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2025.02.25

Portfolio Review

Interaction and motion design in front-end projects, collected from the past five years.

Table of Contents

  1. Fuzzco
    1. Eastfork
    2. Evidation
    3. Toba
  2. SmugMug
    1. smugmug.com
    2. RAW Photo Storage
  3. Stucco Software
    1. Joseki Party
    2. Super Imposer 3000
    3. Site Emulator
    4. The Basement
    5. Ecosystem Machine

Fuzzco

Playfulness & Flavor

Eastfork

East Fork logotype animating on scroll
On scroll, the letter of the logotype shifted and changed to illustrations of pottery.
https://fuzzco.com
Scrolling through the East Fork homepage
A reduced overview of the homepage; many elements had colorful overflay effects on hover.
https://fuzzco.com

Evidation

Evidation homepage nav and hero interactions
Layered and multiple nav/hero interactions with smooth scroll reveals and transitions.
https://archive.org
Animated Evidation logo in the site footer
Envisioned as a kind of mascot, the Eviadtion logo took agency in the site footer.
https://archive.org

Toba

Toba Capital volcano logo with a game of Snake in the lava
From subtle shifting gradient rules to an over-excitable volcano logo, we put a game of Snake in to the lava flowing from the eruption.
https://archive.org

SmugMug

Content & Marketing

smugmug.com

Scrolling through the SmugMug homepage
We went all-in on masonry layouts and animated UI on scroll. In retrospect it's maybe too much.
https://archive.org

RAW Photo Storage

Scrolling through the SmugMug RAW storage landing page
Dialed back a bit, but still effective for the RAW storage campaign. This was build in Webflow in close collaboration with Michael Pechardo.
https://archive.org

Stucco Software

Games & Perspectives

Joseki Party

Joseki Party Go stones rendered as gooey blobs
Subvering the traditional aesthetics of Go, starting with imagining the stones as fluid, gooey, blobs.
https://joseki-party.vercel.app/
Joseki Party blob animation indicating the active player
The blob animation became a tool for indication active player states.
https://joseki-party.vercel.app/
Joseki Party board cycling through color palettes
Breaking with tradition carried over to a variety of eye-watering color palettes.
https://joseki-party.vercel.app/

Super Imposer 3000

Super Imposer 3000 interaction
Even the simplest site can benefit from some light-hearted user interaction.
https://super-imposer.stucco.software/

Site Emulator

Exploring the site emulator graph with a little bud
Reimagining the content of this site as a physical place, the pages are visualized as a force-directed graph, and grouped by subject and topic. The digital garden is explored with a fun little bud.
https://nikolas.ws/

The Basement

Digging tunnels in the Stucco Software basement
Continuing the theme of "site-as-place", it was determined that websites should have basements. And what's more traditional to do in a basement than dig an elaborate tunnel system?
https://stucco.software/basement

Ecosystem Machine

Ecosystem Machine cellular automata animation
A static design element in a comp from Paul Pederson just begged to be animated. I built a movable-feast-machine style cellular automata in the style of Lu Wilson.
https://stucco.software/ecosystem-machine
Ecosystem Machine modeling moss growth
Now that we have a cellular automata game, it would be a shame to not use it to model a dense and complex ecosystem. Still WIP while I try and figure out how ecosystems work.
https://stucco.software/ecosystem-machine

Fin

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