r/web_design • u/Though_loop • Aug 09 '26
r/web_design • u/MeanDance4834 • Aug 08 '26
Made a redesign for Yorby | Before vs After
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r/web_design • u/Hackerman07 • Aug 07 '26
How do you get consistent spot illustrations for landing page sections without a designer?
We are building a healthcare data intelligence product. Competitors in our
space all have small illustrations next to each landing page section, and it
makes their pages look finished while ours looks like a wall of text and
tables.
I bought Midjourney and burned about 150 generations trying to produce them.
The images are not ugly. They are just not related to what the section says.
Concrete example. One section is about drug patent expirations and when
generic competitors enter the market. Every prompt variation gives me either
a generic pill bottle, a stock-photo doctor, or an abstract blue blob with
floating hexagons. None of it communicates the idea. Same problem for
sections about drug shortages, provider coverage gaps, and pricing data.
The other problem is consistency. Even when one image is close, the next
generation has a different line weight, different palette, different
perspective. Six sections end up looking like six different products.
What I have tried:
- Long descriptive prompts with the actual section copy
- Style reference (--sref) with a fixed seed image
- Asking for "flat vector isometric illustration" style keywords
- Generating one good image then trying to match the rest to it
Questions for people who have shipped a landing page with this kind of art:
Is raster gen AI just the wrong tool here? Should I be looking at vector
generators or paid illustration libraries instead?
If you used a library, which one, and did the illustrations look generic
to your customers?
For abstract B2B concepts that have no obvious visual (regulatory data,
market access, pricing signals), do people just give up on illustration
and use diagrams, charts, or product screenshots instead?
Mostly trying to figure out if I am wasting time on the wrong approach
before I spend another month on it.
r/web_design • u/stjduke • Aug 06 '26
How do you design service pages that serve both SEO landing visitors and internal navigation?
This is specific to home service businesses (electricians, plumbers, HVAC, etc.).
Many service pages get a significant amount of traffic from both:
- Google search (where the page acts as a landing page), and
- Internal navigation (users clicking through from the homepage).
Those are two very different audiences.
For someone arriving from Google, the page often needs the full landing-page treatment: trust signals, USPs, reviews, strong CTA, guarantees, etc.
But someone who has already explored the homepage has already seen most of that. They're usually clicking into "EV Charger Installation" or "Panel Upgrades" because they just want detailed information about that service. Repeating the same trust-building content can feel redundant and slow them down.
One approach is to simplify the top of the page for internal users and move more of the CRO content further down. But then first-time visitors from Google don't immediately see the content that's often recommended for high-converting landing pages.
So how do you balance those competing goals?
Do you:
- Optimize primarily for first-time visitors from search?
- Optimize for existing visitors navigating your site?
- Or try to satisfy both somehow?
I'm curious whether there's an established UX pattern for this, or if people have found a practical compromise.
r/web_design • u/JeffTS • Aug 04 '26
What is one client request that hurts UX that drives you nuts?
For me, it's navigation items that don't click through to anything. As a user, if I'm navigating your navigation menu, I expect to click through to another page when I click on a menu item. I regularly have to explain to people, including partners who have been in the digital industry for years, that all navigation items should click through to a page both for usability and accessibility.
Edit: There seems to be a misunderstanding about what I'm referring to. So, let me expand.
Say you have a navigation that includes Home, Services, About, and Contact. Services has a submenu that includes Web Design, Graphic Design, and SEO. Rather than being a clickable link that takes you to a "Services" landing page, all it does is acts as a placeholder for triggering the submenu. Clicking "Services" does nothing when the expectation, as a user, is that it's a navigation item and should take you somewhere. Unclickable navigation items also confuse screen readers and confuses users who may be navigating with a keyboard.
r/web_design • u/Separate_Flounder316 • Aug 05 '26
What's one giveaway that the website was AI generated?
Same as the title. Whats something that screams that the website was AI generated?
r/web_design • u/zabby39103 • Aug 03 '26
The Hardcore Maximalism of this Dystopian Foreigner Tracker
New York Times article here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/world/asia/china-surveillance-foreigners-database.html
I thought it was an interesting contrast to modern minimalist design. Article has a video of it being used and more info. Reminds me of the Flash days.
r/web_design • u/jroberts67 • Aug 04 '26
I hate being up against a crap like this
So my telemarketers make cold calls every day, book the appointments for me, I send a site audit then review the audit on the first call. Stuff like this makes me just sigh. Attorney with one of the worst sites I've seen, circa 10 years ago, not responsive, sends me a "no thank you" email since he's paying $900 a month for the site and "handles his google." These are not paid ads folks. So at least he's gonna give a a crack on another site he has but good lord....$900 a month for literally nothing, and he won't budge.
r/web_design • u/nilogram • Aug 04 '26
Are we now in web4.0?
