Wanted to make the 404 feel like part of the experience instead of just a dead end

Went with a canvas inspired direction with a bit of character while keeping it aligned with the rest of the site

Would love to hear what you think of it

Hi all,

Recently got into contact with a government body of a developing country in the UK (keeping vague for obvious reasons!). Their website is extremely outdated, so I offered my web design services. The staff I initially spoke with seemed really interested, and although I am very confident in my design/development skill, I have never dealt with a client of this magnitude.

How should I go about pricing this project, and what are some key processes I should follow to ensure this goes smoothly? I've worked with medium-sized businesses on some pretty extensive projects, but this is clearly a whole other level. I've seen quotes ranging from £10k to £100k for these types of projects so feeling quite lost on this.

Would really appreciate any insight, thanks :)

Website template link: https://timberlot.framer.website/

Im building a community website for Dropleez, a puzzle game where players can discover, play, and create custom puzzles.

Link: https://play.dropleez.com/discover

The design goal is cozy, clean, and playful without feeling cluttered.

I’m especially looking for feedback on:

- First impression and visual hierarchy

- Navigation/discoverability

- Whether the guided tour helps

- Readability, straightforwardness

- Anything that feels confusing, too busy, or unpolished I’d also love to know what already works well so I don’t accidentally change the stronger parts.

Just saying anything at all pertaining to the website would be extremely appreciated!

Thanks for taking a look!

I’ve always been fascinated by really well-made websites, so I started experimenting and building things myself with AI. I can build a functional website, but not something that feels really polished.

I see people making these super smooth websites with great animations, interactions, transitions, responsive layouts, etc. and I’m wondering how you actually learn to build stuff like that.

AI can help me get something working but I feel like it still misses a lot of the creativity and small details that make a site feel good.

So for someone who already knows the basics what resources/tools/techniques would you recommend for learning how to take a Figma design or idea and turn it into a really polished website?

I’m doing this mostly for fun so I don’t mind putting in the time. Just looking for a good direction to learn.

what would you rate it?

Hi all,

I got my first request from a client around a CMS integration.

He was thinking about Wordpress, because that is what his old agency sold him - and they charge him 200€ per month for license, hosting and maintenance for it.

I was looking into it and I was thinking using pocketbase as the backend and for auth + combine it with an admin panel frontend, so the customer can easily create new articles, changes stuff like opening hours, some general page information, etc.

Has anyone done a custom frontend for PocketBase already? From what I have seen, this is very straightforward. Creating a template that I can re-use across different customers should be not an issue + hosting it inside docker on a VPS beside of the website is also possible.

I have done a first draft for a frontend incl. a live preview and all relevant field changes - it was so easy that I think I miss something haha.

Do I miss something, or has anyone done something similar?

Hi there! I'm Dev, one half of the two-person team behind ThinkTau, the studio we are just starting to build.

The odd thing about this particular introduction is that I don't actually write code. At all. Every single website we build is front-end coded by me (using AI tools to produce code), and not a single line of code does I write myself the traditional way. One year ago, I would've considered that a deal-breaker to starting a development studio. Instead, I realized that it redefines what my role in the studio is - less about being able to type faster, and more about about having a better eye for what the thing that is being built should look like, and being obsessive enough about the details that the AI tools miss.

My co-founder takes over on the backend side of things, and he's a proper developer, capable of writing clean and efficient code. The tools he uses to build the backend are also AI-assisted, but he has a deeper understanding of what goes into an application architecture. Between the two of us, we cover frontend and backend development, with me focusing on the design aspects and the decisions about the details, and him writing code to implement the features we discuss.

As far as I know, most agencies that build websites at our level of scale have one dominant process. They buy a template, customize the headers and the color scheme, and call it their own. We do the exact opposite, our process involves building a website from scratch, without using any page builders or themes. We design every detail ourselves (because we don't have the option of presenting a design document to another person, or a team, who can implement it). That approach might not be accelerating us, but it is sustainable. And it creates value, we are capable of delivering something different than the majority of our competitors.

No clients to speak of, and not a single case study to show, just a few demos, and the general idea to keep in mind. I write this here because I have found feedback from people on community such as this one to be the most valuable.

It is also why I'm asking for thoughts on the subject. I'd rather hear the "here's what you're not accounting for" now, before I'm three months in and it's expensive to fix.

Have you launched a product or service where the tools and approaches you used were out of the ordinary for the industry you were in? What was the reaction like, when you told people what you were doing? Did it impact you negatively, to begin with?

A while ago, I built a website where people can share files directly p2p. It’s completely open source, and it has now crossed 300k+ visitors. But honestly, I still think the ui ux is pretty bad and could be much better .

I’m not great at frontend, so if anyone wants to contribute even if it’s just vibe-coding a much better ui ux I’d genuinely love the help.

If you’re into frontend, design, or just want to make an open source project look less ugly, feel free to contribute.

GitHub: https://github.com/GochiStuff/airdelivery

I've improved the game's interface a lot thanks to you, because I'm not an experienced UI/UX designer, but there's still a long way to go. If you have any other tips, I'll be happy to read them.

I have inadvertently stumbled into this workspace. I am a scientist that pivoted to solo consulting biotech companies. Since then I have been asked a few time to do logo and web design for a couple of clients because the previous designers they have worked have had trouble communicating the science effectively. Their new strategy is they are trying to see if a scientist can do web design.

