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We’ve launched a new Feedback category for designers to showcase their work, gather feedback, and leave contact details for potential collaborations.

Submit your website to this thread before December 16 to have it reviewed by experts in using Readymag:

→ Kolja Warnecke (@neueMeta), author of https://berge-versetzen.com/
→ Freya Lauersen (@Freya_Lauersen), https://freyalauersen.com/
→ Axel Castillo (@axel), https://axelcastillo.com

We welcome input from all members of our community :heart:

Please note, only websites built using Readymag can be submitted.

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Víctor del Val - Multidisciplinary designer
https://victordelval.me/

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My portfolio website as a visual storyteller https://antoniasonntag.xyz/

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Half-Human Half-Designer based in Montenegro.

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[Tarn Watkinson Graphic Designer Portfolio V001_WIP]
(https://tarnwatkinson.xyz/)

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Hello :slight_smile: here’s the link to the website I would really appreciate a review on.
Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Wonderful to see such expert examples featured here! Thank you for creating this opportunity :slight_smile:

My portfolio website: https://ameliesuarez.com/

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Hi Nvard!

Your site is such a beautiful reflection of your artistic style—vibrant, clean, and thoughtfully laid out. The calls to action across the site are clear, making it easy for users to explore your work while also being prompted to engage with your studio and services. The balance of white space and visuals highlights your work well, though adding a few small interactive touches could bring even more dynamism to the presentation. For example, a simple ‘Load – Move & Fade’ animation when text and images appear could enhance the user experience as they scroll.

The hover effects on the projects and services are great. One suggestion would be to use different thumbnails for the highlighted projects and services to avoid confusion with the same content. The same applies to the repeated infinite scrolling line of “Happy Clients,” “Features,” and “Awards & Nominations”—changing the presentation format could make this information more intuitive to navigate.

The typography complements your work perfectly, giving the site a refined look. However, I’d recommend scaling the text down slightly on mobile for better clarity. Additionally, creating more space between the edge of the screen and your text at the top of some pages could further refine the sleek, sophisticated design your site already has.

Your website feels polished and personal, with a cohesive look and feel in terms of colour and click-throughs. With just a few tweaks, it could become an even stronger showcase of your talent!

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This site captures a striking, cinematic and artistic vibe that aligns beautifully with the dark, immersive and full-screen visuals—incredibly bold and engaging tone. The minimalist navigation perfectly suits the artistic nature of the work showcased, and the overall design is sleek and modern!

The opening animation is visually captivating, but slightly speeding it up and aligning the shapes to match the text color would create a more polished, seamless effect. To further enhance the contrast between the sections, perhaps incorporating blend modes to overlay the visuals could bring even more depth and sophistication.

The need to return to the opening screen to switch between “Visual Arts” and “Cinematography” can feel a little sticky in terms of navigation, especially as first-time users might find it unclear where to click or scroll. A smoother flow could involve displaying the other category in the header navigation after entering one of the two sections. Additionally, maintaining consistent header layouts across “Visual Arts” and “Cinematography,” with buttons placed in the same location on all pages, would help unify the user experience.

The text and image layout for projects “Steel-Lives, Still life”, “Loss of revelance” and “I will talk to you…” is excellent! Applying the same thoughtful formatting and providing more context for the opening project “Laguna” and other project pages would further guide visitors and maintain consistency across the site. Balancing the imagery with text more effectively could ensure that important context isn’t lost, making the overall experience even more cohesive. Additionally, optimizing mobile responsiveness—ensuring text and visuals scale perfectly— would make the site more accessible across devices and make the site feel just as refined across all devices.

This site does a wonderful job of reflecting its creator’s bold, artistic vision and showcases the work in a fresh, dynamic way. By building upon the navigation and text layout you’ve seamlessly created, it could become an even stronger portfolio of creative talent. Excellent work! :slight_smile:

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Hi Victor! Your website has such a wonderful, playful design that instantly captures attention and creates an engaging user experience, well done! The interactive elements, such as the ability to move objects around, give the site a unique and dynamic feel, allowing visitors to feel more involved with the content. The minimalist layout serves as a perfect backdrop for these playful features, creating a balance between professionalism and fun.

