God i hate this style.

All the feedback here shows me is that everyone on this site is super bitter, and not very open to new styles unless it's by a "pioneer"

So many people on this website could use a short course in graphic design to see that none of this is new, that just by labeling everything that doesn't look like your favorite website "brutalism" and "against "traditional" design (what the hell is this? We've seen design change so much in the last decade alone) makes you look like someone who would be a terrible designer to work under or have as a mentor because you think aesthetics have a right and wrong answer, as opposed to being a case by case basis, meant to fit the audience.

Wow everyone's a jerk. This is nice mate, i like the layout a lot.

I'm going to give honest critical feedback. This personal site would work better if it weren't attempting to be brutalist. Brutalist design isn't inherently bad. There's been some interesting brutalist work that's done some really interesting things. Your site however, is structured in a very traditional way. You've simply made your name larger and awkwardly placed, force justified your nav and used the trendy straight web blue. Other than that there's nothing brutalist about this. There's no breaking of the grid, overlapping and layering of content, pushing the boundaries of typography. There's no dimensionality at all, it's completely flat. Really you've just produced a traditional full screen section product page and lazily applied brutalist window dressing to appear "edgy".

I'm all for people trying new things, and the only thing I take from brutalism is it's about pushing boundaries and rejecting the formalization of web and product design. So you need to pick a side, are you going to push boundaries and show us something new or just make another flat modernist portfolio?

Bunch of dorks in this post! The site is sick and obviously leans to the types of clients Bobby's aiming for. Not everyone wants to design UI for SaaS companies.

Just a head's up, the outlook.com link in the work section links to rotate.am.

wow nice colours

A E S T H E T I C S

Nailed it. Get people talking, be different.

Love it! Has a strong vibe to it

One recommendation is to make that portrait.gif into a video and stream it. I'm currently on an average internet connection (40 Mbps) and that 6.2 MB gif literally took me a minute to download.

Or, since you're a front-end dev, I'm pretty sure there's way you can "code the glitch" which would be more impressive anyway, e.g., https://codemyui.com/image-glitch-effect-using-opengl-shading-language/

In actual criticism, fix the link to your second case study, make the word case study clickable or don't include them until they're done.

Well, I hate this style. Others love it. I can't tell anything about the execution because the elements that make this style cannot be creative, otherwise the style wouldn't be it. And I cannot see this font anymore. I know it's not Roboto, but it looks like it / it tries to look like it. But that's all subjective. I don't want to come of as having the intention to shame you, because I truly believe that in order to be a successful designer (in the meaning of what most people mean by that), you either have to have a ton of attention on you or you have to do it like everyone else does. And you are trying to fit in, I just hope you are aware of that - you might not even be like that in person, but your brand certainly gives me that vibe. I truly just thought you might wanna know that.

I will say though, that I find it a bit disappointing that you didn't use CSS Grid to solve your navigation. It would have made your markup prettier and a tiny bit more semantic - actually, this would make a perfect example of "solved by CSS grid".

The mobile site ( iPhone 6 ) looks broken. Nothing happens when you tap on the " case study " text or the links . And there are no images displayed. Saw the gif with the desktop version and the difference is huge in terms of how they look .

Looks great, but with some issues on an iPhone SE in Safari.

That's ill

Just FYI, on ,mobiles the lack of imagery makes for a fairly bland user experience.

Style aside, because it's clearly a fairly objective thing, I think that you should reevaluate the design for small screens :)

I like what you have going on visually, but I'd question the value of how you're currently displaying your work. Take Outlook Mobile for instance. I know what the product itself is, but what I'd want to get out of a portfolio, or even a work history sentence on a resume, is what you contributed to it. Linking to the outlook site doesn't provide me value, or tell me anything about your process, what work you've done, etc...

Dope site bro, lets hop back on Skype sometime haha

it's not a mater of being a pioneer but I like the bottom and don't like the top .

I think it's a little bit too trendy for your everyday client. But sometimes you have to get your ideas out there if you feel strongly about them.

It did give you a lot of attention by being 'controversial', so gg dude.

I've only viewed this on mobile so can't comment how it works elsewhere.

The headline font you're using looks warped, I'm not a fan of it. The blue is very generic, it's used everywhere - what makes this profile (and you as a designer) stand out from the hundreds others that use this style?

Whats the purpose of the flashing play icons? Are these to represent links because none of your case study 'links' go anywhere?

Your outlook.com link goes to rotate.am btw

Looks nice. Reminds me of the style acnestudios.com is using.