What Should a Personal Website Answer First?
Work, writing and collaboration inquiries can coexist on one website. The key is the order in which visitors encounter them.
Give Visitors a Direction First
First-time visitors usually want to know who you are, what you care about and what is worth exploring. The first screen should establish direction with a positioning statement and a brief explanation, then offer one main entry point.
This version uses Explore my work as its main button and retains writing and contact navigation. This is an initial design choice to revisit based on actual visitor tasks.
Use Work to Provide Concrete Context
Selected work follows on the homepage, taking visitors from abstract positioning to concrete content. It need not list everything. Start with examples that represent the direction and provide enough context for each.
Two explorations were created here: website information design and an interactive trade-off tool. One demonstrates content hierarchy; the other lets readers explore how priorities change an approach. They are demonstrations built for this website, not prior commercial results.
Let Writing Show How You Think
Work can answer what you have done; writing can answer how you think. Good writing separates research findings, the author's inferences and missing evidence so readers can make their own judgments.
Offer a Clear Next Step
The contact section should explain what is worth discussing, what information helps start a conversation and how to get in touch. Without a receiving channel, visitors must not be led to believe a form has been sent.
This version links to my LinkedIn profile and provides a browser-based discussion brief tool that explicitly sends and stores nothing. Visitors can copy the brief and start a conversation themselves. LinkedIn messaging depends on sign-in and account permissions; opening a profile does not mean a message has been received.