It’s live now at https://bellalee.com, but still a work in progress!
to-do
- Initial revamp
- Fix mobile experience by getting rid of randomization
- Add project showcase pages
- Update about links
- Update about blurb to be more concrete and data-oriented
- Change links to component with icon indicating external link
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Add caption to bottom right corner of home page to instruct users to drag and drop/click to see details -
Redo draggable home page - Redesign home page
- Wavy big text that dissipates with the cursor
- Particles dissolving?
- Expandable case study categories
- Wavy big text that dissipates with the cursor
- Add page for friend comments/bulletin board?
- Change project posts into case studies
tech stack
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- TypeScript
what I like
- Bee opening animation
- Blog
what I don’t like
- Code is extremely funky
- I’d like to showcase more aspects of my personality outside of illustration
- Scroll animations were fun to do but I’ve gotten tired of them
what defines me?
- Information synthesis
- Attention to art and aesthetics
- Data organization and retrieval
inspo
resources
ideas
- Graph structure of pages or hyperlink mania
- Visually represented like browser windows or pieces of paper
desired changes
- Render blog posts in tiles
- Change color palette
- Put everything on one page
- Make it more playful
- Separate page format for blog posts vs. project showcases
- Photos!! I want to make this iteration more visual-focused, like a NYT photo essay
to-do
- Look into how designers make their UX portfolios
process
- V0 for image gallery framework
- My professor’s guidelines for AI are to always be the first and last person to touch your work
- Unfortunately I am not the most efficient coder
- I’m actually not too happy that I relied so heavily on it, so I’m going to redo the code following other documentation instead
- Drag and drop is fun but I want something more intuitive and that showcases more creativity
- Learning GSAP
- Found out that they have a draggable plugin that would’ve made my life so much easier