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Design

gareth connop
gareth connop
14,865 Points

Updated my personal site and would appreciate your comments.

Hi,

I've just finished updating my personal site http://garethconnop.com and would appreciate your comments and opinions about the design etc.

I will be adding links to each portfolio piece in time, showing larger images and my design process for each piece.

Thanks

Gareth

7 Answers

Dean Wagman
Dean Wagman
21,591 Points

The Minimalism is pretty cool. One thing that was confusing at first were your h2 tags. They're styled to look like buttons and I wanted to click them, but they weren't buttons. But I see you use the same style for your 'Send' button on your contact page making me question whether it was a button or another header. I could see this being even more frustrating on a touch device.

Simple fix though, everything else was nice.

Dean

I was trying to click on the buttons then I realized they were just titles. You can short a little bit the text about "why to use me" try to use less text, sometimes short text say more. Maybe you can include an image beside the text. I like the response design. Good luck.

Felix.

Pablo Litardo
Pablo Litardo
6,241 Points

Looks Great ! I do agree with the rest, the title look a lot like buttons so I was also trying click on them, but overall looks sweet, Love Minimalism.

Paul Crossley
Paul Crossley
936 Points

Look's awesome mate , really well done but I to agree with the others on the <h2> elements looking alot like buttons , I did find myself trying to press "about me" to learn more instead of looking underneath for the information, that being said i'm a huge minimalism guy haha and the full length nav bar at the top is a winner!

Justin Horner
STAFF
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I love the design. I have to agree with the others on the button-like elements. Great job!

gareth connop
gareth connop
14,865 Points

Thanks all for taking the time to look at the site. Looks like I will need to change those H2's.

My biggest pet-peeve is labeling yourself as a "web ui/ux designer". As it looks now, your simply a web designer/front-end developer. UI =/= UX. Best argument for that is one cannot design for a User Experience (not to be confused with Service Design), one can only predict and change the User Interface or adapt the Usability for said UI, to further assist the hopeful UX [finished result]. Best to keep away from tech buzz-words.