Website redesign

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Extracting this from the accessibility team roadmap so it’s more visible - connecting the dots between existing issues. Private planning doc: 2026 Django website redesign - planning

Tasks

Discovery

• djangoproject.com - User research report by 20tab #1496
• Marketing strategy
  • At least the bigger picture - what the website needs to show ("Django’s relevance in 2025")
  • (Possibly renewing the vision for the framework a bit)
• As-is brand guidelines: dsf-design-assets
• User research: User research report by 20tab
  • More user research? 20tab report was focused on difficulties of current site users
• ⌛️ Redesign brief: private WIP brief (outline)
• Site usage analytics #2288
• (Website content strategy)
• (Website moodboard - see Django 20th birthday moodboard)
• User journey mapping / information architecture for the site (see fundraising WG work)

Design

• Design mockups, possibly low-fidelity prototypes
• Component-driven visual design / design system / pattern library
• Section-level visual design

Build

Current plan: incremental delivery by existing volunteer resources based on design mockups that reflect the long-term goal

Supporting tasks

• Website WG creation
• Website redesign high-level planning
• Accessibility team roadmap
• UX/UI/IA capacity building
  • Reach out to Lilian about UI/UX contributors
  • Reach out on Open Source Design (with Saptak input)
  • Website redesign announcement
  • Call to discuss project plan & availability
  • List UX / UI / brand designers and user researchers currently active in our community
• Marketing capacity building
  • Marketing WG proposal
• Website preview environment setup