About Me
“Aspiring web designer, Ruby on Rails developer, illustrator, cartoonist, artist, musician, writer, and poet. Expert sleeper.” — Twitter profile
Update (7 April 2010): Currently NOT accepting contract positions for web design. I am happily employed at this time and thus am not actively seeking career opportunities outside of my company.
My name is Hannah Hu, and I currently reside in Oakland, CA. I graduated form the University of California–Berkeley in the spring of 2009, with a BA in Computer Science. During my time there, I took interest in art, music, philosophy, German, and cognitive science. In my sophomore year, after many years of believing that web design involved ugly table-based layouts, I discovered CSS and viewed the profession a bit… differently.
Currently I work at Yelp as a front-end engineer/designer.
Skills
My main focus is web/UI design and development, with Ruby on Rails development and web consulting as extra services I can provide. On the non-Internet side of things, I gladly accept projects in graphics and logo design, print, and illustration.
My technologies of profession:
- XHTML/CSS
- Javascript
- PHP
- MySQL
- Ruby on Rails
- Drupal
- Python
Leisure
My free time is usually spent on doodling, experimenting with Corel Painter, writing poetry, and composing impromptu tunes on Propellerheads Reason and Ableton Live. You can find some of those hobby-works on my Pastime page.
About This Site
Although this site was officially launched on the 1st of September, 2009, by no means is the design final. My plan is to incrementally realign/redesign the site as time goes on, so if something breaks while you’re browsing, blame it on me :)
Despite the name, this website is not azure-colored (except maybe the graph-paper gridlines). The name refers to an earlier, azure-colored iteration of the site’s design that never made it to code, though a variation of it will be made for version 2.0 of the site. The word “autonomy” is spelled in its German equivalent due to my obsession with German.
This site has been successfully tested in Firefox 3.0 and 3.5, Safari 4, IE7 and 8, Google Chrome, and Opera 10. All graphics in the site’s design, except the background graph-paper pattern, were drawn by hand with graphite pencil, then scanned into Photoshop, where I pieced together the CSS sprite background used in the main menu, and darkened the lines. The site’s title is, indeed, not a font. I chose a hand-drawn, sketchy style because I believe it is important to remember, that all great designs have to start somewhere, and that is usually a piece of paper with graphite marks. I do my sketches on graph paper, and thought it more fitting to apply that pattern on my site, to show that, though it may be declared as final at some point, it will always be a work–in–progress.
Contact Me
You may also follow me on Twitter and view my LinkedIn profile.