Apr 1, 2025
When I started working on Zeprium, I didn't just want to build a website — I wanted to create a space.
Zeprium is not a portfolio in the traditional sense. It's an evolving reflection of what I see, think, and feel as a designer. It carries fragments of process, decisions, and in-betweens that are often left out of final presentations.
The Process of Creation
In the early days, I spent more time thinking about tone and structure than aesthetics. What should this place feel like? Serious or playful? Editorial or interactive? The answer, I realized, was all of them. Because Zeprium is not a single thing. It flows with my curiosity.
Intentional Design
This site is handcrafted. I built and rebuilt it with every little shift in thought. The design is minimal on purpose, to stay out of the way of the content. But every margin, every interaction, is deliberate. There are no templates here.
The Role of Tools
I didn't write the code line by line. But I made every decision behind it. The structure, the flow, the look, the feel. Every choice was intentional.
So at one point I asked myself — if I didn't code it, is it still my design?
I believe the answer is both yes and no. Design is not about execution alone. It's about direction, judgment, and intent. It's about shaping experience through choices — big and small.
Tools and Collaboration
Designers have always worked with tools. From sketchbooks to libraries, from frameworks to AI — every tool expands our ability to think, to build, to express.
In that sense, Zeprium is a collaboration. I shaped it. But I was never alone. This project was only made possible because of the dialogue — between me and the tools I used, especially the one I'm speaking to now.
The Blog as a Living Space
The blog section is perhaps the most important part. It's where ideas surface before they solidify, where questions are allowed to remain open, and where the boundary between thinking and making becomes thinner.
So this first post is more than a note about building a site. It is the first footprint of Zeprium becoming real.