Portfolio Over the Years

Like many designers, I've worked on a number of iterations of my portfolio over the years. It's a great opportunity to try out new front end tools, while also telling your story. Here are the ghosts of portfolios past.

2012 — School Project

I built this site using PHP, HTML, CSS, and some jQuery to make things feel a bit magical.

2012 site built with HTML/CSS PHP 👼

Old projects I'd worked on — oh the memories 🥺

2015 — First Job

I built this site during grad school using Wordpress. I took an existing theme and modified it to fit the styles I wanted to use. It was mostly filled with student projects, web projects, graphic design, and some early UX work.

2015 Custom Theme WordPress Site 💅

2015 project highlights ✨

2018/2019 — Gatsby Site

In 2018, I became interested in learning Javascript and React. I'd started learning from Wes Bos' online courses and also took an in-person Javascript course at Juno College. I built my portfolio site using Gatsby to practice using React. While building it, I landed a job at Together, so I shipped what I had built up to that point.

View 2018 Portfolio

2018 site built with Gatsby 💪

2021 — You're looking at it

I built this website using Keystone and Next.js. It was a good excuse to learn some new tech and comb through new docs and tutorials.

I've become a lot more familiar with:

• Next.js
• Keystone.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Framer Motion
• Typescript — very rudimentary knowledge of how to declare types, and see what benefits you get in your IDE from using typescript
• Working with GraphQL and building out backend schemas with Keystone for projects and posts
• Deploying on Vercel

Some more technical and front-endy designers that inspired me to build a new portfolio:

• Brian Lovin
• Gavin Nelson
• Rauno Freiberg
• Paul Stamatiou
• Ryan Lucas
• Taamannae Taabassum