Products · Broad category
Portfolio websites
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 9 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Portfolio websites, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Orbital camera controls were unintuitive for non-technical users2025-01-12
- One of the candidate's portfolio projects has a bad user interface2024-08-23
- Site is very slow to load or respond on laptop2023-03-11
- Tapping portfolio items does nothing on iOS Safari2023-03-11
- Site is so unusable that reading through it is frustrating2023-03-11
- Must click through each project link to see work; no previews for overview2018-08-02
- Placeholder entries aren't labelled as fictional, so the demo looks bad and confuses viewers2014-06-09
- Hard to hover the small portfolio links; navigation sits in an odd spot2013-11-15
- Visitors can't tell where carousel content appears elsewhere on the site2013-07-10
- Page scrolls horizontally on tablets because carousel overflows the layout2013-07-10
- Field labels disappear once typing starts, so users lose track of what each field needs2011-06-08
- Hidden mouseover interaction is unclear; tooltips appear unexpectedly when hovering nearby2010-12-07