Here’s a sneak peek of a new memorial website I’m building for my grandfather, along with a new product that I’m currently developing.

Can’t reveal much just yet, but stay tuned for updates! 🤫

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The most challenging part of building my nana’s web memorial was gathering all the recollections.

All the stories from her life that I thought I would remember forever were, in reality, easy to forget and hard to retrieve 🥲

Please save your memories 🙏

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Did loads of work and experimented with more designs than a mad scientist 🧪

Stumbled upon a Soviet-inspired poster we crafted for my nana’s website memorial

Sadly, it didn’t make the final cut, but it still holds a special place in my heart 🥲

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Working on a subscription form for Granny’s web memorial ✉️

Featuring Keshka, her beloved pet, in a vintage Soviet postcard style 🦜

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I remember it was a draw when I asked you folks to vote for the best design of the «Stories» page of my nana’s web memorial ✝️

So I decided to keep both and simply make a switcher between two different styles 💡

What do you think?

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Made a full-blown equalizer for Granny’s web memorial 📻

Each petal moves in accordance with the frequency of the track, creating a visual display 🍃

Maybe it’s a bit over the top since there’s only one track, but who cares?! 😅

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Celebrating the successful launch of the mobile version of the Milestones page 🥳

I want to affix a QR code on my grandma’s tombstone so that visitors can easily access her memorial page and learn all about her life 📱

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I finally animated the controls on my grandma’s memorial website’s media player 📻

I wanted everything to be custom-made, down to the most intricate button push animation 🖲

But, oh the tears that came with getting those petals to dance just right 😪

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I’ve been working on animations for my nana’s online memorial, and I’ve turned it into a fully-fledged media player that plays recordings of her voice 📻

It’s not quite finished yet, but I believe it looks quite decent.

What’s your take on it? 🤔

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@victor_bigfield Yeah, we should change the hashtag from #buildinpublic to #failinpublic and be actually proud of it ;)

I’m designing a language button for my nana’s web memorial.

Cannot choose between two variants. A bookmark or a knit ball styled as a globe icon?

Which one do you like more?

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Only a few people know that I have a beat-making background.

Here’s a music track I composed for my nana’s web memorial.

Now it's time to chop up some samples with her voice and put them on this track for visitors to listen to ;)

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I digitized old VHS cassettes from family archive and now cut audio samples with the nana’s voice to make a music track for her web memorial 🧸

Yeah, it’s me and her dancing like there’s no tomorrow 🥲

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Made a mobile version of the Milestones page for my granny’s memorial 🕯

Feel a bit sad to sacrifice so many elements and design details to fit the screens of small devices.

Well, at least I’m not planning to support Apple Watch 😅

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Here’s how the Main page looks like now with the live animation of my nana’s photo.

Btw it’s already in development stage and guess who’s coding it?

A javascript messiah himself! The one and only @SergiiKirianov 👑

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Finished a mobile version of the web memorial’s main page.

What do you think people, can you say that the navigation book’s bookmarks are actually clickable? 🤔

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Yay! Finished this page’s design for the granny’s web-memorial 🕯

It’s drawn in an old comic book style with a giant TV that you can click on and watch me reminiscing about the nana 💭

I wonder if I would ever get to the coding part with this project? 😅

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Made another story for the granny’s web-memorial 🕯

That’s a little me sitting with the cats in this funny panama hat 👒

We’re like leopards 😆

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Made this 404 page for the granny’s web-memorial 🕯

Styled it as a box of an old Soviet cake. My nana was a big sweet tooth 🍰

Throughout my web dev career I have never paid so much attention to a 404 page before 😅

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Woohoo! Finally finished working on an audio page of my nana’s memorial website with a custom equaliser ☦️

Press a play button and hear an audio track of her speaking and telling stories.

I plan to animate her portrait while the track is playing 📻

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