Six degrees between the live page and the scenes
Your objection was right on three points: not human enough, too much digital bank, a little pretentious. All three come from the same cause: a centred title set in the middle of a landscape is a pose, and a landscape cannot be human.
The six go from the closest to the live page to the closest to the scenes. Every coloured block is an image placeholder.
1. Photo band closest to the live page
The current page, with an image band at the top. The content does not move by a pixel. The bare minimum to stop floating, and zero pretension: it is a website, not a campaign.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.
Alexandre Corne
Aerospace engineer.
2. Split
Full-height photo on the right, content on the left. It is the structure of alexandrecorne.com. Half of the screen is taken, so the void disappears, and nothing is centred, so nothing plays SaaS hero.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.
3. Photo cadrée
The image becomes an object in the page, with margins around it, like a photo laid on a sheet. The most restrained gesture of the six: shown without invading.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.
4. Fond atténué
The photo is in the background but washed with 88% white. An atmosphere and a temperature remain, but the text sits on paper. It is the arithmetic midpoint between the live page and the scenes.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.
Alexandre Corne
Aerospace engineer.
5. Pleine page, alignée à gauche
The full-page image of the scenes, but the content comes back to the left. The title centred in the middle of a landscape is exactly what said digital bank: left-aligned, you keep the image and lose the pose.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.
6. Your portrait carries the page the most human
No landscape at all: you, full height on the left. An airport runway cannot be human, a person can. The only one of the six that truly answers your objection, and the one that depends most on this morning's photo.
Your next career move,
engineered.
Three years inside French aerospace and defence. Now on the other side of the hiring table.