project2

A dream of accessible and supported food shelves

Overview

Challenge

Design and develop and comprehensive website and brand that communicates the need food shelves in the United States have for volunteers and supplies.

SOLUTION

Create a full design plan for the site by creating a logo and color scheme that is carefully selected, develop a creative brief, create a navigation, site architecture, and funnel plan. After this planning stage, begin designing wireframes and prototypes for the website. Lastly, develop the site with HTML, CSS, and PHP.

ROLE

Web Developer, Brand Strategist

TIME

8 weeks

TASK

Website and branding

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Filezilla, Mailchimp, GoDaddy

Laptop open with website

project2 website mockup

Reflection

Looking Back

This was my first project working with brand and web development, and overall I believe it was well done. From a UX designer’s standpoint, their are many areas of the website that I could have made more accessible; an example would be on the home page where I chose to have no navigation bar background solely for aesthetic reasons, but this may make it more difficult on certain devices to see some of the menu items. A bright color scheme was also used to attract a younger target audience, but no considerations were taken for those who may have impaired vision or color blindness. If I were to do this project again I would more carefully consider these when making decisions.

Moving Forward

From this project I now have experience using HTML, CSS, and PHP to create a website. With these aquired skills, I am excited that I will better understand how to communicate to front end developers as a UX designer.