Musique & Formation
Designing a digital stage for someone
who already owns the real one.
Quick facts.
CLIENT : Michael Saura
ROLE : Brand, UI Design & Front-End Development
YEAR : 2026
TYPE : Visual identity + 4-page website (mobile-first, custom-coded)
TOOLS : Figma, Claude Code, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vercel
STATUS : Ongoing
that's it.
Michael Saura is a musician and composer with 40 years of stage experience. He'd built his career entirely offline, on reputation and word of mouth.
Now he wanted to pivot toward teaching: launching his coaching practice, attracting students, and being findable by singers looking for collaborators. He needed a site that captured both sides: the seasoned performer and the accessible teacher.
And he needed all of it built from scratch: identity, design, code, deployment.
what i learned.
Mobile-first isn't a preference, it's the only sane order. I started desktop, tried to scale down, and everything broke. Rebuilding mobile-first and expanding to desktop was twice the work and the lesson I won't forget.
Designing from scratch in code means owning every decision: spacing, animation timing, breakpoint behavior. There's nowhere to blame a template when something feels off.
A musician's site isn't about the music. It's about answering the visitor's real question: "can I trust this person with my voice / my song / my career?"
that's it.
