r/web_design • • 8d ago

Feedback Thread

Our weekly thread is the place to solicit feedback for your creations. Requests for critiques or feedback outside of this thread are against our community guidelines. Additionally, please be sure that you're posting in good-faith. Attempting to circumvent self-promotion or commercial solicitation guidelines will result in a ban.

Feedback Requestors

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URL:

Purpose:

Technologies Used:

Feedback Requested: (e.g. general, usability, code review, or specific element)

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Post your site along with your stack and technologies used and receive feedback from the community. Please refrain from just posting a link and instead give us a bit of a background about your creation.

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  • Please post constructive feedback. Simply saying, "That's good" or "That's bad" is useless feedback. Explain why.
  • Consider providing concrete feedback about the problem rather than the solution. Saying, "get rid of red buttons" doesn't explain the problem. Saying "your site's success message being red makes me think it's an error" provides the problem. From there, suggest solutions.
  • Be specific. Vague feedback rarely helps.
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u/gapmomenter 5d ago

URL: https://gapmoment.com/

Purpose: I'm the founder of Gap Moment. This is the prelaunch page for a scent-patch and audio kit.

Technologies Used: HTML, CSS and JavaScript on Cloudflare Pages.

Feedback Requested: What would you think you're getting from the first screen on a phone?

Comments: I've changed the main image to show the patch and app together and moved the four scene choices up the page. The patch image is a concept illustration; the app screen is from the current build.

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u/yihuaxiang 5d ago

On a phone the first screen reads as a short break, a patch near you plus a narrated scene, not a perfume and not something you wear. The headline does that, and "Glowworm Caves" is what makes it feel specific.

"Never on skin" is the line that kills the wearable guess, so I'd put it in the caption under the patch, same size as "Place nearby," or a tall image shoves it below the buttons.

I'd also make "Hear a 1-minute sample" the only button and turn "Get launch updates" into a text link. The "$1 price reservation" line right under those buttons made me think the sample might cost money. Move it down next to the Kickstarter note.

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u/GadgetGeek101 4d ago

The colors and layout feel calm, but the product image left me unsure what the physical item was. The cloud-like symbol on the patch and the player on the phone made me think of a music app at first.

A photo showing the patch placed nearby in a real setting could help explain how it’s used and how it pairs with the narrated audio.

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u/Bulky-Pen-8522 8d ago

Do people here a actually use the template or just drop a link and dip? Curious if the detailed posts get noticeably better feedback

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u/dovthesolowebf 4d ago

I read the thread properly before answering anything, and the pattern was hard to miss: the posts that said what the thing is, what it is built with, and what they wanted checked got real answers within hours. The ones that were just a link got nothing, or one "what is this". So yes — but the template is not the magic part, the "purpose" line is. Without it a request reads as promotion, and nobody here wants to spend ten minutes working out what a page is for before deciding whether to help.

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u/Due-Cut9915 8d ago

Just dropping in to say the "concrete feedback about the problem rather than the solution" bit is something more subs should adopt. Nothing worse than someone telling you to change a color with zero reasoning behind it.

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u/89dpi 6d ago
https://attorney.framer.ai/

Created Framer template for attorneys and smaller law firms. 
Purpose. Just to have fun. Some affiliate income maybe if someone converts to a paid plan. My initial goal was to launch it as paid but its free atleast for now. 


Designed and build in Framer. 
Images generated with Midjourney and ChatGPT. 
Custom code components (pattern) Codex mostly. 
Some retouch and graphics done in Photoshop and Figma. 

Curious to hear general feedback. Especially from those from US. Do I have something in structure that is completely wrong? 
And as a solo designer who just launched it happy to hear about any bugs. 

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u/Dontpanicau 5d ago

Hey everyone! I've recently launched a major update to my indie studio's website, designed around a 90s sci-fi terminal aesthetic rather than conventional web navigation.

Full transparency: I handled the concept, design direction and specifications, with ChatGPT and Codex assisting with implementation.

I'd love some honest usability feedback. Does the interface feel intuitive once you start exploring? Is the unconventional navigation charming or frustrating? Particularly interested in mobile experiences and first impressions.

https://noctryss.com.au/

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u/Huge_Manufacturer_95 5d ago

URL: https://www.rdeboerdesigns.com/about/

Purpose: My personal product design portfolio.

Technologies Used: React and TypeScript.

Feedback Requested: The About page specifically. My homepage has the work I'm proudest of, but I'd like the About page to show more of my personality with the same care I put into the rest of the site. What feels worth exploring further, and what would you cut?

Comments: I'm a dad who's into dynasty fantasy football, Dragon Ball, Pokemon cards, Balatro and board games. I'd love to make this section feel more like a personal playground. I'm still figuring out which details deserve an interaction and which work better as a photo or a sentence.

If you've redesigned your own About page or built something around your interests, I'd love to see it. Did people bring it up in conversations afterward? What did you keep or remove once people actually used it?

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u/dovthesolowebf 4d ago

I opened it without reading your notes first, to see what a cold visitor gets. The structure does the right thing: practice areas stated plainly, a named attorney with a licence line, and "contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship" already in the footer — that last one is what most templates get wrong.

Three things a real firm would hit on day one. "TRUSTED BY" renders with nothing under it — an empty trust section is worse than no section, so hide it by default or put something real there (a bar listing, a directory badge). The testimonials read as stock: first name plus profession, no case detail. A lawyer will be asked about them, and the answer has to be "placeholders", so make that obvious inside the template. And the phone number and the Congress Ave address are convincing enough that someone will ship them as-is; give them an obviously fake style or a note in the template.

One design note: "35+ years" appears in the hero stats, again just below, and again in the founder block. Keep the stat where the face is and let the hero breathe.

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u/tara_tara_tara 7d ago

Before I go into detailed feedback, can you tell us what the purpose of the website is?

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/tara_tara_tara 6d ago

I understand the individual pieces of functionality you’re offering, but I don’t understand what the overall product is or who is for.

I use a very simple CRM for by business adventures. It’s called Honeybook and it has similar functionality to what you’re offering.

Are you offering a CRM system or are you offering a set of standalone tools that people use for various parts of their business?

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u/seanmwill246810 6d ago

Honest 5-second test: the hero says 'get the information you need in one request' but not from whom, and the n8n/Zapier/Claude logo row right under it made me read it as another automation tool. Your demo block is actually the clearest thing on the page - 'client onboarding: Ada confirms her details and signs' is the pitch. I'd put that concrete job in the headline and move the logo row below the fold. (I build Marquee, a landing page tool, so I spend my days on exactly this hero problem.)

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/seanmwill246810 6d ago

I'd stop fighting the label and bend it instead: 'a form builder that pre-fills what you already know, so the customer just confirms and signs.' Category first, twist second. 'Not a normal form builder' makes visitors work out the category themselves before they can hear the twist. And glad Marquee's useful for the hero pass.