sentences now.
So on the concept level why would you choose to copy Googleâs old design (even account login area - very fishy) instead of using their still fresh design language to create your own design? And why to position yourself within Google ecosystem in the first place?
Hi @kwedo, thanks for the âextensiveâ feeback haha.
So the site is primarily aimed at 2 profiles
Fellows involved at the technical phases of a typical software development process for:
_ their viewing pleasure
_ striking interesting conversations like this
Potential recruiters who may be Tech Leads or Human Resources personnel interested in hiring a designer
Based on my understanding of the second paragraph, I didnt intend for the website to just display a gallery or portfolio of my work. I also wanted the siteâs build to reflect my design/coding skills hence why I created this page. Also I never name it a portfolio website alone. I want it to serve other purposes such as a blog so i always add the personal in the title personal/portfolio website.
I perfectly understanding what youâre saying. Im saying from the feedback ive been getting, it seems to be achieving what i intended .
I dont think i copied Googleâs old design. I started building the site and backend app a few hours a week as a side thing since last year. ALL design inspiration in respect to Google can be dated only as far back as 2016.
As for the account login area, Google recently changed that. After the first wave of user tests i conducted about one & half months ago, I decided to scrap that page. Ill probably implement in the next major update. Can you comment more on why you think its âfishyâ?
Please reference this link for more info. It answers many of the questions you asked in the 3rd and 4th paragraphs.
@kwedo, I hope I provided enough answers. Again, thanks so much for taking the time to review & respond, I deeply appreciate.
I really like this portfolio! The only thing for me, is that I want to see more of your style, not googles. But, I did think this was very creative.
I liked the initial material design, especially the contact link coming up as a âcompose emailâ - really nice touch.
This link was sadly broken: http://ojanti.com/watchlist
I feel it lacks your creative input rather than just using Googleâs components.
The personalisation was nice, but I kept wanting to click in the search bar
Thanks for the feedback @dan0 . It resonates well with feeback from others.
Yes, the search bar has been an issues. I will work on that as well other points in the next version