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Unimpressive portfolio. All too common of an attitude in both creative and engineering oriented industries. The greatest things are built through collaboration, and the most brilliant people are generally the most humble — their work speaks for themselves. The markup isn't great at all, and the overall usability and typography choices suck. Get over yourself, millennial.
How come designers can have an attitude, but developers can't?
There was something about the copy of this guy that was both repulsive and engaging all in the same serving ... like a train wreck you can take your eyes off.
Some of the samples are compelling and beautiful. I'm annoyed they are not clickable. But the rest is kind of "meh". Like I've never heard a talented, intelligent professional whine before about this type thing. My advice: Put some of that intelligence towards learning how to better market yourself or some such so you make better money and have less to kvetch about.
He made the front page of Hacker News, didn't he?
Unimpressive portfolio. All too common of an attitude in both creative and engineering oriented industries. The greatest things are built through collaboration, and the most brilliant people are generally the most humble — their work speaks for themselves. The markup isn't great at all, and the overall usability and typography choices suck. Get over yourself, millennial.
Definitely agree with you about the usability, the giant header cut right at the bottom of my 1600x900 screen, I had to look at the source of the page before I realized I was supposed to scroll down to see more.
How come designers can have an attitude, but developers can't?
uh? Many many developers have an attitude. many many do, like dhh, zed shaw and many others. They can be engaging. There was something about the copy of this guy that was both repulsive and engaging all in the same serving ... like a train wreck you can take your eyes off.
"And yes I'm the same idiot that sold a used wetsuit on eBay for £9,000." Ah, I remember this! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160... very similar, but an ebay listing not a portfolio website. he certainly knows how to copywrite in a way that gets him traffic.
If you've ever had to do a website for a small biz, you typically find that either a) you end up doing the copy or b) the site never gets finished (and you don't get paid, or if you do get paid, you get to put an empty site in your portfolio). Good copy-writing is thus very handy skill to have (and this guy, in his eBay listing at least, absolutely nails it... the £9k bottom line speaks for itself).
I hope someone creates another site from the perspective of the engineer who has to implement his outlandish designs. The first sentence: "If it were as simple to do on a website as it is in Photoshop, I would have done it". Followed by: "I'm paying you so do what the fuck I want."
The only "engineers" that complain about implementing "outlandish" designs are ones who don't understand HTML/CSS/JS as much as they say they do. Literally anything is possible on the Web.
I hope someone creates another site from the perspective of the engineer who has to implement his outlandish designs. The first sentence: "If it were as simple to do on a website as it is in Photoshop, I would have done it". Followed by: "I'm paying you so do what the fuck I want."
The only "engineers" that complain about implementing "outlandish" designs are ones who don't understand HTML/CSS/JS as much as they say they do. Literally anything is possible on the Web.
Unimpressive portfolio. All too common of an attitude in both creative and engineering oriented industries. The greatest things are built through collaboration, and the most brilliant people are generally the most humble — their work speaks for themselves. The markup isn't great at all, and the overall usability and typography choices suck. Get over yourself, millennial.
Down with corporations! and stuff...
Well. This guy seems to be good at doing graphics. I like the graphics in the thumbnail he put. I don't like the sites design in the portfolio thumbs, but I need to get the full site URL and display it on my screen to be sure. I like how he presented himself and the website coding. There are two points, though: 1. Don't use images for Text. He can use cuffon or font-face 2. I need to click the thumb. Since the page d…