It’s actually been live for a few months but I wanted to write a little about this new site, following on from the original post about creating a digital garden and later, my desire to make the site more carbon aware.
The actual design and build aims to minimise energy consumption – which you can read about on this dedicated page. The previous design scored terribly on carbon calculators, mostly because of images. This one ... it’s A+ baby!
I mourned a little over using default typefaces but it’s worth it. Back-to-basics web design and carbon aware principles doesn’t have to be ugly. And I’ve had great feedback.
There was another motivation to restructure things, and that was to create a space more constitutive of my practice.
My previous site was basically a mini-portfolio for full-time design work. Now that I’m freelance, I tend to take on projects with greater variety. And I've added research to my arsenal FF Studio calls me a unicorn lol I will take it. I also wanted a space to share self-directed projects and work outside of tech. And I’m starting a PhD in September (!!) so who knows what will come from that?
It’s nice to have a place to tinker with, that can grow with me. As Laurel Schwulst says,
If a website has endless possibilities, and our identities, ideas, and dreams are created and expanded by them, then it’s instrumental that websites progress along with us.