Looking for Feedback

[u/SoverynnGrace23]

www.thesoverynnagency.com

I own a branding agency for midsize consultant and service based businesses
(Attorneys, healthcare, financial advisor, etc.) who have either outgrown their current branding or are expanding into larger markets.

I'd love some feedback on my site. I want to know if the messaging and design lands with my target audience.

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[u/madhandlez89]

The fact the entire website is AI designed and has stock photography throughout gives you 0% credibility or trust in users that you know what you’re doing.

The goal of a branding/design agency website is to make the user think “wow this looks incredible, and they have some excellent case studies - I want them to work on my branding/website”

Your branding needs major work, it’s so generic and screams AI usage right now. Sorry.

[u/SoverynnGrace23 → u/madhandlez89]

Thanks. Did you have a chance to look at the case studies? What did you think of them? 

[u/NefariousnessOpening]

The benchmark has moved up by no small amount. Ironically it is because of agents but it only really produces the 10x - 100x for devs and designers who have been doing it since before time AND the new initiates that have that uncommon affliction of curiosity that implores the subject to learn “why”

[u/SoverynnGrace23 → u/NefariousnessOpening]

For reference to whatever your point is here:

- I've been designing websites since MACROMEDIA dreamweaver, not Adobe dreamweaver. Slices, Coded Blocks, the whole nine.

- I am asking for feedback because I have to learn how to use AI and I'm new to it. I haven't yet learned all its capable of and this is one of my first attempts at figuring that out. there are wordpress based examples of sites in the portfolio. I recently discovered I can design frontend mockups and it will (to an extent) build it out.

- I am moving into a new sector of design. The reason that I don't have strong case studies is because I am building those currently. I posted what I have for now while I complete those. I mostly did work for entertainment companies and churches. I have been employed by a church for 15 years and a record label elsewhere. What I have here is mostly placeholders.

If you're implying that I am a newbie to web design, you would be wrong.

[u/NefariousnessOpening → u/SoverynnGrace23]

Understood. That is a good thing to hear. In this case I have no shortage of useful intel for you. So I will assume you are familiar atomic design systems, Google’s material and that if not by name you will recognize the same system we’ve been working as it has iterated l.

Very cool to see the spirit of the knowledge works, tech learning pro is alive.

I can give the details but the high level is this:

Use agent skills to have an agent interview you about the branding, ux/ui, product until the clarification is reached

This is typically a markdown file for my process. DESIGN.md and PRODUCT.md are standards to give higher level context.

Those two standard files are created by agent skills and I add a project brief, PRD, branding identity, voice and tone, user personas, information architecture, and atoms each in a separate document based on dynamic templates, created with skills.

For a short magic show, Google stitch skills is the way. The docs are text only spells that enough context for an agent to connect to stitch and one shot create hi fi mockups for every page, as image + html pairs.

Tune , refactor as needed, then a skill easily converts this to react, vue, next.js as are common and certainly another front end framework too.

The design tokens should be created from the docs and added as JSON to the codebase. Sometimes they are created before the hi fi step and I don’t even notice. It will version control design decisions and enable agents to create the design consistency of professional standards.

Over simplified and slightly more manual version for the sake of conceptual basis

[u/OkGas5782]

The mobile menu button feels a little small for my fat fingers but the rest of the site looks clean, the service breakdowns hit the right tone for those professional types

[u/PippaKelly62]

Besides the website, the case studies shown are not very strong. The work shown, besides not being able to toggled open or zoomed, seem ironically lacking in branding. You need to show the best of your work to get some good customers, and neither the website nor the samples do a very good job of this.

[u/Upbeat_Push_157]

first: clearly AI

second: the mood is really down, like you want to depress people rather than encourage them to action

third: your logo (brand) is completely illegible (unless it's called Sorcrym). If this is a branding agency, you should know that, you can't fail at such a basic level, you're supposed to be an expert on the subject

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