Design personal website from scratch from @ciaragan

The creator documents her journey of designing a personal website from scratch as part of a monthly creative challenge. She shares her inspiration process using her bedroom art wall, demonstrates the design tools she uses (Readymag and Procreate), and showcases the initial results of her landing page and animated menu elements.

Creator: @ciaragan on Instagram

Video format

Vlog

Video outline

  1. Ponder existential question
  2. Find physical inspiration
  3. Set creative challenge
  4. Digitize physical assets
  5. Reveal interactive prototype

Hook overview

The 'Free Will' Epiphany: Starting with a relatable, slightly absurd existential realization to grab attention before grounding it.

Title hook

girl discovers she has free will lol

Verbal hook

Today, I was a little bored and I started to wonder and wonder and wonder what would be an excellent use of my free will and where can I get inspiration for that?

Visual hook

A girl stands stiffly in the center of her bedroom before dramatically flopping backwards onto her bed.

Hook strategies

  1. transformation-payoff

Payoff

The Interactive Prototype Showcase: Revealing the functional result of the work, specifically highlighting the interactivity (hover effects) to prove success.

Narrative framework

The Inspiration-to-Execution Arc

Narrative framework logic

Transforming a whimsical existential thought into a tangible project by translating physical environment into digital design.

Narrative framework breakdown

  • frameworkName: The Inspiration-to-Execution Arc
  • frameworkType: Standard Narrative
  • coreLogic: Transforming a whimsical existential thought into a tangible project by translating physical environment into digital design.
  • confidence: 95
  • pendingStatus: created

Topics: Web Design, Art, Creator, Design

Concepts: Journey Documentation, Value Vlog, Process

Formats: Vlog

Elements: Screen Recording, Voiceover, Text Overlay

Account types: Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

Today, I was a little bored and I started to wonder and wonder and wonder what would be an excellent use of my free will and where can I get inspiration for that? So I looked around my room and thought my art ball is literally full of inspiration and that's when tier clicked. I'm gonna make a website out of my room and this 2025 I'm gonna do one creative thing a month. This month's challenge is designing my own website from scratch. Right now I'm using ready bad. It's a browser best design tool with so many fun templates. I browse through a bunch of portfolios and the vibe that I'm going for is personal scrapbooking handwritten kind of like flipping through a digital diary. We're gonna start with the landing page. My goal is to make it feel like the inside of my brain and I literally scanned pieces from my art wall to drop them in. Then of worse, I've played around with positioning, opacity tier the tools make it really easy to animate. I also wanted to add rank infinite scrolling text better I'm not gonna start coding right now and luckily, ready bad has a widget for it. Then, I drew these little playing cards to act as the menu for the other pages. They're not populated yet but l

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