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His website is legend among UX designers because it's such a great example of how to do a portfolio creatively.

• theoh 12y ago
  Really? I thought he was a celebrity among programmers because of his imaginative approach. Surely any UX designer worth their salt would find his home page to be moronically simplistic in the way it tries to shake up graphic design conventions. He is interesting, but not, I think, in a "design" way. Also, "worrydream", "beast of burden"? A bit too neurotic to be considered appropriate by, well, anyone grown up.
  • seanmcdirmid 12y ago
    A website meant to be usable is a bit different from one meant to be a portfolio. From that perspective, I think his website works well, but it is a bit dated in terms of aesthetics (not as flat as the current fashion goes). I don't think Bret Victor's work is really about design (most of the UX designers I know have never heard of him), it is about invention and is a bit more on the programmer side. Putting him in the designer bucket is too inaccurate (but buckets are always inaccurate). I saw this talk in person at SPLASH; the puppy in cage for life really pulls at some heart strings. But it didn't really do it for me like the previous talks did (though he didn't have any prototypes to show off as with the previous talks).
  • joshkpeterson 12y ago
    My comment was shorthand for: I discovered his portfolio a couple years ago through: http://www.quora.com/What-makes-a-great-UX-Design-portfolio http://www.quora.com/What-makes-a-great-UX-Design-portfolio and since then it's come up in conversation with UX designers as a cool portfolio 3 or 4 times. But the points you make are valid.
• DanBC 12y ago
  > such a great example Are you being serious?