Contest // Contest · May 2025 · 2nd place

Rebuilding a “destroyed” website against the clock

How I approached the ASU UI/UX Contest V5 brief, starting on paper, and what earned second place.

The brief

Each contestant received a broken interior-design website, “destroyed” on purpose: misaligned sections, random spacing and a pile of raw assets. The task was to rebuild it into a clear, usable page under time pressure.

One of the “destroyed” pages we were given.

Paper before Figma

With the clock running, the fastest thing was not to open Figma. I spent the first minutes on paper, deciding the order of the page: navigation, hero, three feature cards, a product grid, an inspiration gallery and the footer. Once the structure was fixed, every minute in Figma went into detail instead of rearranging.

The result

The redesign won second place in UI/UX Contest V5 at ASU’s Faculty of Information Technology. The lesson I took away: structure is the fastest design tool you have.

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