🎨 My Portfolio – Fehin Awobodu

🌱 What Inspired Me

This portfolio was inspired by my desire to create a digital space that truly reflects who I am — not just as a designer, but as a creative problem-solver, teammate, and lifelong learner. I wanted it to go beyond showing static work and actually demonstrate how I think, what I care about, and how I approach design with curiosity, empathy, and experimentation.

I also wanted it to be fun. Portfolios are often rigid or templated — but I saw an opportunity to inject a bit of personality into mine. The kind of place where someone might come for the work, but stay for the easter eggs.

🛠️ How I Built It

I designed the full experience in Figma, from wireframes to high-fidelity UI, while leveraging components and auto-layout to stay flexible. I developed it in Webflow, customizing interactions and adding bits of custom code (like my cursor effect and audio easter egg feature) to bring the design to life.

Key tools used:

• Figma
  
• Webflow
  
• GSAP (for animations)
  
• JavaScript (custom cursor, scroll behavior)

💡 What I Learned

• That simplicity is powerful — the hardest part was knowing what not to include.
  
• Animations and interactions should serve the content, not distract from it.
  
• Even in a personal project, user experience comes first — I did multiple rounds of informal testing with friends and mentors to get honest feedback.

🚧 Challenges I Faced

• Balancing playfulness with professionalism — I wanted the site to be memorable but still communicate value clearly to potential employers.
  
• Performance on mobile — custom interactions sometimes slowed down load times, and optimizing them required some rework.
  
• Perfectionism — there’s always something I want to tweak, but I learned to embrace the idea of shipping and evolving over time.

Built With

• figma
• gsap
• html/css
• javascript
• webflow