Portfolio Review: Is This Portfolio Too Creative?

Reviewing freelance designer Nikita Merge's extremely unique portfolio website.

This is an interesting one because its layout and functionality are very very far off from what you'd usually see. Lots of innovation here which is incredibly refreshing and exciting.

I did have a couple gripes with it though. Some parts confused me a tad (which I discuss in the video).

Let me know your thoughts on Nikita's portfolio website!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Going over the website
4:27 My feedback

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Thanks for watching the video!

[abirahmed]

I remember once you made a video on "Is every website looks same or boring" and you said it is okay to do that because the user expects familiarity. So according to your that video you should completely avoid such designs which confuse users even if it looks very different.

Anyone can make a unique design but very few can make a unique and functional design

Thanks for sharing great videos and I hope you will keep doing it :)

[MuhammadYamman]

It’s really really complex. It looks good but lacks functionality.

[dhineshvm]

Just take off all the negative parts

This website has a lot of super Innovative stuffs.
- Landing Page Animation

- Page Loader Animation

- Out of the box Header Menu (In fact multiple Menu's inside)

- Super Creative Testimonial Section (As Ran mentioned)

- Work Review Section Mockup Effects (Imagine this section alone as a separate website, it has a lot of creative stuffs implemented in this section)


- Service Section, a must mention (Look at the scroll over animation effects and transitions after a click)

- About section (Slider menu <3)

*From a Learner's perspective :*

This is actually not a single website.
This website is a Library of websites with which we can develop hundreds of unique super cool looking websites, that is gonna put that "Ahaa moments" for the viewers :D

[mapachasolutions]

The portfolio has too much sauce UX is totally forgotten

[m.design]

Testimonials looks fantastic! Are you kidding me, Ran? Nobody would have idea to hover on the bunch of portrait photos. It's just a bunch of photos - it could be team members, it could be anything!

[mdabullais]

Design and concept —9.5/10
Functionality —7/10
Easy to understand UI —5/10

[gaminwithgc]

Flash sites have returned while Flash is about to die.

This was a huge problem with Flash sites: poor navigational structure that doesn't meet any user's mental model.

[ChatClussman]

It’s beautiful and unique and if he collaborates with a UX designer, they’ll be unstoppable.

[AKHILPOKLE]

"Don't make me think".

The portfolio looks awesome, but I have to think alot to navigate..

[Go_Places]

He broke out of temple and the website is beautiful and creative, thats right. If he could manage to combine all this with simplicity and make user experience easier, i would call him a genius! :))

[younlogiudice]

The UI looks good. However I totally agree.. the UX is not quite there yet. As you discovered the page I felt pretty uncomfortable. I got absolutely lost :/

[meaganmccomiskey]

The idea is good, just needs to find that balance between creative ideas and simplicity. The contrast, especially for the project menu is very low. My first portfolio was trash so this one has some good things going for it.

[jiisokyun]

I've seen these kind of web designs 8-10 years ago.
If I'm a client, wasting my time navigating that website would signal me to turn down the deal.
Over complex design looks good but time is more important.

[sauravk]

The site looks great but I can see some design issues on my desktop. Some text overlap and I can see scrollbar on the bottom.

[hirusha_deshan]

Thanks, Ran. Appreciate these kinds of videos, so I can get some design inspiration 😃

[aakashtaneja]

Please explain how its build in webflow

[furkancelik]

its really cool but i had dizziness after seeing interactions on the site

[normthomasmarketing]

An interesting website. You can see really great design and Webflow skills. It is work to click in and out. I would say based on what I learn from you is I don’t see who he can solve problems for. Or what is his USP. So a lot of me. Not some much you the potential client. I also feel the design is dark feeling or mysterious. That is subjective though. The last part.

[alexminenko]

So this was made with Webflow? And additional code I think? I'm not familiar with webflow platform, but I suppose that there are a lot of opportunities for developers to code and transform the templates, aren't there?

By the way, could you please review the websites on Tilda platform? And maybe compare them, because its quite popular on Post-Soviet territories.

[MegaWookie]

I'm giving away my age here, but it reminds me of the 'Flash' days...