Portfolio Day

Tony Dattilo Art Opening

Possible extra credit? I figure why not try!

Professional Feedback 4

Melissa Hackett
Visual Arts and Communication Instructor
Canfield Ohio

Layout of home page is vivid and visually interesting. The bright colors on the black background pulls you into my portfolio section and makes someone wants to investigate more into the website. Keeping the downloadable files in a similar file naming system will be a good idea because if future employers download some of your work than it will be easy to relocate after downloading. Suggestion for naming system: Quail_C_xxxxxxx. When heading into the portfolio work the banner is interesting, but could be potently overpowering. Solution for this could be just reducing the hight and perhaps reduce the size of the title i.e. (infographic, collateral, iPhone App). There are some pages that have a next and previous button near the body copy, but some pages have a next project button at the bottom of the page too (perhaps this is just because it hasn't been updated to the newest version of the site yet). On the contact section, the caption is hilarious and would work if your already an established designer, but just starting out perhaps keep it more conservative.

Peer Review 4

Scott Cross

Layout looks clean, and easy to navigate. Colors and images work well on the black background. All links seem to work and color scheme throughout the website is consistent. Nothing needs to be changed or fixed about the layout or colors.

Suggestion:
Pin the navigation to have it follow you down the page so its easier to get back to the top when your in the resume section and contact section.

Professional Feedback 3

Renee Pasley

Replied back stating there was no time to take to review my site due work overload. She did briefly look at my home page and said she enjoyed the colors, and layout looked good. 

Doug Heinlein

Made a hastily comment about my site not being responsive, with checking or asking if the site is adaptive. He stated that there is a confusion of visual information due to lack of hierarchy and a ambiguous grid structure. It was also suggested not to work on a black background. There was a good suggestion about limiting text on the home page that is associated with the projects and simplify it a little more. He continued to say none of the pages really serve to tell the story of your discovery process and solution. mismanagement of photos in size and placement, no real base structure evident.

Site Analysis 3

http://www.kathrynmcclintock.com

Kathryn McClintock site is a parallax site which I have found is the top trending type of site as of now. Though her site has a extremely feminine felling with light feminine stylized type as well as colorful floral imagery, I believe it speaks to her as a person. This designer does add an image of herself, which I am neutral feeling about. I do enjoy how she has call outs to words with a red underline to give it more attention. I absolutely hate the treatment that was given to the social media icons. I do understand it is mimicking the headline stylization, but I do not believe its the best choice to completely redesign a social media icon.

http://pgwebdesign.net

Patrick Glynn is a front end web designer. He has a good treatment of sublet textures that work well together. The projects are set up in a simplistic grid like manner, a little boring, but gets the job done. All the projects to have a heading slightly explaining what the project is for. There is interactivity but is minimal. The social icons are only found at the footer of the page, I do not believe that is the best choice. There is a search bar at the bottom of the page (non-traditional) and I don't understand why it’s even needed. 

http://www.denisechandler.com

Denise Chandler has the best site out of these 3 sites examined. There is a ton of interactivity and motion within this site. There is once again an image of the artist on their site but like I said before, my feelings are neutral about this. The twitter link is actually found in the middle of the portfolio page and actually has a call out with it. This actually does give the social icon a ton of attention. Instead of images for the portfolio section there are illustrations that represent what the project is about. I have seen this technique before, and am not the biggest fan of this approach. There is a email form to fill out and no other way of contacting the artist. 

Peer Review with Nishio, Arisa

Not much was suggested in changes. I got a lot of oh’s and wow’s. I did notice through observation though that the profile section didn't seem to be obviously clickable so perhaps having it titled “Portfolio” before the projects may help. The phone version works well on both iPhone and Android, one suggestion was given to label what the projects are still about instead of just having images.