Yarn had a new website design ready, but no one free to build it. We rebuilt the site from the ground up as a free contribution to the open-source community, and launched a month ahead of schedule.
We partnered with Lokman and the Lucky Media team for a couple of months to rebuild the Yarn website based on a new design we had commissioned but didn't have the bandwidth to implement.
Their help was critical, making us gain weeks of work and letting us focus on our core project. They communicated well, periodically sharing updates and always remaining open to feedback. I'm very grateful for their help and would recommend them to anyone looking for a partner to help them with their projects.
Maël Nison
Lead Maintainer @ YarnMillions of developers rely on Yarn, and its website is where many of them first discover it. The site wasn’t broken, but it was holding the team back.
A new design with no one to build it
Yarn had commissioned a new website design, but its small team didn’t have time to build it. Even minor updates to the old site took real effort, and every hour spent on the website was an hour taken away from Yarn itself.
A big launch on the horizon
A major new version of Yarn was coming, and with it a surge of visitors. For a tool known for speed, a slow website would make a poor first impression on everyone arriving to try it.
A site that was hard to find your way around
Package pages had confusing links, and the site lacked the modern touches visitors expect. Finding the right information took more effort than it should.
Yarn launched its new website ahead of its version release, without pulling its team away from the product.
Under two months to go live: We delivered the full rebuild a month ahead of schedule.
Near-perfect quality scores: Performance went from 85 to 99, and accessibility and best practices both reached 100.
Ready for launch-day traffic: Package search returns results instantly, even during the traffic peak from the new version launch.
Easier to find what you need: We redesigned the package pages with clean, readable links and clear visual feedback while content loads.
Time back for the team: Updates now take minutes instead of a developer’s afternoon, so Yarn’s engineers can focus on Yarn.
99
Lighthouse Performance
100
Lighthouse Accessibility
100
Lighthouse Best Practices
We approached this project as contributors, not contractors. There was no invoice, no scope negotiation, and no change requests. We built what we believed Yarn deserved, to the standard we hold ourselves to.
That meant designing around the two groups who use the site: the developers who visit it, and the small team who maintain it. Visitors get a fast, easy site. The team gets a website that no longer competes with the product for their time.
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