Lesson 2:

Website Studies from a Designer’s Perspective

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Lesson Overview

In this lesson, we will be looking at different types of websites and inspecting them from a designer’s perspective. We’ll study their structure and discuss the strategies behind their design.

This lesson includes 4 videos with a reflection question at the end:

  1. Introduction to Types of Websites
  2. Business & E-Commerce Websites
  3. Personal & Portfolio Websites
  4. Portfolio Website Deep Dive from Flux Academy

Tip for watching this series: If you hover your mouse over a video, you can click the gear icon on the bottom right to change the speed of the video.

1. Introduction to Types of Websites

Note: Apologies for the short glitches in this recording. They have been resolved in the following videos.

Websites featured:

2. Business & E-Commerce Websites

Websites featured:

3. Personal & Portfolio Websites

Websites featured:

4. Flux Academy Portfolio Website Review

This is a freelance portfolio review by Flux Academy that I’m sharing with you because it provides a lot of great insight into how to design strategically, intentionally, and effectively. Flux Academy was one of my greatest educational sources when I started practicing web design (and is a channel I highly recommend you watch). What I learned from this video and all of their content ultimately became the framework for how I approach every website design project.

Websites featured:

  • Danbee Shin (freelance web design & coaching portfolio)

Reflection Question:

It’s a different experience looking at a website as a user and looking at a website as a designer…

What is a lesson or topic you learned about that surprised you?

(Perhaps you had a misconception about web design or there was something about websites that you never noticed before.)

For Further Study (optional):

This section shares additional resources to continue exploring these topics, including ones that I personally found helpful when I started designing.