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Simplicity Is Key — Website Design for Megan Diana

A Squarespace website for pianist and composer Megan McGeorge — built over a weekend, launched within a week, and designed around a single concept: let the music speak for itself.

Client Megan McGeorge
Role UX/UI & Web Designer
Year 2016
Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, Squarespace
Deliverables Squarespace Site, Page Layouts, Visual Design
Credits Photography: Megan McGeorge, Benji Vuong
⚠︎ Archived Project/Design — The current live site reflects post-launch updates by other designers.

A musician's website built on one clear idea — let the music do the talking.

Megan McGeorge and I first crossed paths through Piano. Push. Play. — and when she needed a website to showcase her music releases and projects, she reached out directly. The brief was refreshingly focused: simple, clean, easy to maintain, and built around her photography. Black and white images with a deliberate splash of hot pink. No clutter, no noise — just the music. We had a weekend to land on a concept, build the site, and launch it within the week. That kind of timeline sharpens every decision.

A pianist with no digital home — and one week to fix that.

Megan needed a presence online that felt as intentional as her music — somewhere fans, concert goers, and collaborators could find her releases and projects quickly and easily. The challenge wasn't complexity, it was restraint. Keeping the design simple enough to let the content lead, while still feeling polished and professional.

The Brief Design and build a simple Squarespace website for a pianist and composer — visually clean, easy to maintain independently, and launched within a week.
The Challenge Designing with restraint on a tight timeline — keeping the scope focused so the site could be built, polished, and launched in days without compromising the quality of the result.
Scope Full Squarespace site including visual design, page layouts, photography manipulation, domain connection, and handoff — built and launched in under a week.

Black, white, and a deliberate splash of pink.

The design concept came together quickly — black and white photography with hot pink as a spot color to emphasize key sections, rules, and important moments. A fully customizable Squarespace template gave us the level of enhancement we needed while keeping the site easy to update independently after handoff. Megan provided the photography, I manipulated the images to fit within the brand color scheme.

Homepage & Site Design

Squarespace Adobe Photoshop

Large photography, strategic typography, and a clean white background keep the focus entirely on Megan's music. Hot pink appears sparingly — in banner sections, rules, and accent elements — giving the site personality without overwhelming it.

Megan Diana homepage

Interior Pages

Squarespace

Each section of the site was designed to surface content cleanly — events, recordings, projects, and videos all given their own space without competing for attention.

Megan Diana about page
Megan Diana project page
Megan Diana video page
Megan Diana music page

A weekend turnaround and a lesson in keeping scope small.

Working with Megan was a natural collaboration — we had already built a working relationship through Piano. Push. Play., so the communication was easy and the trust was already there. That made the tight timeline manageable. The biggest takeaway from this project was something I've carried forward: when designing on a quick turnaround, the best course of action is to keep the project scope small and focused. Trying to do everything in a weekend leads to a site that feels unfinished. Doing one thing well leads to a site that feels intentional. Megan was ultimately very pleased with the result and continued to use and promote the site alongside her music.

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