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What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?

My personal website is in need of a redesign but inspiration has not yet struck me. Everyone on hacker news reads a lot or at least visits lots of diverse websites, so post your favorite designs here and hopefully we can all be inspired!

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I like Derek Sivers's personal website. It is clean, easy-to-read, and has good spacing.

http://sivers.org/

Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com. While the design is interesting, the content is killer.

Second this! Here's a good post about how it works:

http://www.arcfn.com/2011/12/javascript-secrets-of-worrydrea...

Certainly a very engaging design for a personal portfolio

are you kidding me?

the page doesn't even scroll using the mousewheel or amy possible key (arrows, space, pageupqdown). i have to use the tiny scrollbar on the right.

I'm using chrome on win 7.

completely unusable.

This is clearly by design, try clicking on something (and then scrolling!) to navigate the site like intended.

poor design decision, in my opinion...

say i don't want to click on whatever is above the fold... that's it, i'm out of the site.

even after i click, the only way to navigate is using the arrows on the sides

Yeah, and it is clearly a fucking idiotic design. Breaking a basic navigation feature that works as intended in every other application and web page for the sake of "design" is not a good thing.

I agree it's bad design IF it were a consumer/business site. But remember, this is a personal site. Anything goes, and I think he knows better than to do this on a commercial site.

What on earth does a "personal site" have anything to do with a design being good? It's just as broken on a personal site as it is on a business site. It breaks an established, 20 year old user interface expectation and greatly hinders the usability of the page.

It makes no sense and there is no excuse for it.

because a personal site is a sandbox where you can experiment. It doesn't have to fit a mold. Same thing with an artist who is doing their own thing vs an artist who is paid to create a design for a company. You wouldn't tell the artist to paint a certain way because that's the way it's done commercially. Same thing here.

...And what does that have to do with this? Sure, experiment all you want with your personal website, but it doesn't change the fact that the site being more "experimental" does not excuse the utterly idiotic and completely broken scrolling/scrollbar UI. It's a piece of shit and it makes the site very difficult to use on a desktop browser. This has nothing to do with "fitting a mold": it has everything to do with _basic functionality_. It's a completely failed "experiment". End of story.

You obviously have a better design sense and much more experience than someone who has been at Apple for the long haul designing UI/UX and has won the Apple Design Award! I hear that's not credible at all.

Nice appeal to authority. This nonsense coming from an _Apple designer_ only makes it worse.

yes, he's going to go very far in this world. I can tell.

Chrome on OSX allows for scrolling, but is VERY very slow.

Codrops (awesome site btw) posted a roundup of nice websites recently:

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/18/a-creative-year-disti...

I'm in the middle of redesigning my portfolio page. This is where I am so far: http://claudesutterlin.com

it's nothing great but if you're interested in building off of it I'll share the code.

I love the simplicity of your site. Looks great.

i'm also in the process of creating a personal portfolio site. so far i got: http://muellerwolfram.prtfl.io/about

also, i think that creating a personal website is such a common use case that as a side project, i'm creating a saas webapp for creating portflio sites. checkout http://prtfl.io in coming weeks.

here you have mine, http://www.victordiazbarrales.com, still working on it but its getting there! :)

multiple designs - UI patterns http://patterntap.com/

i like this http://cirw.in/blog/lspace

Awesome, thanks guys!

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