Page Builder

Handle: @julesmakes (same on most platforms).
One-line bio: Ceramicist in Porto. New drops most months.
What I most want clicked: the shop, then the newsletter.

About me

Shop: https://julesmakes.example  — primary, always on top.
Newsletter: https://julesmakes.example/newsletter  — monthly, new pieces + studio notes.
Instagram: https://instagram.example/julesmakes  — most active here.
YouTube: https://youtube.example/@julesmakes  — studio process videos, irregular.
Latest video: [add the current video URL]  — feature this when there's a new one.
Email: hello@julesmakes.example  — for commissions and wholesale.

My links

Label links in plain words: "Shop," "Newsletter," "Latest video" — not raw URLs.
Lead with the shop. Newsletter second. Social after that.
Keep the bio to one line. No hashtags in the bio.
Feature one link at a time at the top when there's something new (a drop, a video).

Style notes

Direction: calm, handmade, gallery-quiet — the page should feel like the studio, not a marketing landing page.

Layout: single centered column, max width around 480px, comfortable on a phone. Round avatar at top, name, one-line bio, then a vertical stack of full-width link buttons with generous vertical spacing and large tap targets (at least 56px tall).

Typography: a warm serif (Fraunces or Tiempos) for the name, clean sans (Inter) for the bio and button labels. Button labels at a readable 16-18px.

Palette: soft clay background (#F3ECE4), ink text (#1E1B17), one terracotta accent (#B5532A) for button borders and the active/featured link. No pure white, no pure black.

Buttons: flat, thin 1px border in the ink color, fully rounded corners, no drop shadows or gradients. The featured top link gets the terracotta border to stand out. Hover/press: gentle fill, no bounce.

Visual style

Traid

One page for all your links — like Linktree. A tappable list of your profiles, shop, and latest work, made to drop into your social bio.

Links in Bio

Gallery Builder

Collection Recall

What I make: photographs — mostly portraits and travel, with a smaller personal series.
Collections I'm using: Portraits, Travel, Personal.
What I want this to be: a clean portfolio I can send to clients and link from my bio.
Lead with: the portrait work — that's what I want hired for.

About my work

Each line: image URL — collection — caption.

* https://picsum.photos/seed/portrait-mira/600/800 — Portraits — Mira, studio window light
* https://picsum.photos/seed/portrait-band/600/800 — Portraits — The band, before the show
* https://picsum.photos/seed/travel-lisbon/800/600 — Travel — Alfama rooftops at dusk
* https://picsum.photos/seed/travel-train/800/600 — Travel — Night train to Porto
* https://picsum.photos/seed/personal-kitchen/700/700 — Personal — Sunday morning, my kitchen
* [add image URL] — Portraits — My strongest portrait — put this first

My work

Lead with the strongest work — first impression is the first row.
Captions short: a name, a place, or a moment. One line. No hashtags.
Let the images breathe — they carry the page, not the text.
Collections are optional filters over one wall. Skip them if the set is small.

Direction: quiet, image-first — the work does the talking. The wall should feel like a portfolio, not a busy app.

Layout: masonry grid that preserves each image's aspect ratio. One column on a phone, two on a tablet, three to four on a wide screen. Even gutters around 16px. If there are collections, show them as a simple row of text chips above the wall; otherwise no chrome at all.

Cards: image with rounded corners and a thin caption line below in muted ink. No heavy borders. On hover, a gentle lift; no zoom-crop, no overlay clutter.

Typography: clean sans (Inter) throughout. Captions at 13-14px in a muted gray (#6B6660). Collection chips in small caps.

Palette: warm off-white background (#FAF7F2), ink for text (#1E1B17), one muted sage accent (#5E7361) for the active collection chip. No pure white, no pure black, no drop shadows beyond the soft hover lift.

A Pinterest-style masonry gallery of your work. Lay out your best images in a flowing grid to share as your portfolio.

Portfolio Gallery

Designer

Design Advisor

What I do: I design brand work — logos, icons, social posts, the odd poster — mostly for small businesses and side projects.
What I want this to be: a fast way to draw and try out marks before I commit, all kept on-brand.
The brand I'm working on right now: Fern & Co, a neighborhood coffee roaster. Warm, calm, a little earthy.

Brand: Fern & Co — coffee roaster.

Palette:
- Ink #1E1B17 (text, primary mark)
- Sage #5E7361 (accent)
- Clay #C46B45 (highlight, sparingly)
- Cream #FAF7F2 (background)

Fonts:
- Headings: Fraunces (a warm serif)
- Body and labels: Inter

Logo direction: a simple fern frond, or the letters F&C, drawn with a single confident weight. Should work as a one-color stamp on a cup.
Motifs I keep coming back to: ferns, steam, a single bean, rounded corners.
Tagline (optional, not final): "Roasted close to home."

My brand

Keep it simple — one strong shape beats a busy one. It has to read as a tiny cup stamp and as a big sign.
One weight, clean lines. No gradients, no drop shadows, no fake 3D.
Two colors at most on a mark; let cream do the breathing room.
When I ask for a logo, show me a few directions, not one. Lead with the strongest.
Corners slightly rounded, never sharp. Friendly, not corporate.

Direction: warm, calm, hand-made-but-tidy. The work should feel like a small roaster's brand, not a tech logo.

Marks: built from simple geometric shapes — a frond, a bean, a curl of steam, clean letterforms. One consistent stroke weight. Flat color only. A mark should hold up at favicon size and on a storefront sign alike.

