Create a visually appealing, attention-grabbing, clean and concise online portfolio that highlights my skills, goals and personality in the hopes to attract new clients or build on my personal brand.
Start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Highly protective of their idea/business.
- Look like a professional, emphasise on experience and show previous work.
- They have little funds.
- Be affordable, look approachable and not too ‘corporate’.
- Lacking knowledge on the given field.
- Look like a professional, with each project outline what is being done.
- Their employees tend to ‘wear many hats’.
- Highlight that I have touched on subjects involved in business and show examples of my business ventures.
- Fast-paced work environment with tight deadlines.
- Outline my work ethic.
Goal: Look professional but approachable
Dark and neutral colour scheme
Bright, flat colour scheme
Grey base colours and one bright, flat accent colour
A thick serif font for a professional feel
A sans-serif font of medium thickness to balance out the 'luxurious feel from the serif font
- Clean with minimal text
- Visual tools - skills graph
- Accent colour for call to action buttons
- Accent colour for other focal points - social media buttons in navbar and "learn more" in hero section
- Obvious hover states - change of colour or from fill to outline
A simple monogram logo
Clean design, readable typography, maximum of four colours in the colour scheme
Call-to-action buttons are yellow, other points of interest are coloured
Sticky navbar, logo sends you back to the homepage, minimal options in the navbar
Responsive design, alt-text included with all images, readable text
Logo in the top-left corner, hoverlinks applied, clickable logo
Sections are ordered to what is more valuable to the target audience. Each section is aimed to lure the audience into finding out more and, therefore, scrolling further into the other sections.
Goal: Highlight my current skills but outline that my skills are expanding. Use visual aid so that the user can encapsulate what I can do quickly rather than reading lare amounts of text.
Goal: Show my previous experience, explore what I have been able to do. Show my drive and work ethic.
Goal: Highlight my experience in business to attract my target audience. Touch on my passions to reveal a bit of my personality.
Goal: Friendly and approachable with a subtle sales pitch to further intrigue the audience.