One suggestion to enhance the experience further would be to make the “Move the object around” text appear only when hovering over the visual elements. This would create a more seamless and intuitive interaction, allowing the user to naturally discover the feature rather than it being immediately visible.

Another improvement would be to make the centered title hyperlinked to the homepage. Right now, it’s a static design element, but turning it into an active link would give users a clear and convenient way to navigate back to the main page.

I can see the project pages doesn’t currently work on mobile, which can be a barrier for users on smaller screens and many are still under construction, however, the cohesiveness of the design so far is solid. Once those pages are completed, making sure they’re mobile-friendly will be important to ensure all visitors have a smooth experience. One idea to further enhance the project pages could be to incorporate click-through links on each project page to other related projects. This would allow visitors to easily explore more of your work, creating a stronger connection between the different projects on the site and allow the user to explore further into your portfolio easier.

Overall, the site beautifully combines creativity and functionality, and with a few enhancements plus mobile ability, it will offer an even more immersive and smooth experience for visitors. Love it!

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Hi Lukas, I absolutely love your little landing page! I’m instantly hooked and want to keep scrolling to find out more! It has a really playful feel to it! Your title, “Half-Human / Half-Designer,” immediately made me think of the amazing game Half Life. It’s perfect because you seem to be rooted in gaming, and your use of motion design reflects that. I think the small text under the title could be a little bigger, as it’s a little on the edge of legibility.

Although I like the size relation of the title and text, but I think it could be a bit more in balance with its function. If you want people to read the text, you might want to make a few adjustments. I also like the font you’ve chosen.

The real kicker, which explains you as a designer really well, is the video about you.

Entertaining, absolutely creative! I would put the video more in the center. Maybe make it a bit bigger. But I love it, and it immediately suggests that you are a fun guy to work with.

I think the dynamics you use in your narrative in the video could be picked up even better in the overview of your work. Maybe you could add a little more playfulness here. You could also work with “hover” effects in the desktop version and break up the rigid grid a little. After all, your style isn’t rigid like a grid; it’s very playful, fast, dynamic and moving.

I also thought at the beginning that clicking on an image in the grid would take me to a subpage with project information. Your costume cursor also makes me think the elements are clickable. I don’t think a subpage is necessary, but I have a feeling it doesn’t work ideally right now.

With two graphics, something actually happens: once an Instagram link, which is opened in the same tab, and once the picture gets bigger. You could decide whether this should happen for all or none of them. I could also imagine that it works well if you get at least a few details about each project. For example: “Poster design for…” Or “Personal graphic study”. Then potential clients would have a better overview of what areas of work you cover.

The footer is giving some more information and links, but the font size is again a little bit too tiny here.

In the mobile version, the focus is on your resume video, as the grid isn’t presented. Which I think is a good option if you don’t want to show all elements. However, I think you need a little more information, as not everyone wants to click “play” on a video if you are on your mobile device and prefers to “read” information. Maybe you could also put the title “Half Human Half Designer” and a small info text above the video to satisfy this.

Overall, a really great portfolio you got there! A little bit more fine-tuning and it gets even better!

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Hi Tarn,

Well, I think there’s a bit more work to be done on that. The landing page is pure minimalism at its best. Although I like the font, there could be some more information about what you are/do. Maybe put your profession under your name and use a different font size on the “information” and “projects” buttons. I would suggest putting some of your work on your landing page to give the viewer a direct idea of what they are looking at. I like your idea of using the black dot as a key visual. Using it as a custom cursor is good, but somehow the cursor isn’t set up correctly, as it’s not related to the actual cursor position. (The buttons respond to hovering a little over your custom dot cursor.) You may need to play around with the size of the custom cursor when uploading. It seems to be a bit too big or has a transparent frame around it.

On your information page, I would add a back button or keep the top left navigation.

