Imagine walking into a hotel.
Reception smiles.
Before you’ve even got your room key they ask if you’d like to book the spa.
Five steps later somebody wants to sell you dinner.
Another member of staff starts talking about conference facilities.
Next comes a leaflet about weddings.
Then there’s an advert for afternoon tea.
Eventually you stop for a second and think…
“I’m just trying to find my room.”
That’s how a surprising number of wellness homepages feel.
Somebody arrives looking for help with trauma.
Halfway down the page they’re reading about practitioner training.
Further on there’s research.
Next comes membership.
Now donations appear.
Before long the visitor has become about six different people.
Nobody stays one person long enough to feel understood.
That’s the bit I think gets missed.
Every homepage is having lots of conversations.
Very few finish the first one.
If I’m searching because life feels unbearable right now, don’t turn me into a student after thirty seconds.
Leave me where I am.
Help me there first.
Everything else can wait.
That’s usually the sort of thing I point out in my audits.
Most founders never notice it’s happening because they already know where every path leads.
A stranger doesn’t.
You can spot a vibe-coded app in 2 seconds.
Same gradient. Same cards. Same “Get started.”
It’s not a coincidence.
When you ask AI to “make it look modern,” it gives you the average of every landing page it has seen. The average is safe. It’s also invisible.
And it costs you more than looks:
→ Visitors can’t tell you apart from the 10 other tools they opened today.
→ “Supercharge your workflow” says nothing about the problem you solve.
→ A generic page feels like a weekend project. People don’t trust weekend projects with their data or their card.
The good news: you don’t need to rebuild anything. Three changes go a long way:
Write the headline yourself. Name your user and their problem in plain words.
Pick one thing only your product does and make it the first thing people see.
Replace the three feature cards with a real screen of your product.
AI can build the page in minutes. Deciding what it should say is still your job.
What’s the first thing you’d change on your own landing page?
Another project from our two-person studio, this time a website concept for a personal growth mentor.
A different feel from the fitness project: editorial typography, a quieter layout, and bright accents. The focus here was on making the mentoring services easy to explore, with clear information about the available formats and what to expect from a first session.
My husband and I are gradually bringing our shared work together, so I’ll be sharing more of these projects alongside my research and audit cases.
A modern, editorial-style website concept for a personal growth mentor, designed to communicate trust, clarity, and confidence while helping visitors understand mentoring services and take the next step toward personal development.