Personal Website Build
(On-going)
Personal Project
©2026
Why I built it myself
Most industrial designers use template portfolios. They're functional but they signal nothing about you beyond the projects inside them. I made a different call: if the portfolio is the first thing someone sees, it should itself be a designed object. Not dressed up, but genuinely considered. From the grid to the smallest hover state. Building it myself was the only way to have that level of control.
There's also an honest practical reason. As someone working across industrial design, interaction, and speculative design, a generic template doesn't hold all of that together with any coherence. The site needed a point of view that matched the range of work inside it. So I built one.
Why documenting it matters
Industrial designers are often assumed to stop at the physical object. Presenting the website itself as a UI/UX project dismantles that assumption directly. I am not doing it by claiming the skill, but by demonstrating it. This case study shows that I made deliberate decisions about information hierarchy, interaction states, responsive behaviour, and system architecture. That's the full vocabulary of UX work, and I wrote the code for all of it using Claude Ai.
