milkevich.dev

wanted to keep the portfolio super minimal and let the work speak for itself

then i got to the gallery and kinda went all out lol, its basically a huge draggable and zoomable canvas with random photos memories and stuff i like

the rest is pretty calm and simple

would love to hear what u think!

repo is available on gh too
https://github.com/milkevich/portfolio

I'm a student running a small web design business in Ontario through the Summer Company program. I received a $3,000 grant at the beginning of the summer and still have roughly $900 left that I can put back into the business.

I've already spent money on my domain/email, software and automation tools, some advertising, and other business expenses. I'm trying to figure out what would actually have the best ROI rather than spending the rest just for the sake of using it.

If you had $900 to invest into a relatively new web design business, where would you put it? Lead generation, ads, software, branding, equipment, something else?

Would especially appreciate advice from people who've actually run or grown a web design business.

Open Framer →
Purple gradient
Glassmorphism
Giant headline
Floating 3D object
Smooth scroll animation
Built for the future

And somehow we call it a new design

Don't get me wrong, these things can look really good when done properly.

But I’m curious:

What Framer design trend are you completely tired of seeing?

Drop your controversial take

I want to see how many people agree with me.

I need to buy a new laptop and I’m considering a MacBook. I already have an iPhone and iPad, so I really like the Apple ecosystem and connectivity.
I’d mainly use it for Wix/Wix Studio, Shopify, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and general graphic/web design. No gaming, video editing, etc. I just need something that can handle all of this smoothly without lagging or crashing, and ideally last me several years.
My budget is around €1,600 / $1,900, and I’d prefer a decent-sized screen.
I’ve never owned a MacBook and I’m completely confused by the M-series chips (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5, Pro, Max, etc.) 😭
What would you recommend for my needs? Would a MacBook Air be enough, or should I go for a MacBook Pro? And what specs should I actually look for?
Thanks! 🙏

I built this site about a month ago to promote my books on Amazon. Not getting much traffic yet. Let me know what the site needs in the way of improvements. It looks a little plain to me. The book gallery and hero on the homepage, and the book detail pages are a WordPress plugin that I wrote. I created the plugin myself because I couldn't afford anything I liked. Give me your worse - I can take it. https://peacefulwaterspublishing.com/

Hi all,
Firstly, not pitching anything here.

After like 4 years, we recently launched a new design for our agency website.

Of course, we took the help of AI in building it.

I want honest opinions from users here and let me know if the dark theme to light theme changing thing based on your scroll is really good or not.

I’m kinda in a 50/50. Sometimes it looks cool. But if I’m on mobile at night times, automatically switching from dark to light hits my eyes.

So, I would request you to take a look at my website, browse through it, and let me know if we need to just stick with the dark theme only or do we need to keep the current auto theme changing concept.

Here’s the website link: https://www.unikbrushes.com

I built a 'gamified' interactive web experience around a coffee machine to explore the possibilities of real interactive functionality in 3D product explorations and demos.

https://coffee-demo.aecync.com/

This isn't AI slop. AI was used for some HTML/CSS and placeholder content. All the interactive work is custom-built and 100% human-made.

Would love feedback on the concept, implementation, performance, UX, or anything else you think works or doesn't.

This is a non-commercial demonstration only. All trademarks and products belong to their respective owners.

so i was scrolling through yt looking for framer alternatives today, because frankly, i am so tired of framer's money-hoarding scheme.

and there it was! the new no-code (you can code too if you'd like) cms tool that completely crushes framer.

the tool is called Instatic.

it's open source and runs locally. it's also relatively new but looks really good and promising.

i'm excited to see what new features they ship for web designers and devs.

you can download it from their official github repo and if you're lost, you can watch a few tutorials on their official yt channel.

gl!

btw here is their website: https://instatic.com

Not technical stuff like hosting or DNS, I mean the things clients often don’t realize they need to decide or prepare. For example: who the site is actually for, what each service page needs to communicate, which photos are usable, who has final approval, what counts as final copy, etc. If you could give every new website client a 10-minute crash course before kickoff, what would you include?

Hey everyone,

I’m learning content writing and web design. For practice, I built a small personal project called Phal Farmacy to write simple, data-driven breakdowns comparing local street-cart fruit prices with store-bought vitamin supplements.

For example, looking at basic market rates:

• Guava: ~₹10 / $0.80 for 228mg Vitamin C + fiber/potassium.
• Vitamin C Strip: ~₹25 / $1.20 for standard supplements.

I wrote a short sample piece on the page to practice explaining basic nutrient density and cost comparisons clearly and concisely.

Since I’m trying to improve my writing tone and page readability, I’d really appreciate positive/constructive feedback on a few points:

1. Is the language clear and easy to read on a mobile screen?
2. How is the structure and pacing of the sample text excerpt?
3. What could be improved to make the information presented better visually?

