Background

Traditional portfolio sites often degrade over time due to tightly coupled layouts, ad-hoc styling rules, and content-specific components. This project was conceived as an experiment in treating a personal archive as a UI system, not just a collection of pages.

The goal was to validate whether a resume and work history could be modeled as structured data rendered through stable, reusable UI primitives.

Architectural Focus

Component-Driven UI Structure

Instead of building pages directly, the entire UI is composed from isolated components defined and verified in Storybook. Each component represents a stable contract—where layout, spacing, typography, and interaction rules are fixed at the component level.

This approach ensures:

• Predictable UI behavior regardless of content changes.
• Safe iteration on layout without page-level regressions.
• Clear separation between data structure and visual styling.

Styling Isolation & Predictability

Styled Components were adopted to enforce strict style encapsulation. No global CSS rules or implicit inheritance are relied upon, ensuring high maintainability.

Key outcomes:

• Zero class name collisions.
• Theme-level control over color, spacing, and typography.
• Consistent rendering across layout variants.

Data-Driven Rendering Layer

Contentlayer is used to model resumes, work entries, and archives as typed data. UI components consume normalized data shapes rather than page-specific props.

This allows:

• Reusing the same UI components for various views (resume, work, archive).
• Rendering different content densities without duplicating layout logic.
• Long-term extensibility without refactoring the UI layer.

Result

The project functions as both a personal archive and a validation of a UI-architecture approach where components, not pages, are the primary unit of design.

This structure enables the archive to grow without increasing UI complexity, making it suitable as a long-term professional record rather than a static showcase.