Having developed my entire website, including navigation, the main things for me to work on are the text that would be contained on each webpage, and getting feedback from my peers and tutor. The feedback I received was overwhelmingly positive, with advice focusing primarily on helping ease user navigation and readability. This being something I wanted to feel as intuitive as possible, proved extremely useful in evolving my websites design. Some of the adjustments I made was adding a “return to home” function on the L signature at the top left of each website and including a ‘home’ icon at the bottom of each page for the user to click on instead of scrolling back to the top of the website.
In improving readability, I removed the background image on the “what I do” section. This was due to the image taking away from the text, and creating a lot of visual noise in an otherwise quite sleak, and elegant webpage. I attempted to experiment with adjustments to the contrast, and readability of the text, but based on the feedback received, the image was just taking away regardless of adjustments, resulting in it being cut.
The most important feedback I received was the general positioning of the portfolio layout, as this would be the main way employers would view my work. I wanted it to feel readable, while also in line with the shape language of the website. General consensus was that the stacked look would create a more engaging and readible experience for users, while also being cohesive with the rest of the shape language of the website.
I also received feedback that the photo of the “about me” section made me come across quite seriously, when I want to have something represent my fun natured side so I updated the photo to something that could fill the page more comfortably. I also opted to change the colour scheme to something I felt was more in line with my personality. So I picked a variant of purple as it’s my favourite colour!
The final piece of feedback I received was that I should adjust the subtitle text for each of the RMIT folio pieces. I was advised that rather than naming each one after what exactly the assignment was, that giving it a unique piece name that would give audiences a compelling hook to keep reading. So I went to each task, and came up with names that I felt were not only resonant with each task, but also loosely connected in their thematic.
Lighting Up Your week 