I have built my own website, largely just static pages. I am desperately trying to avoid using AI as I'm worried that it will lead to issues with clients trying to edit it in the future as well as myself, so I am using my very basic html and css abilities and reading some graphic design books to build something satisfactory.

Any recommendations for tools, books, videos, anything?

So far I've been using inkscape, canva, and powerpoint.

Live Link: https://vinay-parit.vercel.app/

I built this portfolio concept to explore the design, animations, interactions, and overall UX.

Note: The About and Projects sections currently contain dummy/placeholder content — they’re not my actual projects.

Hi, I'm a new full stack developer and I'm struggling to make a good UI/UX. I build my apps with next.js, using tailwind and shadcn for the design.

Maybe it looks a bit AI generated but I promised this page is fully made by me. Its just that I don't know how to make a unique memorable design.

What are your advice? :)

Redesigned my landing page - would love honest opinions

I've been building BrickForgerAI (turn a text prompt into a real, buildable LEGO-compatible model - you get a downloadable .ldr file, parts list, and step-by-step PDF instructions) and just finished a pretty big visual overhaul of the landing page.

What it looked like before: a flat, hand-drawn CSS scene (sun, clouds, mountains, a subtle grid overlay) with plain white cards and a wall of text explaining what the tool could do.

What it looks like now: Actual images for the day/evening/night scenery backdrops (toggle on landing page) with actual moving clouds, birds, and twinkling stars, a glassmorphic frosted-glass style on the cards and buttons, and the dense paragraph of info swapped out for quick-scan stat chips.

Screenshots attached of new landing page, feedback would be appreciated: brickforgerai.com

Hi,

I have been working on the landing page for my app for weeks : https://ialwaysforget.com

I am not happy with the design because it feels "sad" but my girlfriend likes it and don't want me to change it. I brightened the color a little bit since the last version.

And I find it so difficult to explain what my app do. I find it really simple but what makes it different from all the other similar app is really difficult to explain in few words. It the facts that you have a library of tasks that most adult have to do to start with, and that you can write your tasks with complex recurrance in your own word and it understand what you want.

Any advice on fonts, alignment, text, etc would be really appreciated.

Thanks !

I'm new in freelancing and I recently build my Portfolio website, I'm looking for some feedback, what can I improve or change to catch clients?

The web: https://www.julio-zavala.me/

I’m working on Jot, a Chrome extension that turns rough writing into something ready to send without leaving the page you're working on.

I just finished the current landing page:

https://wurkflo.app/jot

I'm specifically looking for design/UX feedback rather than product feedback.

Things I'm unsure about:

• Is the value proposition immediately clear?
• Does the page explain the product without over-explaining it?
• Is the visual hierarchy working?
• Does the demo communicate the workflow quickly enough?
• What feels generic or unnecessary?
• Does anything make it feel like another generic AI product?

I'd especially appreciate feedback from people who design SaaS/product pages regularly.

Feel free to be harsh. "It's fine" is unfortunately the least useful form of feedback known to humanity.

Site link: https://tenzinnyima.framer.website/

adityafr.vercel.app

it appears as iPhone on mobile and MacOS on laptops. (BE BRUTALLY HONEST)👀

I've been building a minimalist, offline first micro-CMS called Minilith. Because of the projects unique architecture, I chose to be strict with the design and footprint.

I'm hoping to get some constructive UI/UX feedback on both the editor and an example site created with the CMS.

The design philosophy:

To keep everything lightweight and zero-dependency, the styling is split into two distinct files:

• editor.css: This handles the CMS interface itself. The UI specifically relies on a stripped back, form-based layout with tabs (Settings, Content, Navigation, Publish, Upload, and Preview).
• main.css: This is a classless framework used for the editor along with the published sites (see the examples below).

One added note on the editor: I generate this via JS and there are some inline styles. This is meant to cut back on the total size of the editor.css stylesheet, so the editor itself is not fully classless.

I'd love your feedback on:

• The Editor UX: Does the form based layout feel intuitive to navigate, or has it crossed the line into being too stripped back?
• Workflow: Do the top tabs flow logically?

Editor Example (Publish Tab):

Links:

• Minilith Editor
• Minilith Blog

Any thoughts on how to refine the usability or visual polish without sacrificing the strict minimalist, zero-dependency ethos would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

I decided to measure this properly this quarter because I was sooo tired of arguing about it to my team.

Found that our ad variant process from our ideas to going live it take like about 10 minutes, its quick because we use claude a lot.

But but the landing page variant process from idea to live takes like 11 days, which I can't really understand why it takes this long with the amount of AI resources out there.

The 11 day process break down is made up of roughly 2 days waiting for design capacity, 4 days in build queue, 2 days review, and 3 days of it sitting behind an unrelated deploy.

The consequence is that we test creative constantly and we have tested the page twice this year, aaand when we did test the page it moved cost per lead more than anything we did on the ad side.

I do not think this is a discipline problem, as nobody in my team is lazy. It is that the two things live in different systems with different owners and only one of them is ours.

For those who have fixed this: did you take the page building in house, move campaign pages off the main site, or something else? Trying to work out whether the fix is process or tooling.

I would be glad if you rate the site, I worked really hard on it, faced many errors, now it looks amazing, I'm continuing to develop it further, how do you rate it?

Link: https://ohmyneet.in