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Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites? I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m give
by J-dawg 8y ago
Anyone else find it depressing looking at all these awesome portfolio sites?
I’m a halfway-competent frontend developer who can build most things when I’m given a design, but I can’t imagine ever coming up with a cool quirky idea like this by myself. Where do you even begin?
- pixelbash 8y agoIf the designer I share an office with is anything to go by a key part is spending a good chunk of your day looking at other peoples designs..
- namanyayg 8y agoAs pixelbash said. You have to keep looking at new inspiration, and your subconscious mind will ruminate on it to give you interesting new combinations & ideas.
- abledon 8y agoFind a website design you like. Find a comic / movie / art piece you like . Smash the two color scheme / designs aesthetics together . Most creativity is smashing together previous stimuli into new things. Creative people can just do it a lot more easily and unconsciously like a muscle reflex Edit: lol even one of the other repliers is called ‘pixelbash’
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- J-dawg 8y agoThanks, I appreciate the idea! I think part of the problem is believing I can do it, I’m not sure how to overcome that
- Jarwain 8y agoI read your comment, wanted to reply, didn't know what to say. I moved on, ended up reading a speech by Neil Gaiman[1], with a quote that reminded me of your plight. > Someone asked me recently how to do something she thought was going to be difficult, in this case recording an audio book, and I suggested she pretend that she was someone who could do it. Not pretend to do it, but pretend she was someone who could. She put up a notice to this effect on the studio wall, and she said it helped. [1] https://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012 https://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012
- jfornear 8y agoBuilding a personal site is initially a design and time management exercise. Set aside a few hours a night, and before getting into Vue.js, CSS, etc., jot down a list of pages, sketch out a layout, and gather inspiration for the visual style and any creative ideas you want to add.
- lawn 8y agoTo comfort you these probably aren't the 1%, it's more likely the 0.1% or maybe the 1% of the 1% you see.
- kickscondor 8y agoEveryone cribs from each other. :D Really - find what elements attract you and reshape them. I think the more pages you look at, the more your brain will get stirred up about it.