UniversityPublic2024

ESCC

Built in just a day and a half, ESCC is the official website for the ENSIA Sports & Culture Club. The platform was designed to showcase club activities, information timelines, and highlights. The site is highly praised for its unique, simple, and appealing design, with aggressive optimizations that enable it to run exceptionally fast on low end devices and poor network connections.

ESCC

About This Project

Designing and shipping a complete, highly optimized club portal in under 36 hours that presents activities and highlights cleanly, even under low-bandwidth networks.

Developed a lightweight Next.js landing page with customized components, stripped-down asset payloads, and minimal layout shift, optimizing loading speeds for student devices.

A highly performant, visually appealing portal completed in 1.5 days that successfully ran under bad network conditions during on campus club events.

Role

Frontend Developer

Year

2024

Status

Public

Type

University

Technology Stack

Next.jsReactTailwind CSSTypeScript

Project Story

The Challenge

Designing and shipping a complete, highly optimized club portal in under 36 hours that presents activities and highlights cleanly, even under low-bandwidth networks.

The Approach

Developed a lightweight Next.js landing page with customized components, stripped-down asset payloads, and minimal layout shift, optimizing loading speeds for student devices.

The Outcome

A highly performant, visually appealing portal completed in 1.5 days that successfully ran under bad network conditions during on campus club events.

Insights & Takeaways

Highlights

  • Completed and delivered in just a 1.5-day development sprint.
  • Aggressively optimized for ultra-fast loading times on low end mobile devices and slow network environments.
  • Clean and unique presentation design highlighting events, departments, and team members.

Challenges

  • Meeting strict timeline constraints (36-hour delivery) while maintaining high design appeal and visual responsiveness.
  • Reducing asset payload sizes to accommodate poor university Wi-Fi speeds.

Lessons Learned

  • Proved that aggressive bundle size optimization and asset scaling can yield near-instantaneous page loads, even on weak connections.

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