Day 7 of 30 Day UI/UX Design Challenge: Modernising an Outdoor Pool Website! 🏊🏻‍♀️

🎨 Today’s design task

Thanks to our hungry cat Teto 🐈‍⬛, I had an early start today. After creating a poster this morning (detailed at the end), I tackled today’s challenge in the evening. After yesterday’s struggles, I was eager to dive in, knowing it could only go up from here!

Here is the original website:

🚀 My design process

1. Gathered existing images from the current homepage

2. Identified essential nav bar and homepage elements

3. Researched other swimming websites for inspiration

4. Sketched a lo-fi design

   

5. Transferred the lo-fi design to Figma

   

6. Selected colours and typography

   

7. Designed header and navigation menu

8. Created a hero section with a featured photo

9. Developed an image carousel component

   

10. Designed an information section (with a pool-shaped image layout). I struggled with price section using green initially.

    

11. Built a ticket section outlining purchase steps (I tried to make a form but decided not to include)

    

12. Crafted a footer (originally planned dark, but time constraints led to a white design)

    

13. Final touches: colour adjustments and alignment fixes

🧠 Challenges and solutions

• Incorporating red without overpowering the design
• Time management (Today it took 3 hours for design, usually 2.5 hours plus 30 minutes for blogging)
• Mentor feedback:
  • Red dot before title might imply being closed; and green for “open”
  • Improve contrast in right ticket area
  • Fix vertical alignment in left ticket area
  • Refine footer icon (currently looks spiky)

🖼️ The final design

I’m pleased with the overall result, though the ticket purchase section could use some refinement.

💡 What I learned today

Investing time in a simple lo-fi design smoothed the design process.

⏰ If I had more time

• Remove the logo background colour and make the letter white for a darker footer design
• Implement mentor’s suggestions

💌 Any thoughts?

What projects are you working on? I’d love to hear your thoughts on my design or any advice!

Thanks for following Day 7 of my challenge. See you tomorrow for Day 8!

With love and light 🫶🏻
Yoshie

P.S. I completed a poster for the Open Call by https://verlagegegenrechts.de/ today. Learning to use the iPad and Procreate (a gift from my partner for this opportunity) was challenging but rewarding. As a child, I gave up drawing thinking I lacked talent. I still don’t think I have a special talent but now I know that it’s about learning and growing. I hope my painting conveys the beauty of inclusiveness, compassion, kindness, and love 💕