SOPHOS · Sofía Iriondo
A real freelance client (via Upwork, referred by Mónica): the full design and development of a bespoke portfolio website for Sofía Iriondo, a product designer whose philosophy is "design made for people". The brief was a site with its own distinct personality, warm, close and human, designed and coded from scratch.
Role
Web Designer & Frontend Developer
Client
Sofía Iriondo, Product Designer (via Upwork)
Industry
Design Portfolio
Year
2026
Duration
~1 week · Aug 2026
Team
Solo, freelance (Upwork)
Tools
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Figma
Deliverables
Custom portfolio website (design + build), unique brand identity, responsive layout, Netlify deployment
Sofía, referred by Mónica, designs human-centred furniture and objects, "design made for people". She needed a portfolio with its own clear personality, warm and close, and visibly different from Mónica's site. The challenge was to give her a unique identity without starting the engineering from zero.
- Give Sofía a unique identity, not a clone of another site.
- Convey warmth and closeness from the first screen.
- Put her people-first philosophy at the centre.
- Build it responsive and easy to maintain.
- Deliver it live, hosted and ready to share.
The identity is warm and editorial: a terracotta and cream palette, a serif-and-sans type pairing that feels crafted, and playful flower motifs. The hero is a photo collage that celebrates the people her design serves, makers, families, everyday life, so the site leads with warmth, not just objects.
I reused the code architecture I built for Mónica's site, design tokens, components and layout system, but gave Sofía a completely distinct skin: her own colours, typography and concept. Same solid engineering, unique soul. It's an efficient way to deliver bespoke work without reinventing the foundations each time.
I designed and built the site in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, responsive, with subtle scroll animations and detail pages, and shipped it live on Netlify. Designing and coding it myself kept the final result faithful to the intended feel.
A warm, distinctive portfolio that puts people at the centre, delivered live and responsive, and my second client on Upwork, referred by the first.
Building a reusable architecture that still lets each brand feel one-of-a-kind was the real lesson here, solid foundations, unique surface. And that doing good work brings the next client: Sofía came as a referral from Mónica.