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Concept · Design · Build

Portfolio
OS.

A CV you don’t read, you explore. My whole story, rebuilt as an operating system.

Project
Personal · self-initiated
Role
Concept, design & build
Year
2026
nimrodgoma.netlify.app
Portfolio OS home, a macOS desktop with folders, dock and widgets

The desktop · “Explore it like a Mac”

01 The brief

A CV nobody remembers is a CV that didn’t work.

Recruiters skim hundreds of near-identical CVs and portfolios. I wanted mine to do two jobs at once: prove I can actually design and build, not just talk about it, and be genuinely impossible to forget.

So I set myself a brief no client would dare write. Instead of another scrolling page, I’d build an operating system, and put my whole story inside it.

02 The approach
  • A
    An interface everyone already knowsA full macOS desktop: menu bar, dock, draggable windows, folders, widgets and sticky notes. No instructions needed, you just start clicking. My CV sits on the desktop as a PDF, my work lives in folders, my story opens in Notes.
  • B
    One codebase, two operating systemsOn a phone it re-skins itself into iOS, a lock screen, a home screen of app icons, notifications and widgets. Same content, native-feeling on whatever you open it on.
  • C
    Details that reward curiosityA live clock and real weather widget, a working memory game, a startup chime and sonic branding, draggable windows and hand-written sticky notes with a bit of personality.
  • D
    Hand-built, no frameworkThe windowing, dragging, state and responsive OS-switching are all vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The medium is the message: the site is the proof of skill.
03 Two operating systems

Open it on a Mac,
open it on a phone.

The same portfolio reads your device and dresses for it. On a desktop it’s macOS: open a folder, drag a window, read the CV. On a phone it becomes iOS: tap an app, swipe the widgets, get a welcome notification. One codebase, two worlds.

nimrodgoma.netlify.app
Desktop · lock screen to a full macOS desktop
Mobile · lock screen to an iOS home screen
04 The outcome
2
Operating systems from one codebase · macOS & iOS
0
Frameworks · hand-coded vanilla JS, CSS & HTML
1
CV an employer actually plays with, and remembers

A portfolio that proves the point by existing. It shows the full range in one place, marketing, creative direction, design and code, and it makes a recruiter smile before they’ve read a word. Which is the whole job a CV is meant to do.

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