In general, if you don’t have that many projects and information, I think it would also be a good solution to just put everything on a single page:

Maybe your name and profession are fading in with an animation, and a little later the projects appear in the middle. I really like the use of the slideshow as an interactive element to show pictures of the projects, but maybe splitting this and having two different slideshows showing pictures of one project would give you extra graphical elements to fill the whitespace.

Then, when you scroll down, your contact information appears below.

This would be a minimalistic portfolio on which the viewer doesn´t have to click anywhere and is getting all the information just by scrolling down. Pretty easy, but effective.

Minimalism is king! :wink:

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Hi Amelie,

Great landing page! The little text describing you and the little animations work wonderfully. You immediately read the text before you even think about doing anything else. It works great. Maybe your name could also be highlighted a little more visually.

The idea of putting your wonderful showreel right underneath also works really well. After reading the intro text, I was eager to see the quick dynamic impressions of the showreel that lurked in from beneath, and I automatically scrolled down.

The small selection of subsequent projects with thumbnails also works very well.

I could almost imagine adding the list of your projects from the subpage “projects” beneath this. Then you would have everything directly at a glance.

I also like the footer, which picks up on the blue colour from above and provides a good graphic bracket. The call to action, ‘Let’s create something cool together!’ also suggests a sympathetic and uncomplicated way of making contact.

In general, I could also imagine that it would work well if your logo at the top left and the navigation were fixed and would also scroll down. This could make the structure of your portfolio a little bit clearer.

On the project detail pages, I’m not sure whether the suddenly black background here doesn’t confuse me a little. I really like this bright white tone in combination with your key color blue; it’s simple and works. The amount of detail in the reports on each individual project is really professional, totally helpful for potential customers, and adds absolute value. Also, a great use of playful tiny motion here.
However, I miss the footer on the project detail pages. It would also work wonderfully here and close the visual bracket here as well.

I also like the ‘play’ category, but I would perhaps explain to the user what it is with a little intro text. Something like ‘Here you can see some free experiments’. And I don’t really understand the ‘grab’ function. Is the user supposed to play himself? Then it’s strange that the titles of the images can’t be moved. Isn’t this about showing YOUR playful use of graphics?

Maybe you don’t even need the category, as I think you already show so much creativity and professionalism with your other projects.

The ‘About’ page:
First, the button is misplaced about 1 or 2 pixels above the other nav buttons. But that’s easily fixed.
It’s great that you’re using the blue color in the animations again. The image of you and the little playful interaction also make me smile, are creative, and make you look very likeable. In addition, the rather serious and straightforward information about your work experience fits very well as a contrast and underlines your professionalism.

Your ‘Currently listening to’ section is funny, but I don’t think it really needs it; it seems a bit ‘hobby’ like. But it’s certainly a matter of taste.

Well, I’m looking forward to the mobile version, which is “coming soon” :wink:

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Hi Toni!

First and foremost, big props for building such a personal and expressive portfolio! It was a really fun and energetic way to tell your story. You have a really good understanding of typography, layout, and color theory! Those (among others) are key foundational ingredients that will help you through out your career, so keep it up!
Here are a couple of things to I’d consider, specially when designing a portfolio that leans on the maximalist spectrum.

Hierarchy

This one is a must, specially when you’re designing something that asks viewers to switch their attention back and forth from “play and explore” to “stop and read”. Hierarchy relies on highlighting crucial information your hoping users will walk away with, in this case, I would consider any “background, experience, education” like the “table of contents receipt” under your work section. Although I personally really like the playful approach of the receipt, I would revisit the layout, so viewers can easily distinguish from important information vs embellishing design elements.

Audience

The content on your site, specially the work, should always take into consideration the audience you’re hoping to attract. Now trust me when I say I feeeeel the need for creative expression, as designer and artist myself, but this is such a fine line to balance. Now let me say, I think you’re on the right path! Maybe consider curating portfolio pieces that show the range of design chops (cause you got them) to attract studios/roles that best fit you. When in doubt, always lean with quality over quantity. If you’re starting out, I would take on self imposed design projects, app redesigns, or re-brands, and highlight that. The right people will know what to look for, and see that you’re trying!

