Muet4U

About Client

MUET4U is a website that aims to connect MUET students to a trained MUET tutor for 1-to-1 online tutoring. The aim of this website was to make it easier for the tutor to reach out to potential students without having to rely solely on word-of-mouth and traditional means of passing contact details through friends of friends and former students. It was also to cut down on the overhead required to schedule sessions with students and enquiries they have towards the tutoring sessions itself.

Services Rendered

The owners contracted me to build the website from scratch for them. These included:

• Procuring the domain
• Prototyping and designing the website based on samples
• Securing the web server and plugins required
• Building and optimising the website
• Maintaining the website on a freelance basis post-launch

Takeaways & Outcomes

The owners did not have much experience with running a website, much less designing one from scratch so this was one of the rare instances I was given full freedom to create a website from scratch. It was interesting to have to create an identity for another party who do not have one.

I struck a balance between simplicity and familiarity for both the owners and potential clients. Since the business is young, I focused on the bare necessities to avoid cluttering the website with features that looked good on paper but would ultimately not be used by the target demographic. 

The target demographic played a significant role in the design and features that went into this website. Malaysians are still fond of conducting planning and online learning through phone calls and WhatsApp messenges, so I leveraged them into the final design of the website instead of opting for more sophisticated, yet complicated solutions.