Sets (icons, stickers, a poster series): keep the same weight, corner radius, and padding across every piece so they read as one family. Show the whole set together on the cream background so I can judge them as a group.

Layout: generous whitespace, the work centered and given room. Cream background (#FAF7F2), ink for line work (#1E1B17), sage (#5E7361) as the accent, clay (#C46B45) only as a small highlight. No pure white, no pure black, no shadows.

Type in the work: Fraunces for anything display, Inter for labels. Keep text minimal — the mark carries it.

Logos, icon sets, posters, and social graphics from your brand notes. Describe what you need and get clean vector work you can drop anywhere — kept consistent with your palette and fonts.

Graphic Designer

Deck Builder

Talk Coach

What I do: independent data consultant. I help mid-size retailers make sense of their sales data.
Current project: a six-week engagement with a grocery chain, building their first demand forecast.
Talks I give: intro pitch to prospective clients, monthly status updates to current clients, and an occasional meetup talk about practical forecasting.
The one thing every talk should land: forecasting is not magic, it is plumbing. Good inputs, boring models, honest error bars.

What I present about

Client pitches: operations managers and finance leads. Smart, busy, allergic to hype. Lead with their problem, not my method.
Status updates: the people who hired me plus their boss. They want progress, blockers, and what I need from them. No filler.
Meetup talks: practitioners. They want the real numbers and the failure stories.

Tone everywhere: plain, direct, lightly dry. No buzzwords. Numbers over adjectives.

Audience and tone

Results I can cite:
- Grocery chain pilot: forecast error down from 31% to 14% on the top 200 SKUs in four weeks.
- Previous client (garden supply): cut overstock write-offs by about a fifth in one season.
- Typical engagement: six weeks, fixed scope, weekly check-ins.

Things I never claim: revenue lifts I cannot trace, accuracy below 10%, or anything about a client I have not asked permission to name.

Material and numbers

Direction: calm and confident. The deck should feel like a clear-headed memo, not a sales sizzle reel.

Background: near-black (#101418). Text: warm off-white (#F2EFEA). One accent: amber (#E8A13C) for the headline keyword and the progress bar only.

Type: oversized headlines, one short line of support text, generous empty space. No bullet walls. A slide with one sentence on it is a good slide.

Never: clip art, stock photos, more than five numbers on a slide.

Turn your notes into presentations you give from a link. Slide decks built from what you already wrote, with coaching on structure, timing, and speaker notes.

Presentation Creator

Site Recall

Where: Lisbon, originally from Bangalore.
What I do: independent product designer. I take small teams from "we have an idea" to "we shipped v1," then hand it off.
Currently: building a side project (a tiny tool for tracking research interviews) and taking on one client at a time.
One-liner: I help small teams ship their first real product without losing the plot.
Longer bio: I have been designing software for twelve years, the last six independently. Before that, I led design at a logistics startup that got acquired. I care about clear writing, honest interfaces, and shipping on time.

Home: short intro, current focus, link to work and writing.
About: longer bio, how I got here, what I care about, a recent photo.
Work: selected projects with one paragraph each and an outcome line.
Writing: index of posts, newest first.
Contact: email, a short note about what I respond to, and what I do not.
Now: short "what I am doing this month" page, updated when it changes.

Pages on the site

- Fieldnote (2025-present) - solo project. A tool for product researchers to log and tag interviews. Public beta. Built with a designer friend.
- Ostra Logistics (2019-2023) - design lead. Took the dispatcher app from a spreadsheet to a product. Acquired in 2023.
- Plover Health (2018) - contract. Designed the intake flow for a small telehealth clinic. Still in use.
- Various small client work (2023-present) - one client at a time. Mostly first-version product design for two to six person teams.

Projects and work

Voice: plainspoken, first person, no marketing tone. I write like I am talking to a smart friend.
Length: home page short. About page medium. Project blurbs one paragraph each.
Headlines: descriptive, never clickbait. "What I am working on" not "Unlocking my next chapter."
Words I avoid: "passionate," "leverage," "synergy," "journey," "unlock," "obviously," "just."
Always include on the home page: what I do, who I do it for, what I am working on now, how to reach me.
Always include on project pages: the problem, what I did, the outcome (or current status), one image if I have one.

Direction: editorial / long-form. The site should read like a small magazine someone designed for themselves, not a portfolio template.

Typography: Fraunces (or Tiempos Headline) for h1 and h2, set tight and a little oversized. Inter for body at 18-19px with generous line-height (1.65). JetBrains Mono for code and for small-caps eyebrows above section headings.

Palette: warm off-white background (#FAF7F2), ink for body (#161513), one accent oxblood (#6B1E1E) used only for links and the eyebrow rule. No pure white, no pure black.

Layout: single column on mobile, asymmetric on desktop — body column around 640px, pulled slightly left of center, with a narrow right margin reserved for footnote-style margin notes and dates. Oversized h1 (around 64-72px desktop). Small-caps monospace eyebrow above each major section. Wide vertical rhythm between sections.

Signature detail: footnote-style margin notes in the right gutter (small monospace, oxblood) and a single hand-drawn underline on inline links. No drop shadows, no gradients, no rounded marketing cards, no three-up feature grids.

Turn your bio, projects, and writing into composed pages for a personal website. Home, about, work, writing, and contact pages you can drop into WordPress or any site builder.