Mobile

You’ve got mobile fairly well covered! Only advice here would be to revisit type and button sizes. Specially the navigation buttons, since you want viewers to make it past your homepage and into your work. On a smaller note, I did see that some buttons and copy were overlapping in your About page, totally small potatoes and easy to fix.

Overall great job Toni!! Loved seeing the amazing work you do under the “Play” page. Wishing you the best!

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Hi Cooper!

Something tells me you’re good with color and type…. because you did a really nice job with the color story and typography on your site! I really enjoyed how easy it was to dive into the content of your landing page, and enjoyed the on-scroll effect! Overall I like how you’re thinking about interaction and animations as supporting elements that don’t distract viewers from digesting your content and experience. With that in mind, here are a couple of things I’d consider to help improve your audience’s experience when visiting your site.

Landing Page

I’m always a fan of big statement footers, it’s a great way to help visitors recall your work after they leave. The color blocking and contrasting type is really well done, hats off to you! One thing I like to keep in mind, when I decide to lean with a chunky footer, is what users experience before they get there. In this case, the long stack of text leading up to the footer covers really important information people might want to clearly and easily know about you. Which leads me to suggest two things, I would ensure that the copy has a good flow, especially when you’re segmenting type with imagery. This type treatment tends to do very well in smaller chunks, because it doesn’t rely on the user to juggle visual elements while reading. In this case, I would consider either revisiting the copy so it’s shorter, or would minimize the amount of visual elements you use. What might be more important regardless of what you choose to do, would probably be to ensure that the placement of the images is at a natural break, and not in the middle of relating words that will cut the reader’s flow.

Work

Really cool work! I really enjoyed seeing how you present type, color, and logos in your visual identity pieces. In the work page, I noticed there are some project tiles that don’t lead to a project details page, but instead use the slideshow feature. I thought this was a clever way of showcasing more work, but it might be nice to have a different treatment for those projects to easily identify which projects lead to more information. It’s interesting work and I found myself wanting to know more. If it’s work that you might not have more to say, consider treating it differently than others so users know there’s not a deeper layer, but are still able to know your role, contributions, and project type. (Looking at the Civil Service)

Lastly, your FAQ page is awesome! I hope Austin Strauss gets closure. Oh, and add a favicon to your site! Overall great work Cooper!

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Hi Beatriz!

You’ve designed a really beautiful site! Minimalism holds a special place in my heart, so going through your work was fun. I absolutely loved the photography and lighting designs they portray. Given the minimalistic nature of your design, attention to detail is key. I normally like to pay attention to a couple of things: Negative Space, Typography, Imagery, and would consider Animations, in that order too. I think you’ve addressed most of those. Here are some things I would consider further:

Typography

I would play around with size for san serif headers a bit to help ground copy that lives in open spaces. A place that comes to mind is “Thank you for being here.” In the about and contact pages, however, I would make this a global rule to help keep consistency. For example, the “aurora” header under work does a great job at grounding that copy (primarily because it’s a deeper weight and left aligned), but the scale also plays a role. Because your typographic treatment is minimal, sometimes it can make small deviations in type alignment stick out, especially when they vary in usage. I would be really systematic about when left align vs centered font styles are used. For example, the indented image product captions initially read like a design mistake until I realized it was fully intentional. I would either make it really obvious and center align everything to the image or just follow a left align pattern.

Animation

Because you totally killed it on the spacing and photography, one thing your site could really benefit from would be adding on scroll animations for images, section titles, and maybe on hover effects. This would really help elevate the user experience as they navigate your site. I think it could be the perfect “oomph” to tie everything together really well! If you’re new to animation, I would look at readymag’s out-of-the-box animations, try it on one element, and use the copy effects feature! Remember, less is more, but play around!

Overall, really good job! Both on desktop and mobile!

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Thank you to all who participated, and a big shoutout to our amazing experts for their thoughtful and detailed feedback! @Freya_Lauersen @neueMeta @axel :heart: The conversation doesn’t end here—keep sharing your Readymag websites in the Feedback category and exchanging insights with other forum members.