aurianedefago.ch - Portfolio

A portfolio that welcomes you into her world.

2026Vaud, SwitzerlandInteractive portfolio website (FR/EN)

Auriane Défago’s 3D studio with her desk, plants and records

The project in detail

Project: Auriane Défago
Year: 2026
Location: Vaud, Switzerland
Services: Art direction, web design, 3D development
Duration: 5 days
Stack: Three.js · Web Audio · Vite · Vercel
Live website: aurianedefago.ch

The starting point

Make a portfolio a place you want to stay.

The former website showed Auriane’s projects through large images and page-by-page navigation. It presented her work but left little room for her personality. The new portfolio opens into her world: a 3D studio inhabited by her objects, influences and avatar.

A Mac opens the projects; a shelf leads to the records. Her avatar draws, reads, waters tulips and plays with Edy, her cat. Alongside this living room, the projects, records and About page have a clear, direct presentation.

Role

Art direction, experience design, 3D modelling, development and sound design, from the first sketch to launch.

Deliverables

3D studio, avatar and wardrobe, logo animation, projects, records, About page and mobile experience, in French and English.

Outcome

A portfolio delivered in five days, made to be explored rather than browsed, with interactions that express Auriane’s personality.

Comparison of the former portfolio and the new interactive studio — 01Before / after: from a gallery to a lived-in space

02The logo takes shape, then the room comes together

Auriane’s 3D studio with a desk, plants, records and design objects — 03Her studio, modelled in 3D and alive in real time

A studio with life in it.

The logo draws itself before the furniture enters the scene. Materials, plants and lamps build a real-time low-poly world. Her avatar changes outfits, keeps busy and reacts; footsteps, pages and Edy’s purr are synthesised live with Web Audio. Sound can always be muted.

Four studio interactions: drawing, playing with Edy, lighting the room and playing a record — 04Over 25 interactions: drawing, playing with Edy, switching to night mode

Auriane’s project index on desktop and mobile — 05Projects presented as an editorial index

Record collection and interactive turntable on desktop and mobile — 06A record collection to browse and listen to

MIZU and Dolce Vita project pages with galleries and descriptions — 07A clear project page, from image to text

Before-and-after comparison of the MIZU project page — 08Before / after: the project page

Explore, read, listen.

Projects can be browsed as an editorial index or cards, then open onto their context and full-screen gallery. In the record collection, a record comes out of its sleeve, lands on the turntable and plays an excerpt when the tonearm moves. The About page continues the playful tone with a portrait that follows your gaze.

About page with Auriane’s 3D portrait on desktop and mobile — 09The About page: her avatar follows your gaze

Made for thumbs, too.

Touch interactions, pinch-to-zoom and thumb-friendly menus carry the experience onto mobile. Navigation, transitions, search metadata and French and English versions complete the journey, from the first visit to the last image.

The project line

“You no longer browse a portfolio. You drop in on Auriane.”

A 3D studio where every object reveals a taste and every click opens up part of her work.

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