Project Description
Ten years into my career, and this is my first real portfolio. Not because I didn't have the work — but because my standards for my own site were always higher than what I could build. Templates never felt right. Now, with Figma Make and Claude, I finally built exactly what I had in mind.
Project
Portfolio website
Client
hihuydo
Services
UI/UX, Web Development, Branding
Role
Designer & Developer
Year
2026
Status
LAUNCHED
The brief
A portfolio that looks and feels the way I want. A custom CMS built from scratch that fits my exact needs. And a project that forced me to go deep into territory I'd never touched before — databases, backend logic, hosting, deployment.
The work
I designed and built everything myself: from the visual identity to the frontend to a fully custom content management system backed by Supabase. It was my first real dive into the technical side of building a product, and honestly? I loved it. AI made a lot of it possible, but there were still late nights, rabbit holes, and plenty of moments where things just didn't work. Every decision, every feature, every fix: mine. The site is currently at Figma Make version 514 — and I'm still finding things to improve.
The result
A portfolio I'm actually proud of. But honestly, the bigger win is everything I learned along the way — about building products, not just designing them.
