Nic Fontaine

Boom headshot

San Fran­cisco, CA

Web/Game Dev­eloper

UI/­Graphic Des­igner

Wait, there's no k in your name?

Kindergarten Photo

Yea, it's Nicholas  -> Nic. Apparently 1st grade me didn't think adding another letter made any sense.

Fully — Nicholas Grayson Paul Fontaine. Or if you're my grandmother, just Nico.

About...

Professional

Working at Axion Ray ↗ as a Fullstack 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 through the business/tech/resource limitations to effectively design ground-up for the end-user -- from research, diagrams, and wireframes to development, testing, and launch.

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.

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