Hi all I’m Amy, I’ve volunteered to help out on the AMY.BO website refresh. I’m a data scientist with a small bit of experience in UX and a very small bit of web dev experience.
I’ve started this thread to use for feedback throughout the process, which I expect to take a few months (I have limited time each month) - though if anyone else has UX/ web development experience, then it’d be great to work together on this if you’re looking to help out!
To kick off, I’ve created a very rough wireframe using Figma - this is not clickable, as I figured we could iterate that if needed and otherwise just try out in dev - so it’s just some static frames to explore (1) the site map and (2) page layout and format. I’m very much not a designer so feel free to ignore any elements straying into this.
I would love to get feedback on this in general, and in particular on
layout
branding (e.g. colours, typefaces)
site map
what belongs on the forum vs these pages
pages to prioritise for dev
Thanks in advance & looking forward to collaborating
github.com/amy-bo/branding now has most of our current work on branding. It would be great to know from the experts what we should add there, so the website and all other collateral can flow from a common source. And with that in mind, if anything there doesn’t make sense from a branding or sustainability perspective - please do let us know.
Everyone’s welcome to join our next meeting, feel free to vote on it here Calendly or if none of those times work for you please let me know.
And thanks for kicking this off @Amy - yes, it’s a huge improvement on our current site. And well done @gerrit for adding the first comments in Figma. I’m now struggling to see how I found it difficult…
Thanks everyone for feedback so far! And thanks Martin for the branding repo, very useful.
This week we’re having a catch up (see Martin’s post above) on the wireframe feedback, and from my side this will act as the kick off for starting dev on the astro-based site. The wireframe is mainly a jumping off point for this so I won’t develop it further, just take the feedback and work it in to the site as it’s developed. It would be great to have any more feedback submitted before then.
@Martin@gerrit, for our meeting this week, it’d be great to discuss:
the sitemap proposed in the wireframe & whether there’s anything missing
if there’s anything that seems really out of place
priority pages to develop first
timelines / next steps
Anything else you’d like to chat through? Would be useful to know ahead of time so I can prep. Thanks!
Thanks @Amy
On your first three points, I’m wondering - since the current site’s pages are all in MD for Hugo and the new site’s pages will all be MD for Astro - whether the first question is how we map all the current pages to the new site and whether any are so out of date that they would be better deleted?
If so, would the timelines / next steps be:
Agree page mapping - all at meeting, with proposals in advance.
Agree Astro theme (assuming we want to start with a pre-made Docs theme, these are the options, Starlight won the last time I checked) - all at meeting, with proposals in advance.
Set up Astro with theme and mapped pages - @Martin one week from agreement of the above.
I’m Amy, I’ve volunteered to help out on the AMY.BO website refresh. I’m a data scientist with a small bit of experience in UX and a very small bit of web dev experience.