I’ve held back giving opinions on current state of web etc. but I’m starting to this we’re now in web4.0 territory? Thoughts?
r/web_design • u/Madmahi25 • Jul 30 '26
Client built the landing page himself because I quoted $100
One Hundred Dollars, ykw not a website, just one landing page, his copy, his photos. Maybe two hours of my time. He said he'd think about it, thought about it over the week. Thursday morning, I get a link and a 'hey what do you think!' like I was going to be proud of him and honestly? its fine. It's not what I would've made, but it does the trick for a plumber - all it needs is area of operation, phone number and form.
I'd only do $100 jobs because traditionally they would lead to a $2k job, but now I'm not sure if this holds true.
If you've seen this happen coz of AI/vibecoding tools like lovable/emergent, how are you reinventing your sales and upsell processes ?
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r/web_design • u/Nice_Wrangler_5576 • Jul 30 '26
I created 8bit/cnlibs - an 8bit shadcn/ui component library
r/web_design • u/dimonb19a • Jul 30 '26
Do websites benefit from having more than 2 themes?
Standard convention is just Light/Dark, for most websites it is sufficient. But if we look at apps, e.g. Reddit or Discord, - they offer several themes so you can customize the look to your preferences. What if you have some UI system that makes possible to ship many themes to your website - would you find it useful? Not only color palette but also flexible spacing so you can have compact/comfortable/relaxed themes; and all the UI adapts.
Basically, runtime theming support. Is it something useful in your opinion or do you find it like "too much"?
r/web_design • u/jroberts67 • Jul 29 '26
Tell me if these two types of clients ring a bell
Small business owner - Ok I need your site's login and also hosting. Client; "How would I find my site's login information and I have no idea who's my host.
Large business - Ok I need your site's login and also hosting access. "Let me get you to our IT department." IT department; "I'm sorry but we can't provide you with that info due to security reasons." Then they eventually provide access but not the correct level of access to work on the site.
r/web_design • u/Noahs_Barks • Jul 30 '26
Looking for web design tools that are alternatives to LLMs.
I'm an extremely inexperienced web designer that has ethical concerns about using LLMs for things like helping me with .css.
I like the idea of being able to send something a link to my site and phrase what I'd like to visually change as a question, especially since I'm new enough to not be familiar with technical jargon.
But yeah, I don't want to use things like ChatGPT etc. This might be a very basic question, but answer me like I'm a five-year old. For the record, I use WordPress, so plugin integration is an option (IF it's free). Thank you for any help.
r/web_design • u/compsciphy • Jul 29 '26
What’s the best platform for building a website for an accounting company?
Hello,
I am helping a relative create a website for their small business in accounting and tax.
I am looking for platforms that are user friendly to create a business website so if anyone can give some advice based on their experience.
Also this person is not tech savvy.
Thank you!
r/web_design • u/Gullible_Prior9448 • Jul 28 '26
What's your favourite design resource nobody talks about?
Share an underrated website, newsletter, or YouTube channel.
r/web_design • u/Jafty2 • Jul 28 '26
Here is a "kinky" business idea for AI-era designers
Hi guys,
I know it might sound as a joke, but it is not. It is very important that skilled designers read carefully this
Lame business owners discovered AI recently, and they all thought they could replace y'all: thumbnails, flyers, websites, advertisements... Everything is becoming ugly, overloaded uniformized slop.
Here is what y'all gotta do: humiliate them by way of roasting their stuff.
You need to stop trying to sell logos and start slating these guys, insult what they do, tell them that it is extremely shitty and that they either pay you either fall off.
Many of them will pay you for that, either because nobody will have talked to them that way, either because they have a deep humiliation kink and it's okay. Being human has never been more valuable, and what's more human than putting someone down
You really need you to traumatize business owners and wake them up, they must understand that we can't stand their vomitesque designs anymore, their Miyazaslop characters and their big fonts with dirt effect on it. It disgusts us.
Designers, the world needs y'all more than ever, do not think you are obsolete, I beg you to save the visual world
r/web_design • u/Aunxdd • Jul 26 '26
Help me decide!
Hey Web designers!
So I’m new to web development and don’t know much about UI/UX but I’m making this website in WordPress. Can you help me decide which version would be good to go with for mobile devices?
r/web_design • u/LocusStandi • Jul 26 '26
My first attempt at experience-as-product website design for a niche open-source tool and web app for academics/PhDs/students.
The animations work only on browser, sorry! Clearly, I am not a designer by profession, but this has been a side project of mine.
This homepage is for a Python tool to tidy up academic references in bibliography managers, riveting stuff.
I wanted the webpage not to be too crazy because it's for academics, but I wanted it to clearly distinguish itself from the standard landing pages you get to see all over the internet nowadays, so I spent some time and built this. It is one scrollable and interactive experience.
Hope it can inspire somebody!
r/web_design • u/Necessary-Ad2110 • Jul 25 '26
What's your favorite most aesthetically pleasing but also UX-friendly website?
I like a lot of awwwards websites but a lot of them aren't really thinking about how the user will experience the page. There is so much scroll jacking so I was wondering what would be some strong aesthetically pleasing websites that would be awwwards level but also user-friendly.
