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[rviscomi]

Join the @HTTPArchive/designers team and work with web developers to improve and create new user experiences on the Web Almanac website. Comment in this issue if you're interested.

Browse open issues tagged with design

[shantsis]

Interested in helping out

[GeekBoySupreme]

Hey @rviscomi would love to help out with the design

[rviscomi]

Great, thank you both! Do any of the open design issues interest you @shantsis @GeekBoySupreme?

[shantsis]

@rviscomi I left a comment on #1764 a few days ago. I can look at others too and pick up some more.

[GeekBoySupreme]

@rviscomi would love to pick up #1237 to start off

[tunetheweb]

Cool! Excited to see some thoughts on these.

[GeekBoySupreme]

I was wondering if we should keep a largely same visual theme for this year.
Or we can try going a bit on the overdrive

[tunetheweb]

I was wondering if we should keep a largely same visual theme for this year.
Or we can try going a bit on the overdrive

That's a very good question, and I thought I'd raised an issue on that but maybe I just planned on doing that but never got round to it.

I think there's pros and cons to a refresh or full design:

Stick with what we have

• It works well
• We've created a Web Almanac brand with the consistency and items like the book, and social media imagery.
• Would be consistent across years
• A lot of effort has gone into the current design to make it accessible, performant, internationalisible.
• Less work

Redesign

• After two years do we need a refresh?
• Would we move old years or keep them on same design? How would that work for consistency? What about things like year-switcher when going between years?

Alternatively we could go for a smaller refresh, where we just refresh the images. Or maybe have a slightly different theme colour and/or home page, but leave the header and footer stay largely the same to avoid some of the concerns above.

What's your thoughts?

[GeekBoySupreme]

Makes sense. Avoids huge re-writes and maintains a consistency.

[shantsis]

Keeping what we have makes sense. I suppose if there's possible enhancements we see within other issues we can bring them up.

[rviscomi]

One very small thing that I think might still be doable for 2020+ is to change the accent color:

Is there a palette of accent colors that would work nicely with the background color for each year? Since the year is displayed prominently in this accent color, it may be a good way to distinguish each annual edition at a glance. We could retroactively change 2020 so that each year has a different accent color, or maybe the current year is always yellow but past years change color. Not sure. Thoughts?