Hey there — I'm Shailesh. I create unique digital experiences for brands and people that can see the future. Currently freelance, February 2021. Want to get in touch?
Winner of HTNE x 1517's Most Novel Hack — Startup Prize.
What do you get when you cross a disgruntled job seeker and a client specializing in job searches? A healthy dose of irreverence. The identity of this website flies in the face of traditional job seeking ideals. Gone are the days when websites needed to look professional to be trusted. Plain is out, and playful is in. Built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Cumulus is the silver lining to the job seeker's rainy day.
As a portfolio for an rising artist, this website was designed with visuals squarely in mind. By using only two colors and simple shapes, the artist's work is allowed to shine through. Convoluted type hierarchies are exchanged in favor of loud, in-your-face type. Built entirely in custom JavaScript, the single page app is super light and can be cached at the edge — meaning a blazing fast website to suit the pace of the artist it represents.
A blog for helping up-and-coming coders learn the basics, this website needed to really nail the fundamentals. Blogs are notoriously tricky to design, and user experience must be kept at the forefront despite the vast amount of information being thrown at the user. A simple color scheme and plain shapes like rectangles help combat this information overload, aided by an entirely custom framework that's designed for deployment at the edge. A progressive web app, the site uses modern caching techniques like service workers and CDNs to produce a blog that looks and feels as good as its content.
Terraling's website needed an overhaul. By removing tired graphics and outdated interactions, users of the site can comprehend and visualize data without excess visual strain. A fresh design system that stays true to its roots helped inform the changes; new fonts, new faces, new tables and no traces of Bootstrap anywhere. Transitioning from Ruby on Rails to React also helped offload computation from the server, allowing for faster load times and more dynamic visualizations. Linguistics never looked this good.
Web agencies need to strut their stuff. Working with the in-house design team, the Alakoja website was created to represent the fluidity and guts of the design agency. Brooklyn-born and Brooklyn-raised, the agency needed an experience that embodied both in-your-face and get-shit-done. By using a strong column-based design system and almost-but-not-quite-Helvetica grotesks, the website takes this experience and runs with it. Built to be deployed on the edge, it's written entirely in custom JavaScript. Blazing fast, and damn good looking.