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Most of the websites I've designed were built by someone else.
Now I build the ones I design, and I see how many decisions happen after the design file is done.
I wrote about what changes when one person designs and builds the site, and when that stops working: a product with a backend and user accounts needs a team. At the end there are four questions to help you choose a setup for your own project.
I'm usually the one building other people's designs, and yes, half the decisions happen after the Figma is "done" 😄
Relay Agents: a Framer template for AI agent, developer tool and API products. Follow one request: the section pins and a glowing packet carries a support ticket through Read, Plan, Act and Check, each step writing its lines to a run console until a Done card rises.
Inside: a home page with a typed terminal hero and pricing with a monthly and yearly toggle, a Changelog from the CMS, Contact with a form, a Style guide, and layouts checked down to 320px wide.
Live preview: https://altruistic-haggis-744388.framer.app
Get it on Contra: https://contra.com/products/CTMS1DeP-relay-agents-framer-template-for-ai-and-developer-products
Some designers are waiting for flashy visuals to shine in their portfolio, but keep forgetting that the process is far more important.
Recently, I had a good opportunity
To focus on what matters for a client
The process.
The thing they can't find even with AI.
What AI can’t give a founder ↓
↳ Context: it hasn’t heard their last three customer calls
↳ A decision trail: why this positioning, and who signed off
↳ Consistency: the deck, the site and the outbound each get a different prompt, so each tells a different story
↳ One final version: nobody is sure which file is the real one
Most AI-built brands don’t fail on speed or creativity.
They fail on the structure around the output.
So I built that structure before the project starts.
Every client gets a private portal on day one ↓
→ A Loom walkthrough from me
→ About 20 onboarding questions on their business and customers
→ A brief drafted from their answers: AI drafts, they approve, then it locks
→ One page per phase, with its own comments
→ 3 revision rounds on the logo and the landing page
→ Start and end dates they can see
The point?
Visuals get you noticed.
Process gets you hired.
What does your portfolio show: the final visuals, or how you got there?
