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Design Engineer Portfolio: A custom-coded portfolio where the design and the engineering are the work.

Design Engineer Portfolio: A custom-coded portfolio where the design and the engineering are the work.

Design Engineer Portfolio: A custom-coded portfolio where the design and the engineering are the work.

A personal portfolio built in Next.js, Tailwind, and MDX, with fluid typography and a publishing structure designed around the work.

A personal portfolio built in Next.js, Tailwind, and MDX, with fluid typography and a publishing structure designed around the work.

Chevis Zhou needed a portfolio that proved design-engineering range beyond no-code tooling. We designed and hand-coded a fluid, mathematically-tuned typographic system in Next.js and Tailwind — shipping a fully custom site with zero page-builder dependencies.

Chevis Zhou needed a portfolio that proved design-engineering range beyond no-code tooling. We designed and hand-coded a fluid, mathematically-tuned typographic system in Next.js and Tailwind — shipping a fully custom site with zero page-builder dependencies.

Chevis Zhou needed a portfolio that proved design-engineering range beyond no-code tooling. We designed and hand-coded a fluid, mathematically-tuned typographic system in Next.js and Tailwind — shipping a fully custom site with zero page-builder dependencies.

Year

2026

Services

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Web design

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Web development

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Branding & identity

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Motion Design

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Portfolio

Duration

12 weeks

Live Website ↗

Arca wordmark, dark navy
Arca wordmark, dark navy

Impact

Impact

Lighthouse performance score

Lighthouse performance score

Lighthouse performance score

monthly visitors

monthly visitors

monthly visitors

average engagement time per visitor

average engagement time per visitor

average engagement time per visitor

Arca Wealth homepage hero — the live site
Arca wordmark, off-white
Arca Wealth homepage hero — the live site
Arca wordmark, off-white

Background

Background

A Framer studio that needed proof it can hand-write production code.

AethrDesign's custom tier is built in Framer: fast, visual and easy for clients to run. It doesn't show that we can also hand-write production code, from fluid type systems to custom MDX pipelines. This project is that proof.

Work hosted on cheviszhou.com has been featured in Case Study Club and UX Design Weekly.

The homepage: one sentence of positioning, then the featured work.

The homepage: one sentence of positioning, then the featured work.

Arca's Growth Design Backlog in mid-August 2026, with the type audit and image-loading tickets in progress and two landing-page tickets shipped

A case-study page, with the project facts in a rail beside the story.

A case-study page, with the project facts in a rail beside the story.

The pod's Slack channel: the hero fix shared for review, a stakeholder flags a missing bullet in Framer, and it is fixed six minutes later

Execution overview

Execution overview

A hand-coded portfolio with a type scale built from first principles.

The build ports and extends a case-study-driven design language in Next.js, Tailwind v4 and MDX, with no template and no page builder.

Every type size comes from a Perfect Fourth scale, fluid across breakpoints through CSS clamp(). Layout, spacing and colour are documented and versioned like production code, the same discipline we bring to client builds.

The Lab page, the site's heaviest motion work.

The Lab page, the site's heaviest motion work.

Arca Wealth hero on a cold load, side by side at the same viewport: before, the image tears into a flat navy fill with the headline already showing; after, the hero appears complete

Lab entries open in a modal, so the detail never costs the reader their place.

Lab entries open in a modal, so the detail never costs the reader their place.

The 17 semantic text styles in Framer, applied to the live Arca homepage

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