Joe Fugere, web designer and front-end developer

My Story

Learning, designing, building.

I’m a developing UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer creating clean, responsive websites with thoughtful layouts and user-friendly digital experiences.

About Me

Learning by designing, building, and improving.

I’m Joe Fugere, a growing UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer building polished, responsive websites through hands-on practice. I’m strengthening my skills in HTML, CSS, Sass, Figma, and JavaScript while creating portfolio projects that sharpen my eye for layout, typography, spacing, and user-focused design.

Skills & Tools

The tools and skills I’m building with.

My current focus is building a strong foundation across visual design, responsive front-end development, and practical workflow tools.

Design

  • Figma
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Responsive UI design

Front-End

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Sass / SCSS
  • JavaScript fundamentals
  • Responsive layouts

Workflow

  • VS Code
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • npm scripts
  • Chrome DevTools

How I Work

Focused on clarity, structure, and thoughtful details.

I approach each project by focusing on the fundamentals first: clear structure, strong spacing, readable typography, responsive layouts, and visual consistency.

01

Structure

Clean HTML, organized SCSS, and reusable layout patterns that make a website easier to understand and maintain.

02

Visual Design

Thoughtful typography, spacing, color, and hierarchy to create pages that feel polished and intentional.

03

Responsiveness

Layouts that adapt cleanly across screen sizes so each experience feels usable on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

My Journey

Building skills through consistent practice.

I’m currently growing my front-end development skills while continuing to improve my design process. Each project gives me a chance to practice layout, responsive behavior, Sass organization, visual hierarchy, and problem solving.

Continued Learning

Courses that shaped my foundation.

More learning milestones coming soon.

Coursera

Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

Completed the first course in the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, covering user-centered design, accessibility, design thinking, UX research, and the foundational responsibilities of a UX designer.

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Coursera

Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate

Completed the second course in the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, focused on understanding user needs, creating problem and goal statements, developing personas and user stories, and generating design ideas through structured ideation.

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Coursera

Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes

Completed the third course in the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, focused on creating paper and digital wireframes, developing user flows, building low-fidelity prototypes, and testing early design concepts.

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Coursera

Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts

Completed the fourth course in the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts. Learned how to plan and conduct moderated and unmoderated usability studies, synthesize observations into actionable insights, present research methods and findings persuasively, and improve low-fidelity designs based on user feedback.

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Udemy Certificate

Build Responsive Real-World Websites with HTML and CSS

Completed coursework focused on responsive layouts, HTML, CSS, flexbox, CSS grid, and real-world website structure.

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Udemy Certificate

Advanced CSS and Sass: Flexbox, Grid, Animations and More!

Completed coursework focused on responsive layouts, HTML, CSS, flexbox, CSS grid, and real-world website structure.

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Udemy Certificate

Figma UI UX Design Essentials

Completed coursework focused on responsive layouts, HTML, CSS, flexbox, CSS grid, and real-world website structure.

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Udemy certificate for Complete Web and Mobile Designer: UI/UX, Figma

Udemy Certificate

Complete Web & Mobile Designer: UI/UX, Figma, +more.

Completed coursework focused on responsive layouts, HTML, CSS, flexbox, CSS grid, and real-world website structure.

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Explore My Work

Want to see what I’m building?

View my portfolio projects to see how I’m applying design, code, and responsive layout skills across different web experiences.