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Vibe coding is fun, glad you could do this!
Clients hire graphic designers for unique and modern designs. I get that WinXP is retro these days, but WinOS is also the antithesis of good design. Hacker News will love it, but design industry folks won't. Especially all the clicks and delays it takes to get to your actual work (hint: bounce rate).
You're competing with a lot of designers right now, so you need to show your best work up front to stand out. Just like you, your clients need to grab attention and establish trust for their products and services, which is why they're spending money to hire a graphic designer.
Now that you've made this, archive it as a Personal Design Experiment and add it to your portfolio so it can still be discovered.
Then, remove the WinOS skin from your actual portfolio. Take visitors straight to your projects page: it should be your homepage.
In each project: show your work. It doesn't have to be perfect, 5-star design. Make it clear what you personally designed vs AI-designed, so they know what they're paying you for. Did you make sketches? Revisions? Show 'em. Not everything, just samples. With those, describe your thought process and work process. Demonstrate that working with you is a positive, efficient experience.
That's what will get you hired.
Finally, your work so far is sports oriented. You many want to make that your focus for now. Think about what a sports-designer portfolio should look like: bold, powerful, action-oriented graphics.
"Dyanamic" typo. otherwise, cool, nice, great work!
man, fix the typos. Dyanamic. otherwise, fun, great, keep going!
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This was my concern too - as a little project, it's interesting but if it's a replica of XP it has been done before and much more accurately. As a portfolio, I think it doesn't work at all and is detrimental to what you're trying to do. I think now in design, it is more important than ever for your work to cut through the noise and show at least some attempt to create something original. I think sometimes graphic des…
I think now in design, it is more important than ever for your work to cut through the noise and show at least some attempt to create something original. From what I've seen, at least half of design work is "make it look like x " where x may be "glass", "CRT effect" or "BigCo's design language". This project looks like some light-hearted fun and demonstrates an ability to achieve a desired look. You seem to be lookin…
My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(
Weird, what phone? How often does that aspect ratio ruin things?
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"Faster than a humans reaction" time is different from "indistinguishable".
Yeah of course it is different. My wording was not really correct here – I was rather meaning "irrelevant" in context of a user interface
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20ms is faster than a fly reaction time, it's about the same time which 60HZ monitor takes to refresh the frame, 10 times faster than a typical human's reaction. Everything under 150 ms is pretty much indistinguishably fast to a normal person.
If this were true, then a 10fps movie clip would be indistinguishable from a 24fps or a 60fps one. I have written several years ago about how optimizing my shell prompt from 50ms to 5ms was definitely a noticeable impact on how snappy the shell felt: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters.html