Sixteen incredible portfolio websites

(The last one is baller)

I love looking at personal / portfolio websites for inspiration. Unlike company or agency websites, personal websites often have a lot more personality and creativity. I’ve been collecting a folder of bookmarks of my favourite ones and wanted to share them.

Now that we’re all at home a lot more, I know many UX designers are updating their portfolios and case studies. If that’s you, you can use the below list for inspiration.

These 16 sites are presented in no particular order. They are all UX / product design portfolios, apart from a couple of developer websites and blogs. All have amazing standard of design and great readability.

1. Meagan Fisher (https://owltastic.com/)
   Meagan uses two colours throughout to keep the whole site feeling really on-brand. This is paired with a cool space/astrology/astrolabe theme. I love the subtle rotational animations throughout the site. I also love how simple it all is — it’s a one-pager, where the case studies link out to Medium write-ups and the CTAs scroll to the contact form at the bottom. So clean!
2. Jay Clark (https://jay-clark.co.uk/)
   I recommend Jay’s site to everyone as a master-class in writing a simple case-study. There’s no bs: he focusses concisely on the value he brought to the project and the measurable impact resulting from that. He just dives right in. From a design perspective, I also love that the middle section of the three has an alternate colour background, which helps break it up from being a long wall of text.
3. Gabriel Contassot (https://www.gabrielcontassot.com/)
   Just opening this site again now, I forgot how damn elegant it is. The copy is also great, it very quickly gives you a sense of what Gabriel is like; he’s a: “French guy with an eye for graphic design and anything digital.” My favourite thing here is the custom cursor, and how it interacts with the pictures and the initials at the top.
4. Arjun Menon (https://arjun1am.com/)
   Arjun has a beautiful site with great typography, and really detailed (but still very readable) case study write-ups. You can tell the site is well-coded too: there’s a ton of cool interactions, including a 3D iPhone, a magnetic cursor and cool loading transitions between thee pages, but…