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Mikayla Buford's Design Portfolio

WEBSITE DESIGN    2022

Mikayla Buford is a design researcher, creative technologist and integrative designer who needed a more professional portfolio that matched her personality. Since she's a skilled developer, I created the design so she could build the final site with code.

 

KEY PROJECT ROLES:

  • Organized site structure and content placement

  • Created style guide detailing the visual elements of the website, including colors, type selection & hierarchy, etc.

  • Designed each page submitted as an annotated mockup detailing styles for typography, backgrounds, images, etc. 

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Kind Words

"I am so thankful that I hired Elizabeth to help me redesign my website. She is a great collaborator and visual designer. Working with Elizabeth was a more productive, enjoyable, and successful process than when I used to work on my website alone."

Mikayla Buford

DESIGN RESEARCHER, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST, INTEGRATIVE DESIGNER

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THE FUN STUFF

Design Deliverables

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BEHIND THE SCENES

The Process

1

Review Current Portfolio

As I studied Mikayla's old site, a few things stood out to me: she has a cool and unique style (did you see that futuristic curvy font she used? Rad.), she has a ton of impressive projects and experience that needed to be showcased more, and her personality wasn't coming across.

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2

Wireframing

I like to begin each project with simple black and white wireframes. Stripping back the colors, fonts and imagery helps us to organize the information well and focus on a great layout.

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3

Pick Type Combos + Color Palette

I played with several bold display typefaces paired with something more readable for paragraph text (something I felt was lacking in the original design). In addition to exploring some "grainy gradient" backgrounds per Mikayla's request, I created some "8-bit" flat design patterns after being inspired by her digital art — and that is what won her heart for the final design!

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