Educational redesign concept
Project overview
I redesigned the visible Busy Corner Restaurant website as a self-contained classroom project. The concept focuses on the restaurant's strongest qualities - homemade comfort food, memorable pies, and a welcoming small-town atmosphere - without copying the original source code or layout.
The challenge
The original website contained useful information, but the presentation did not give enough visual emphasis to the restaurant's food, history, or signature pies. The redesign needed clearer navigation, stronger calls to action, better mobile readability, and a more consistent hospitality-focused identity.
Design solution
I created a warm cream, deep red, brown, and pie-crust color palette; used large food photography; simplified the navigation to five primary pages; organized the menu into readable cards; created a dedicated pie gallery; and built an on-site contact form demonstration.
Process
I reviewed the public-facing site, identified its content priorities, planned a new information architecture, selected placeholder photography, wrote original semantic HTML, created responsive CSS, added a mobile menu, and tested every internal page and link.
Technologies
What I learned
This project showed how visual hierarchy and information architecture can help a familiar local business communicate its personality more effectively. It also reinforced the importance of designing around the customer's main goals: finding the menu, viewing signature items, checking restaurant information, and making contact.
Image note: Pie photographs are temporary placeholders used only to demonstrate the classroom layout. A production redesign would require approved restaurant photography and verified menu content.