I’m redesigning my site. If you’ve been around here at all, you’re probably thinking “but Chat, you just did that in December!” Well, yes, I did. But that was more of a triage. Taking a broken website and fixing it so that it had the bare minimum usability.
One thing I’m very proud of with the triage design: total images for the entire site (not counting any images I add for specific posts, like this one) are about 3.7kb. You read that right. 3.7 kilobytes. Not 370 kilobytes. Not 37 kilobytes. 3.7.
The new design will be a bit heavier than that, but I’m going to try to stay true to the principles of lean and mean. I’ve spent months trying to come up with a design that reflects me. Months before the redesign I was trying to create a new design. One road I went down was a three dimensional wall look. Another had me trying to creative an illustrated look. That second one definitely isn’t me but I wanted to grow who I was as a designer.
I’ll keep working on the growth thing but, in the meantime, the new site I’m designing represents who I am right now. And that’s a minimalist designer with a love of iconography and type. I’m including a mockup of the new homepage here.
Mockup of new homepage
After trying to come up with something for six months, when I finally let go I designed the new homepage in two hours.
