Site upgrade | 1. The brief

ByTeganwCategoriesInUXPosted onOn

It’s lazy, or efficient, to have your personal website on a WordPress template that someone else designed and built.
In the case of the template I use, despite claiming to be a ‘minimalist’ template, in fact it has incredible flexibility built in, with about a million template options, and a million more plugins. So even though my homepage is three lines of text, it loads infuriatingly slowly.
So I’ve decided to DIY it, however long it takes, and use it as an opportunity to mimic what goes on in some of the teams I’ve worked on, and get a broad idea of the tools and skills my colleagues have been using.
So for now I guess I’m the client. And I have the easy and fun job of creating a brief.


The Brief

Redo your dumb personal website

  • New IA geared towards exploration, rather than straight to contact
  • Visual redesign
  • New content
  • No downtime bc time is money
  • No downturn in traffic (lol)

Criteria

  • Explore host and CMS options
  • Free user research only because we’re not made of money (IRL: there are no users, soo)
  • Site should champion the new Tegan brand
  • Best practice everything
  • Minimum one (1) spectacular (high effort) element

So, next post I’ll get to breaking this down into tasks and people.

Will this project be fun? It’s more likely to make me want to die.
Will I come out with a better website? Almost certainly not.
Will I learn something? Probably.

Let’s just jump in and see.