Portfolio Revamp & Rebuild

Spinning tops have a meditative quality if you just watch them. The Breathing Reset is supposed to do the same thing for your breathing. When I was building it, I chose the same iridescent conic-gradient for both specifically because of that connection. One visual language, two things trying to do the same thing: slow you down.

The hero alternates between "Hi, I'm Tanvi." and "तन्वी." every three seconds. Sideways card flip, pronunciation guide slides in when the Hindi name shows. The idea was simple. Getting the timing, the easing, the slide distance to feel natural took a lot of iterations. Most people don't know how to say my name. I wanted the correction to feel effortless, not like a lesson.

Canela and Inter Tight. One is editorial, warm, unhurried. Taste. The other is precise, tight, functional. Craft. Put them together and you get the designer × builder thesis in the type itself, before a single word of copy has landed.

I think technology should make people feel calmer, not more anxious. If I'm going to say that, the portfolio should actually do it. So there's a full breathwork session built into a single page section: OM drone audio at 136Hz, an iridescent circle paced to your inhale and exhale, a mood check after 60 seconds. Not a gimmick. A conviction that felt dishonest to only write about.

On mobile, Selected Work becomes a swipeable card stack. Cards peek at different depths behind the top one. Swipe left to go forward, right to go back, spring-return if you don't commit. Inspired by Hotstar's browsing pattern but built from scratch — velocity detection, direction locking so vertical scroll always hands back to the browser. Only a deliberate horizontal gesture triggers it.

A UI/UX background and a Computer Science degree mean the bar is specific and self-imposed. Throughout the build: typescale rationalized to 14 purposeful sizes, spacing collapsed from 18 scattered values to a four-step system, contrast checked against WCAG in both light and dark modes, every breakpoint tested and iterated until mobile felt as considered as desktop. Multiple passes through each. Not because anyone asked. Because I knew exactly where to look.

The pull with a portfolio is always to add more. The harder discipline is what goes. The Designer × Builder eyebrow repeated the tagline — gone. The HowIThink subtitle explained cards that don't need it — gone. A quote attribution animation that turned a belief into a performance — gone. Five weaker quotes, one redundant question, a response-time reassurance that appeared three times. Every cut made what stayed carry more weight.