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Designing fast, elegant WordPress experiences.

A portfolio theme for creators, engineers, freelancers, and agencies who care about polished presentation and measurable performance.

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A focused portfolio foundation for serious creative work.

RDS Portfolio is designed for professionals who need a fast, refined, content-first website without heavy dependencies.

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Theme Architecture
Gutenberg Systems
Responsive UI
Performance Tuning
  1. 01

    Discover

    Clarify goals, content priorities, and user journeys before design begins.

  2. 02

    Design

    Shape typography, layout rhythm, components, and conversion paths.

  3. 03

    Build

    Ship clean WordPress code with accessibility and performance baked in.

Portfolio

Selected work with thoughtful detail.

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Designing with Data Notes

Designing and data are two halves of the equation Design helps improve data quality and experiments with users Data helps defend design decisions, creates metrics and measure effects towards goals Design doesn’t come just from instincts alone The reason designers fear data: Data undermines and undervalues the designer’s intuition and experience Data stifles creativity and…

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Covid-19 volunteering

About a month ago, I was informed about Helpforcovid.com, a website where Covid-19 projects, dedicated to different problems that arose from the pandemic, were trying to recruit volunteers. Anything from co-ordinating groceries and help for at-risk populations such as the elderly to co-ordinating supply logistics for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in hospitals were seeking volunteers. I…

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Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative

Last summer, I had the privilege to work and contribute back to the city of Baltimore in a meaningful way.  I worked as a web designer for the Baltimore Ev Background: I joined the Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative as a Web Designer. My main responsibilities were to produce infographics, branding, and re-design the website to…

Portfolio

Creating an icon set for an online course

I recently created a icon set to go along with the course I was developing, which was about communicating as a designer or researcher. When I was initially coming up with the course, I realized that I would need to have graphics for the amount of information that I was hoping to convey within the…

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SEER*EXPLORER: Incorporating UX into a Healthcare tool

Goal of the project: Re-design SEER*Explorer, a research tool for visualizing cancer statistic data, to be usable to wider audiences. In specific, cancer patients, journalists, and newer cancer researchers. In addition, address both new and existing usability issues that hindered task completion for this tool. Challenges for the project: First, was that I did not…

Services

Everything needed for a durable portfolio presence.

Portfolio Websites

Elegant sites for freelancers, creators, consultants, and agencies.

WordPress Themes

Scalable theme systems built around Gutenberg and long-term maintainability.

Speed Optimization

Lean CSS, conditional scripts, responsive media, and Core Web Vitals care.

Testimonials

Trust signals with accessible motion.

The theme feels premium without feeling heavy. It gave our work room to breathe and still loaded quickly.

Creative Director

Clean templates, strong defaults, and exactly the kind of Gutenberg support we needed.

Agency Founder

A thoughtful base for portfolio sites where accessibility and polish matter from day one.

Independent Consultant

Tech Stack

Built for the tools WordPress professionals use every day.

WordPress Gutenberg PHP CSS JavaScript
90 Performance target
6 Core patterns
0 Required plugins

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Latest thinking, notes, and case stories.

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Designing with Data Notes

Designing and data are two halves of the equation Design helps improve data quality and experiments with users Data helps defend design decisions, creates metrics and measure effects towards goals Design doesn’t come just from instincts alone The reason designers fear data: Data undermines and undervalues the designer’s intuition and experience Data stifles creativity and…

Covid-19 volunteering

About a month ago, I was informed about Helpforcovid.com, a website where Covid-19 projects, dedicated to different problems that arose from the pandemic, were trying to recruit volunteers. Anything from co-ordinating groceries and help for at-risk populations such as the elderly to co-ordinating supply logistics for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in hospitals were seeking volunteers. I…

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