Front-End Developer & Designer
Building clean websites, sharp interfaces, and the occasional side project.
- Building and refining russmakes.com — my personal site and creative workshop
- Designing clean, modern portfolio projects
- Expanding my UX, accessibility, and visual design skills
- Exploring digital illustration and creative workflows
| Project Idea | Description |
|---|---|
Cryptid Log |
A spooky-themed web app for tracking strange sightings (basically a note taking app) |
russmakes.com Rebuild |
Modern rebuild of my personal portfolio and workshop site |
Birthday Tracker |
A web app where you can enter birthdays and it will tell you which birthdays are coming up |
- Thoughtful UX that feels invisible
- Interfaces that feel handcrafted, not templated
- Custom typefaces and expressive typography
- Design systems with soul
- Microinteractions that make products feel alive
- Chris Piascik – vibrant chaos meets illustrative lettering
- The Good Chad – expressive hand lettering with raw character
- Will Paterson – professional logo design and typography
- Jesse Showalter – clean UX/UI meets strong brand building
- Most likely to choose a typeface based on its name.
- Writes CSS like it's going in a museum.
- Probably organizing something in Notion instead of doing it.
- Would 100% explore a haunted lighthouse.
- Listens to metal to relax.
- Once made a spreadsheet to track horror movies.
- Probably overthinking this README right now.
Pixel perfection, on the rocks.