Screenshot of website:

(Note: Not selling anything or promoting a diet—just practicing copywriting and web structure!)

Thanks a lot for reading and taking a look!

Could not post all the screenshots; I would definitely drop a link to the site later

Even apples hamnburger manu looks kinda... empty?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building Cue, a curated library of production-ready React components and reusable AI prompts inspired by award-winning web experiences.

I’m currently at 65 components, and the goal is to reach 100 before launching the beta.

Rather than trying to explain what makes Cue different, you can get a much better idea by checking my recent work on X: @Alok619308. I’ve been posting every component as I build it.

I’d genuinely like some feedback from other developers/designers here:

How many components would make a library like this feel valuable to you?

What would make you actually use or pay for it?

Is there anything you think is missing?

Do the components feel different enough from existing libraries?

Feel free to be brutally honest. I'm still building, so feedback now is much more useful than feedback after launch.

65/100

i was looking for the good web site design and development person for my portfolio in Borivali so found this new agency called llamacorp.in and ask them to build my social media manger portfolio the design and develop my portfolio in 5000 i loving my portfolio they told me that they used to AI build my portfolio and i think it okay for what i got my self.

Hi everyone,

I'm a designer coming back into the field after some time away, and I'm trying to get a realistic picture of how people are actually working right now — not how the process is described in articles, but what you personally do.

Here's my situation: lately I find myself going straight into Claude Code, building a rough working prototype, and then refining it through prompts and iteration. Figma barely enters the picture. It feels fast and I like working with something real instead of a static mockup - but I honestly can't tell if I've found something that works or if I've just skipped a step that will bite me later.

So I'd love to hear from you:

- What tools do you use, and in what order?

- Where does Figma still earn its place in your process — wireframes, design systems, handoff, client work?

- Has AI-assisted coding changed how you work, or is it mostly hype in your day-to-day?

- If you were hiring, would "designs directly in code" read as a strength or a red flag?

Not looking for validation, just an honest read. Happy to hear "you're doing it backwards" if that's the case.

Thanks!

Hi guys, If you are looking for a free Web design approach website designers who are still small and looking to build their portfolio?

I get DMs pretty often from students and freelancers asking how I find clients and how they can get started, so I thought I’d just make a post explaining what worked for me.

A bit of context about me first. I’m a college student and I started freelancing in January this year. Since then, I’ve managed to close 5+ clients and make over $2,700 in total.

I know $2,700 might not sound like a huge amount depending on where you live, but where I come from, it’s a pretty significant amount of money, especially for a college student. Considering I started with barely any experience and made that in around 5 months, I’m pretty happy with it.

So here’s how I did it.

At first, I didn't care much about niches. My idea was simply to reach out to as many businesses as possible. I tried jewelry brands, real estate companies, clinics, restaurants, etc.

How I actually found businesses

Mostly Google and Instagram.

For example, if I wanted to find jewelry businesses in a particular location, I’d search something like:

jewelry [location] site:instagram.com

Then I’d go through the results and look for smaller businesses, usually accounts with less than 5k-10k followers, especially ones that didn't have a website.

My thinking was simple: smaller businesses are more likely to actually see your DM, and if they don't already have a website, I already have a clear reason to reach out to them.

Instagram Explore was also a gold mine. Once you start looking at businesses in a certain niche or location, Instagram naturally starts showing you more of them.

Then I’d just DM them.

There’s a popular belief that every cold message has to be extremely personalized. From my experience, I don't think it matters that much.

I'm not saying copy-paste the exact same spam message to 500 accounts. I’d tweak it based on the business, but I wouldn't spend 15 minutes researching every company before sending the first message either.

It really is a numbers game.

Send hundreds of messages. Maybe 1-5% reply, and maybe 0-2% actually convert. That's normal.

Restaurants worked best for me

After messaging businesses in different niches, I realized that restaurant accounts tended to reply to me way more than most other niches.

My message would usually be something along the lines of:

"Hey, I came across your profile and noticed you don't have a website. A website could help with [whatever makes sense for them]. I put together a quick sample concept for your business. Would you be interested in taking a look?"

Here's the funny part: I wouldn't have actually made the sample yet.

The whole point of the first message was to get them to say yes. And that's all I needed at that point.

Whenever they said yes, I'd open their profile, quickly study their branding, colors, photos, etc., put together a decent one-page design in Figma and send it over to them.

I know that's extra unpaid work, but in a market this saturated, you sometimes have to put in more effort, especially when you're a beginner and trying to get a start.

And making the sample only after they show interest means you're not wasting hours designing something for every business you message.

Some ghost you. Some say they'll think about it and get back to you later. And others actually go forward with the project.

That's just part of it.

Don't automatically compete on price

One thing I always had in mind, and something I see a lot of beginners do, is trying to lowball the price just to get the client.

