Hi from Sweden

Hey I'm Arne,
web designer since 2007 and
formerly known as Alina.

This is an extremely summarized archive of my portfolio 2007-2023.

2007-2013

Worked as Web Designer in 3 various companies.

2013-2022

Self-employed. My projects were either successfully sold, closed or sometimes not published. I still have drafts that were never finished.

During this time I went through 3 relocations, 2 hardware storage failures, one temporary unofficial name change (2022), one official name change and one gender change. That makes it difficult to attribute my old work.

Some of my projects

  1. brutalistthemes.com (2018-2022) - sold
  2. fontsarena.com (2018-2022) - sold
    Sadly the new owner destroyed it and turned it into spam. I am not linking to it and I don't recommend visiting the website.
  3. Visual Coffee - closed down but mysteriously online
    This one is a mystery. Someone scraped my website, bought the domain after I let it expire and it's maintaining a clone of it. I don't understand why. They could've reached out to me if they liked the website.
  4. craftedpixels.net (2013-2016) - sold
  5. glam.ink (2017-2018) - sold, now offline
  6. freebiescafe.com (2015-2017) - sold
  7. wpcrumbs.com (2016-2017) - sold, now redirects
  8. themes.sale (2018-2019) - sold, now offline
  9. mockupsarena.com (2018-2019) - sold, now offline
  10. brutalistone.com / brutalist.one - sold, now offline
  11. freebiesarena.com - draft, never published because of NDA agreement
  12. fontgg.com / font.gg - draft, never published
  13. uxoverflow.com - draft, never published
  14. uiux.consulting - draft, never published
  15. mind.coffee - closed down, now offline
  16. mind.rip - closed down, now offline
  17. veg.reviews - draft, never published
  18. easyvegan.recipes - closed down, now offline
  19. tilgg.com - closed down, now offline
  20. pancakeway.com - closed down, now offline
  21. weddingthemes.market - closed down, now offline
  22. xentheme.com - draft, never published but someone saw the coming soon page and built my idea after I let the domain expire
  23. Free WP themes
  24. Grid-based modular light sass framework
  25. Sysfont
  26. Windows 95 font

2023

Pluggie.se

I started my first job as Web Designer in 2007, working with Photoshop, Flash, HTML and CSS.

Since then, most of my experience was with:

  1. Design systems, Sass/SCSS, CSS3, HTML5, WordPress, frontend
  2. Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD), Figma, Sketch
  3. Performance optimisation using Lighthouse and Performance Insights
  4. On-page SEO and copywriting

Pluggie

Project
Role
UX/UI Designer & Frontend Developer
Challenges
  1. Design with consideration for the ADD/ADHD spectrum
  2. Reorganise primary navigation and fix issues
  3. Establish structured hierarchies and strategic placements for secondary dashboard navigations
  4. Enhance the readability of content pages (Theory pages)
Deliverables
  1. Conduct user research
  2. Develop strategic wireframes
  3. Execute UX and UI design
  4. Create a new logo icon
  5. Implement design on the frontend

Primary navigation / Header

Old primary navigation
Pluggie.se old header
Problem 1
Mina Sidor (My Pages) is redundant. It navigates users to the login page — a flow that is also mirrored by the presence of a login button.
Solution
Ensure a clear presence of Logga in (Log in) and Bli medlem (Sign up) and remove Mina Sidor (My Pages) from the interface.
Problem 2
The Logga in (Log in) and Logga ut (Log out) options are placed right after a search form (Sök i Uppgiftsbanken) that lacks a clearly visible search button. This proximity can lead to confusion, potentially prompting users to mistakenly click on them as if they were the search button.
Solution
Logga in (Log in) and Logga ut (Log out) will be transitioned from primary buttons to navigation links. Bli medlem (Sign up) will be styled as a call-to-action with the design attributes of a primary button.
Problem 3
Account pages are mixed with logged out public pages.
Solution
Relocate account-related pages to the right side of the primary navigation. Left side will be reserved for non-account-related links. Make Mina sidor (My pages) stand out, without being styled as a primary button.
New primary navigation (logged-out user)
New homepage
New primary navigation (logged-in user)
Pluggie.se new redesigned header

Homepage

Old homepage
Pluggie.se old homepage
New homepage — full design
Pluggie.se new redesigned homepage

Full projects I designed and developed

Project
Type
Commissioned work
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Frontend Development
  4. CecilApp theme
  5. On-page SEO
As of 2022 altafino.com was redesigned. My work can be viewed at arnesava.com/projects/altafino
Project
Visual Coffee
Type
Self-initiated ecommerce project
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Development
  4. Content strategy
Project
Fonts Arena
Type
Self-initiated project
[ I sold this project June 2022 ]
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Development
  4. Research & content writing
  5. On-page SEO
Project
BrutalistThemes.com
Type
Self-initiated ecommerce project
[ I sold this project June 2022 ]
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Development
  4. Product design & development
  5. On-page SEO
  6. Custom fonts
  7. Custom social icons
Logo
Project
Mind Coffee
Type
Self-initiated project
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Frontend Development
  4. Content writing
Logo
Project
Crafted Pixels
Type
Self-initiated project
[ I sold this project October 2016 ]
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Development
  4. Product design & development
    (3 WordPress themes, 3 HTML templates, 1 Tumblr theme, 2 .psd templates, and 1 WordPress plugin)
Logo
Project
Glam Ink
Type
Self-initiated project
[ I sold this project February 2018 ]
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Development
  4. Product design & development
    (10 WordPress themes — 7 commercial and 3 approved in the WordPress.org repo)
  5. On-page SEO
  6. Copywriter
Logo
Project
WP Crumbs
Type
Co-founded project
[ I sold this project November 2017 ]
My Work
  1. Logo Design
  2. UX UI Design
  3. Created a design system for the featured images
  4. Created 2 themes approved in the WordPress.org repo)
  5. On-page SEO
  6. Curator & Writer