---
title: "mfyz.com homepage design update"
description: "A homepage design update for mfyz.com is detailed, focusing on improved usability and aesthetics. The changes aim to better showcase recent posts with subtle category-based visualizations and a more consistent, colorful tone."
slug: mfyz-com-homepage-design-update
date: 2020-10-12
url: https://mfyz.com/?p=564
tags:
  [
    "blog design",
    "website redesign",
    "homepage update",
    "ux",
    "ui",
    "web design",
    "personal blog",
  ]
category: Creative
migration: { "wpId": 564, "wpPostDate": "2020-10-12T11:38:53.000Z" }
---

It's been forever that I haven't put any aesthetics filter on my blog's design. For years (in Turkish version) I've custom coded my site many times over. It hosted a lot of my development ideas and acted as a playground for me.

![](/images/archive/en/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-12-at-2.26.50-PM.jpg)

But then I realized I only want to focus on my writing after having a long multi-year break on pushing any updates on my blog. Now I approach it more disciplined with a content calendar, a growing list of ideas to write about. I still think it lacks a "focus" but hey, that's probably how my brain is in these years.

I've switched to WordPress a few years ago and have been finding WordPress to be a beautiful platform to use for many different purposes which I find some topics pretty interesting like using WordPress as headless cms for - let's say a mobile application.

Without a particular motivation, I wanted to re-evaluate both functionality/usability and some design elements to break the monotone nature the current blog ended up at (because most of what I write is not visual anymore, mostly my thoughts on stuff). I wanted to bring some visual cues even if they are abstract patterns or shapes. I love geometry and I find my blog's overall theme to match perfectly with some design and the creative world but more skewed towards engineering-backed topics. That's why I look at what I do much more like architecting a digital product rather than just coding it up, or design (which is not my strong suit).

I hope the new homepage design introduces little but more usability to whoever reading my blog and when they visit the homepage, to be able to scan my latest posts, with a subtle category-based visualization and a little bit more consistent-colorful tone.

At some point, I still want to bring back the regular feed-like flow along with this current design.

I'm also working on possible updates on other parts of the site which will be more subtle changes and/or will be very much aligned with this new design approach.

Let me know in the comments, how you feel about this new design approach and the way I explained if there is anything surprising or if you have any feedback.