A designer learning to build her own portfolio

This website is my first serious frontend build. Rather than hiding the process, I am documenting it.

What surprised me

Design tokens changed how I think about visual design. Defining --accent once and never typing a hex value again felt like setting up a print colour system before laying out a magazine.

The content system was the second surprise: writing a case study into a text file — no component edits, no code — made publishing feel like filling a form.

What broke

A YAML parser read [CONTENT NEEDED] as an array and crashed the whole build. One pair of quotation marks fixed it. Lesson: every format has grammar, even the "simple" ones.

What is next

More experiments in the playground, more notes here as I go.