Overview
Portfolio 1.0 was my first attempt at creating a personal space for my development, design and creative work.
I built it with Astro, focusing on a simple structure that lets the work take priority while still showing some personality through interaction, typography and motion.
The site became a place where I could collect projects that normally sit across very different areas — from web development and creative coding to 3D and visual experiments.
Designing around the work
The homepage is built around a Selected Work section, using interactive project cards that reveal more information before leading into the full case study.
I wanted browsing the portfolio to feel a little more playful than scrolling through a static list, while still keeping every project easy to reach and understand.
Each project then gets its own page where I could document the idea, development process, final outcome and what I learned from building it.
More than a project gallery
I also added a personal Journal for shorter posts about topics I was exploring, including color, motion, 3D and composition.
This gave the site a second purpose: not only showing finished work, but also documenting the things I was learning along the way.
Separate RSS feeds for projects and journal posts were included so the site’s content could also be followed outside the portfolio itself.
Building with Astro
I chose Astro as the foundation for the site and used it to structure the portfolio around reusable pages and content.
The project helped me move beyond building individual experiments and think about how multiple projects, articles and shared UI components fit together inside one website.
It was also my first experience building and maintaining a portfolio as a product of its own rather than treating it simply as a collection of links.
Outcome
Portfolio 1.0 became the first complete version of my online creative identity.
More importantly, building it showed me what I wanted to improve in the next version — stronger storytelling, better project presentation and a clearer connection between my technical and creative work.
It became the foundation for the portfolio I continued developing afterwards.