Artist's Website

This project was executed entirely by myself. My roles were UX researcher, designer and front end developer. 

I saw and executed a 12 week project, in which I managed my time properly, defended my design decisions in checkpoint meetings with peers and an advisor, and utilized my "quick learner" skills to pick-up Adobe Xd and export my designs in code through Anima for the first time. 

This website will allow me to play around with google analytics in the coming months, and grow my own personal art business. 

12 weeks, with 4 checkpoints. At checkpoints I clearly articulated the newest designs or code implementation to a group of peers and my advisor. The checkpoints were outlined with goals to hit in a project proposal my advisor and I agreed on at the beginning of the semester. Each entailed around 2-4 deliverables per checkpoint. Leaning design heavy at the start and ending code intensive by the end of project. 

I started by looking at contemporary artist's websites, studying usability heuristics of each website, I liked sites with a consistent design format, prioritizing necessary content and features over design fluff, and easy navigation throughout the site. 

Because I was researching for a very specific type of website, I organized my research documentation by artist, and then the types of pages each had; landing, bio, exhibitions, contact, and works. Summarizing what worked for the website and what didn't. 

This research  provided a solution to a problem, selling my work on the website, something I wasn't sure how to implement the proper security for. However, I learned artists use enquiry forms for their art/ commissions, and a form was something I was very capable of implementing.