Reflections on Emil Kowalski's animation course and my own experiments with motion design.
This post is still in progress...
I started by recreating widgets from scratch, beginning with the music widget. Each one had its own style and autonomy, independent of the interface.
After feedback, I unified the background color to create cohesion and reduce visual noise, letting personality come through in the content and micro-interactions.
The first iteration used a two-column layout with plenty of white space, which made the main page balanced and easy to scan. I placed the key widgets at the top and arranged supporting content below. Over time, I realised I wanted to combine a “CV” style text layout with highly interactive widgets that naturally drew attention.
This became an interesting challenge: how to create a concise interface that merged two different design approaches. The result is the current version of the website, where widgets remain an important part of the design but work in support of the text.