v0.2 Visual Redesign & Design Goals

[alacritythief]

Visual Redesign & Design Goals

This issue will be added on and updated.

Preface:

The overall purpose of YangSearch is to introduce Andrew Yang to people who are not familiar with him and allow users to easily find any policy, media item, or interview that's relevant to Andrew Yang.

My personal iteration process when building out an app is to focus on core functionality first, then refine design after. Features can change wildly as they're being worked on, so it's best to not go all-in on a design until we know how a feature is intended to work.

Immediate Goals:

• Since the site is about Andrew Yang, we need to update the logo and put his face on there.
  • Addressed in PR https://github.com/alacritythief/YangSearch/pull/11
• Simplify the blurb and move things like app updates to another page once React Router is added.
• Make it more obvious if certain links open to a page on the same site vs a new tab.
• Search bar will have multiple options to search either policies, media, or both https://github.com/alacritythief/YangSearch/issues/4
• Add the video page https://github.com/alacritythief/YangSearch/issues/8

Goals to keep in mind:

• The menu will expand as more features are added, make sure the design can deal with that without having to redo everything.
• Intend to make most content shareable.

[alacritythief]

Redesign has been completed with the current features. Will open a new issue if new features are added in the future.