Thank you for stopping by, this is my new portfolio that I built with NextJS and Sanity.

Welcome to my new portfolio

Ok, so it has been many MANY months since I launched this blog, after years of planning and the eventual build of this portfolio with a blog space, I have been terrible with getting around to writing an actual blog and adding new content.

Firstly, I am fearful and have been procrastinating adding here, I am not a content writer, and being faced with using my words has pushed me out of my comfort zone, maybe this will be what I need to start writing.

Secondly, there are still quite a few things unfinished on the site, a bug here and there, but mainly the design and the build of the blog page which at the time of writing is not how I intend it to look.

Thirdly, work has been pretty busy, my mentor and boss left so there has been a lot of learning as the team steps up and attempts to fill his shoes and get accustomed to the new way of working.

Finally, after a few years of working in tech, I am clearer in the direction I want my career to go, and I am now trying to steer my learning in that direction for the eventuality that in a few years when my time at Grace Papers comes to an end, I'll be ready for it.

I have been working on building my own Design System, my goals have been to understand, design, build, host, and maintain a Design System

For those of you that may not know what that is, a Design System is something an organisation uses to guide and help developers build products quickly, it is a library of all the parts needed when building an application, complete with instructions on how to customise (i.e colours, sizes) and implement the code in the project.

I have made quite a bit of progress, unfortunately is doesnt look like it yet on the page because a lot of the pre build work has been designing the language in Figma, and recently moving onto building and archictecting the project.

So while I've done a lot, at the moment it only looks like a few buttons.

Not yet? But it is hosted and live behind its own domain, and once the dashboard is put together a bit better, I plan to just quietly let it out.

Well then reach out to me and I'll share it

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