For designers, more than any other profession, a website isn't just an online portfolio, it's a distillation of who you are creatively, professionally and even personally. Are you serious, academic or more laid back? Are you more digital or handmade DIY? The stakes are high, but rightfully so. Color, text, typeface—these are the tools of the trade as well as the means of conveying what a designer can do with them.
So what does French designer Fanette Mellier's website say about her? She has one of those user friendly/unfriendly sites, the kind that seem intuitive but make you work a little harder to access the information therein, because first you have to figure out the site itself. There are no instructions, no "my name is Fanette, I'm a designer and here is my work." It's more like a friendly game of cat and mouse. Click on a link and you're rewarded with a pop-up window. Click on the image in the window and you get a new image (no arrows to guide you forward and backwards) as well as text (in French) detailing each project.
