References:

Bio-Bak by Coen Grit: Interactive website which forces the audience to actually engage with the artist’s work. Doubles (eventually) as a portfolio. The walkthrough at the beginning is super fun, not boring at all (unlike some games)

This is a screenshot of the landing page of bio-bak.nl. It has bird creatures flying away and a masculine hand as a cursor. The screen prompts: Dude, you should like totally view this fullscreen...and prompts the user to view the site FULL SCREEN or EMPTY SCREEN.

screenshot of bio-bak landing page.

Gov.uk: The official government webpage of the United Kingdom. One of the best/cleanest/easiest to navigate interfaces I’ve ever seen for a government site. I just checked the interface of the American/Canadian/Japanese/Taiwanese official gov’t websites, they’re actually better than I remember but get really clunky when you navigate away from the homepage. The gov.uk site is clean and consistent throughout. (State/Provincial/local-level government web pages are a joke and generally consistently bad)

adult swim: The adult swim homepage is pretty normal now (still looks pretty cool) but during special occasions will have really interesting designs. I enjoy the more experimental etcetra section, which is more sloppy and reminds me of old school net art.

Progressive and Accessible: two tumblr themes designed with accessibility/disabled people in mind. The interpretation of what to/what not to include is quite interesting here, with progressive being the more neutral one of the two and accessible has a lot of options to choose from as the blog owner. The interesting thing to me is that both have the option for the user to change options as needed, but usually another person would be the one to look at the blog--which is why I was thinking whether or not it would make sense to have options on the blog so someone could toggle, say, between font sizes or dyslexia-friendly font (weighted at the bottom).

The interesting thing about the accessible theme is that it also includes mental illness/invisible disabilities and makes it present in the form of an energy counter the blog owner can choose to make visible and change so people online can see the energy levels.

Screenshot of Progressive
Screenshot of Accessible
Content:
I would like to include:
Concept
My target audience would probably be prospective employers. However, accessibility is really important to me and would hope to convey universal design concepts to employers/those looking at my site. Simultaneously, I am very into old school/weird and experimental aesthetics, and wonder how/if that would be compatible with the very clean and simple look of accessible design. As someone who has a lot of different interests and likes to play with different ideas, I’d love to have a certain playfulness to the website while still maintaining a legibility to most/all of it. Key elements of my webpage would that it would hopefully incorporate elements of accessible/alternative format friendly webpage design. I feel that the internet has done so much in creating a more anonymous and thus open platform for a diverse range of people, and would like to show some awareness of that in the design. A key element of my site is that I would like it to be both a “professional” website yet have an element of interest (not sure what it would be yet) which would allow the website itself to be a standalone or at least interesting addition to my work, rather than just have it be a place where the work happens to sit.

Sitemap:
Landing page, with links to work (Twine, processing sketch, 3D, resume/about.) You can go back to the landing page at any time, and there would be a sidebar/top navigation to the different sections.