Case Study

One day, I was looking up my friend Sunbiscuit's commission prices because I was looking to get some art done for personal use and she is usually one of the first people I resort to when that comes up. I had noticed her portfolio had changed from the initial site she was using and moved to Canva. It came with a new design and everything, however, I found it really hard to navigate between information. While there's nothing wrong with the canva route, I couldn't sit by and potentially have the difficult UX lose her some potential clients.

The build of this website was relatively straight-forward. Everything was built using vanilla HTML, CSS, and Javascript, with a couple of API calls so I could ensure that Sunbiscuit could easily update the site whenever she wanted.

The biggest challenge with this project, however, was creating something satisfactory while keeping it a secret from her. Her birthday was in November but I wanted to build this out for her as her gift. Thus, with no access to assets, I had to get creative and find ways on how to implement assets for display purposes until it was presentation time. Thus, I used some old artwork she did for me, as well as screenshots, to fill in most of the blanks. Unfortunately, Youtube videos were a challenge I needed to tackle at a later date for this very reason.

I presented to Sunbiscuit and she was very impressed and surprised! Unfortunately, she runs a busy life between being a freelancer and an animator for a Youtube channel, so she couldn't work with me to get it up and running, which is understandable. She appreciated the offer and effort I put in and in the end, that's what matters most in situations like these!