MICHELLE
APRILE
Front-end engineer + freelance web designer
Based in London, I work across product interfaces and freelance sites with calm structure, visual sensitivity, and a strong eye for detail.
Two live projects — one image-led and editorial, one structured and bilingual. Together they show what I can actually do.
photographer
A portfolio for Italian photographer Valentina Cometti, where the design had one job: stay out of the way of the photographs.
THE IDEA
Valentina needed a portfolio where her photography could breathe. No competing UI, no heavy navigation — just images, light, and a little poetry. The site covers six service categories while keeping the same editorial warmth throughout, and loads large photography files fast through Vercel's image CDN.
Nuxt
Multi-page structure
TypeScript
Type safety
Vercel
Deployment + image CDN
Image optimisation
_vercel/image
Responsive
Mobile-first
photographer
A portfolio for Italian photographer Valentina Cometti, where the design had one job: stay out of the way of the photographs.
THE IDEA
Valentina needed a portfolio where her photography could breathe. No competing UI, no heavy navigation — just images, light, and a little poetry. The site covers six service categories while keeping the same editorial warmth throughout, and loads large photography files fast through Vercel's image CDN.
Nuxt
Multi-page structure
TypeScript
Type safety
Vercel
Deployment + image CDN
Image optimisation
_vercel/image
Responsive
Mobile-first
Other work
A bilingual production website for a UK wellness technology distributor — dynamic product catalogue, EN/ES localisation, and a secure payment portal.
30+ product pages powered by slug-based dynamic routing, English + Spanish throughout, and a private admin payment portal built on Nitro server routes.
these are the frameworks and tools i have used since the start of my career
a bit about me
I'm originally from Italy and recently moved to London.
I've always been a pretty happy person. I love sunshine, the sea, travelling, colourful things, fashion and making things.
My friends say I'm a little ray of sunshine ☀️
I started coding in high school because I wanted to make games.
That didn't quite work out, so I started making websites instead. Got my first job straight after graduating and spent a few years building corporate web apps.
But somewhere along the way I became obsessed with the little things too.
how I work
I still love the coding part.
Now I spend a lot of my time making my own projects, learning new things and figuring out what I want to build next.
Michelle.exe
Workspace proof
Code, thoughts, GitHub, and the way I actually work.
Clear communication
“Michelle is thoughtful with details, but also practical. She brings calm structure to ideas and makes the work feel easy to move through.”
Clear communication
"Michelle is thoughtful with details, but also practical. She brings calm structure to ideas and makes the work feel easy to move through."
Front-end delivery
"She balances the visual side with real product thinking, so the end result feels polished without becoming fragile or confusing."
Taste and direction
"Her styling eye changes the atmosphere of a project. Even functional screens end up feeling considered, warm, and very intentional."
Working note
"Strong balance between design taste and real product thinking."
GitHub preview
@KeMichelle
keeps things simple
edge cases matter
clean but not cold
structure first, then polish
terminal tab
tests passing, still checking hover states
debug receipt
1 bug, 2 edge cases, 1 softer shadow
tiny shortcut
cmd + shift + p + fix the thing properly
live notes
I'm open to creative websites, product and front-end work, and freelance projects and collaborations.
Based in London, working with clients everywhere, always bringing a soft, considered approach to both design and development.