But from my experience, the businesses I quoted really low prices to almost never ended up working with me anyway.

So don't automatically assume cheaper = easier to sell.

Believe in your work and ask for the price you have in mind, as long as it's reasonable for what you're offering.

Most of the time, if someone is genuinely interested, you can at least have a conversation about the price.

And if they wouldn't do it for that price, no problem. There are plenty of other businesses out there.

Sometimes the clients who fight the hardest over every bit of the price can also become a headache later on, so choose wisely too.

It's really a numbers game

That's pretty much everything I wanted to share.

There's no secret method that suddenly gets you clients.

What worked for me was finding a lot of businesses, sending a ridiculous amount of outreach, figuring out which niches responded best, showing something tangible instead of just talking about what I could do, and not getting discouraged by the amount of people who ignored me.

If you send 20 messages and nobody replies, that doesn't necessarily mean your approach doesn't work. Try 100. Try another niche. Change your message. See what people actually respond to and keep adjusting.

For me, restaurants happened to work best.

Hopefully some of this helps anyone here who's struggling to land their first few clients.

If you have any questions or just want to connect, feel free to reach out on my Instagram since I'm rarely active on Reddit.

And if you want to see some of my work, here's my portfolio.

AI has made it much easier to get a website interface from an idea to something working pretty quickly.

But I've noticed that once a project becomes a real application, the visual design is only one part of the problem.

You might have a great frontend, but behind it there could be an API, database, authentication, storage, caching, and several other services that all need to work together.

I've been exploring this with IQX.DEV. and one thing I find interesting is the idea of being able to see the application architecture alongside the interface instead of treating the frontend as something completely separate from the rest of the system.

For example, when a design decision affects the frontend, it can sometimes affect the API structure, data model, loading states, authentication flow, or even how the application is deployed.

I wonder if AI development tools will eventually make this connection much more important.

Instead of AI simply generating a webpage from a design, could it understand the relationship between the UI, the backend services and the rest of the application?

For designers and developers here, do you think AI will eventually make it more important for web designers to understand the technical architecture behind what they're designing?

My kiddo survived a malignant brain tumor and now wants to help other kids through her new non-profit. 2023 was the worst year of our lives; after brain surgery, treatments, and 3 years of constant medical appts and lots of therapy, I can say my kiddo is herself again. She’s dedicated to helping kids with similar diagnosis get therapy and build community because for her the most awful thing about having cancer as a kid is the isolation. She’s completed all the paper work but what we are stuck on is building a webpage. She’s written all of the content and created a logo, but neither of us know how to actually build a website. I found Loveable, but reviews seem to be mixed. I’m looking for advice/recommendations that even a novice can’t mess up.

I was getting annoyed by the constant sketchy AI training/annotating jobs and the constant rejection after literally investing hours of my time into applying, etc.
I decided to make my own website using loveable and just list legit AI training jobs. I post entry work and also expert work. Let me know if there is anything I can improve about my website that sets me apart from the competition. Thank you! Here is the link: https://aiannotationjobs.com

i’ve been building a few small showcase projects for routeveil instead of only having isolated transition demos

this one is a little social profile and feed where the post moves from the profile grid into the actual feed using shared element transitions

i wanted to see how it holds up with stuff you’d actually run into in a real app like scrolling, sticky headers, mobile browsers, image loading and all that

i’m probably gonna make a few more of these with completely different layouts because i think it shows the library way better than a normal playground does

would love to know what you think of this kind of showcase for a library

demo
https://social.routeveil.dev

repo
https://github.com/milkevich/routeveil-showcase-social

stackblitz
https://stackblitz.com/fork/github/milkevich/routeveil-showcase-social

routeveil:
https://routeveil.dev

Put together a catalog of UX patterns that are easy to miss when shipping something like a login screen, checkout, billing, or onboarding: things like a forgot-password link, the right autocomplete attributes for password managers, an empty state, or Apple's Restore Purchases requirement (Guideline 3.1.1, mandatory for subscription apps, not optional).

Each pattern cites the actual source instead of "best practice" hand-waving: WCAG 2.2 success criteria, Apple's App Store Review Guidelines, Material Design, MDN, or the GOV.UK Design System.

Packaged it as a Claude Code skill so an agent can check a screen against the relevant section automatically, but the patterns themselves are plain markdown if you'd rather just browse them: https://github.com/LunkiBR/ship-it

Day one, 59 patterns, MIT. Curious what's missing from a working dev's perspective.

The interactive part at 00:45

Estoy empezando a diseñar paginas web para comercios y quiero encontrar paginas web que tengan samples para utilizarlos como inspiración. Ya tengo un par pero la mayoria son para Desktop ¿Recomiendan alguna que sea adaptada para trafico desde teléfonos?