Case study
The UPLB Data Science Guild needed a public site for recruitment, events, and workshop sign-ups. The site had to feel like the student guild itself, not a placeholder page with a logo at the top.
Reasoning
A generic template would have shipped faster, but it would not explain the guild culture or make events easy to scan. A custom static site took more care up front and reduced maintenance later.
Choice
I led the visual direction and built a responsive static site with a simple content structure. The priority was clear event paths, readable sections, and a design system future officers could copy without asking a developer each time.
What I'd repeat
I set up preview checks around content changes so new event posts could be reviewed before they went public. That mattered because student org sites often break through rushed last-minute updates.
Outcome
The DSG site gave the guild a cleaner home for workshops and recruitment. It also proved that a zero-budget org project can still have deliberate design choices instead of settling for a copied template.
Postmortem: The next pass should move event content into a small editor-friendly format so non-developers can publish updates faster.
Impact: Design lead · org site · workshop sign-ups
