Simple, yet Meaningful

Our identities are intricate, complex, and hard to put into distinct categories. When going about picking my three identities for this project, I wanted to choose parts of me that are apart of my everyday life. These are the identities that are most central to my being. I chose to write about being a healthcare worker and scientist, animal lover, and family member because these are the three most influential parts of my life. There is not a day that goes by where any of these three things do not affect or influence me. I want the reader to leave the website knowing about the parts of me that are most influential to who I am. 

I really enjoyed the process of making the website. I love having chances to be creative and I felt like I had the freedom to really make the photo essay my own. This was much easier for me to compose than something in the traditional essay format because it felt more interactive. I had a blast choosing which photos to pick and went down memory lane going through my camera roll. I felt more free to write about what I wanted to, which made it easy to compose. This did not feel like a school project that I was forced to check of my to-do list, but more of a self reflective activity that was actually enjoyable to complete.

I feel that the design of my website is pretty reflective to my personality. I am a pretty simple and straightforward person. I really like simplistic things and neutral colors. I wanted my website to reflect this. I chose each photo or design on the website with meaning. I aimed for simple, but meaningful, which is pretty parallel to me as a person. I chose my front page to be a video from a chemistry lab last year. I took a time-lapse of a compound melting in a test tube above a Bunsen burner and thought that this would be the perfect welcome page to my website. The background is simple, but very reflective as to what I would be writing about within the essay. I kept the front page plain, just adding “This is me” as the header. I felt this perfectly encapsulated the “simple, yet meaningful” idea that I was going for. I followed this logic when picking photos, backgrounds, and designing where the text would go for each description. 

When approaching the written portion of this text, I wanted to maintain a similar voice throughout each division. Event though I was writing about three very different parts of me: being a healthcare worker and scientist, being an animal lover, and being a daughter and sister, these are all parts of me that make up my whole and I wanted to the website to signify this. I want to be informative, but also personable and maintain a voice that feels authentic to who I am. 

https://augenstein5.wixsite.com/mysite