A design critique of the existing site

Nadia shared some images I may use, and this is the website she started creating, which honestly is not bad as a first version. Here is the feedback I would give on it.

This part needs a little more space. The typing animation is pretty cool and it conveys her being a builder, so I like that. I would give all of this more space so it sits more centred between the main screen and the hero. I would also make this one big scrollable page, and remove the calls to action from here, putting them either in the navbar or at the very bottom.

Three buttons, and I would align them so this takes up less vertical space. I would reflect your position at CodeYam, so put CEO or something like that, and then an image that conveys CodeYam or a way to learn more. Describe your position a little more and what it is you actually do.

For the writing section I would remove one part and just have the call to action to read on Substack. Opening Substack, all of this is very interesting and tells a lot about her, so I would import those posts into the main website and put them here. In the about section I would keep or replace the icons, but also include the photos, because they add a lot.

The ending is very good, with all the ways to connect with her, but I would lay those out horizontally and make them stand out more. It says based in New York, and I would add something like previously in Denver or previously in California, because that is interesting too. It says built with Next.js and love, and I would probably say built with CodeYam and love.

Keep this so people can scroll directly to where they want to go, especially contact. This is nice, but I would have one very simple layout like this in light mode, and then another with a lot of colour, or very different typography, that makes it stand out.