Nic Fontaine

Professional

Working at Axion Ray ↗ as a Senior Software Engineer in React, Typescript, NestJS, Mongo. Work info on my Resume Page.

Abstract

I'm always an advocate for pragmatic usability over visceral style. Software should feel satisfying and imply logic, rather than slowing and clouding the user-experience. I strive to analyze business needs & limitations and user frustrations/requirements/imagination to effectively design ground-up for both new and power users, maintaining a cohesive and predictable feel.

This Site

It's entirely navigable via keyboard -- arrows to switch sides, select a menu section (use enter), maximize view, and scroll.

It's fast. Web fonts are minimal and preloaded. Sub-page images have by now been pre-loaded into your cache, for quick browsing. The only JS dependencies are velocity and scrolldir - no analytics, jquery, etc. CSS is loaded asynchronously, with basic & fallback styles in the head. It will all run fine with JS disabled, and load in just over 1 second.

It's unique, memorable, and functional.