Whistler House Museum of Art
Class Project: Website Redesign
For this project, I was tasked with a hypothetical redesign of the Whistler House Museum of Art. I researched the current site, had "customer" interviews with my professor, and created an elevator pitch. After creating the website, I had take my redesign and convert it to fit a mobile format. I learned a lot about prototyping and understanding pain points to create a better experience.
This is the before and after of the homepage for the website.
I started with research from the current site and looked at a few competitor sites for other museums to see what did and didn't work for them.
Then I created an elevator pitch, a persona for an ideal customer, a style tile for how I plan to design the new site, and a site map for my wireframes.
I wanted to give the website a modern look to attract the younger audiences. I kept their main colors and added an olive green for contrast. I used a combination of a slab-serif and san-serif typeface to update the look whilst keeping in touch with the historic and cozy feel of the museum itself.
Website redesign play-through.
Then I worked on mobile wireframes and restructured the website desktop design to be compatible on a mobile device.
