One of the easiest ways to improve your brand is to stop making customers repeat themselves.
You know that frustrating experience.
You explain your issue to one person.
They transfer you.
You explain everything again.
Then the next person asks for information you already provided.
At some point, the problem is no longer just the customer service. It is the system behind it.
And customers notice.
A business can have friendly people, a beautiful identity and a well-designed website, but if customers constantly have to chase updates, repeat information or figure out what happens next, the experience still feels disorganised.
Good customer experience needs good systems.
Tell customers what happens after they pay or book.
Give them a realistic timeline so they are not left wondering when you will respond.
Keep customer information organised so your team can see what has already been discussed.
Make payment simple.
Answer common questions before customers have to ask them.
And communicate updates before the customer has to come looking for them.
These things may not sound like branding.
They are not as exciting as a logo reveal or a new visual identity.
But they shape what people say about your business after dealing with you.
Sometimes the strongest brand statement is simply:
“They’re very easy to work with.”
That comes from reducing friction.
So when a business asks, “How can we improve our brand?”
The answer may not be a new logo, new colours or a complete rebrand.
It might be as simple as fixing the unnecessary friction in the customer experience.
Because people remember how easy, confusing, stressful or seamless it was to do business with you.
A logo is one thing. Giving it a whole personality is another. 👀
I picked a few of my branding projects to show what happens beyond the logo.
First, the logo on its own. Then, the full visual identity: colours, typography, graphic elements, patterns, packaging, and all the little details that make each brand feel like itself.
Because I don't want a logo to just look good sitting on a presentation slide. I want to see what it can become when it gets out into the real world.
Every project has a different story, personality, and visual direction. And that's probably my favourite part of brand design: figuring out how to turn one initial idea into a whole visual language.
Swipe through and meet the logos, then their bigger personalities. ;)
A logo is the starting point. The fun really begins after that.
DockTail approached me with a fun idea: make us look nothing like what we do.
As strange as it sounds, I think this is one of the most exciting creative challenges. When branding a business, the primary objective is usually to communicate what it does. But what happens when you deliberately take that away?
After a few days of brainstorming, experimentation, and using Curative Intelligence, I arrived at these two concepts.
One is ALL CAPS, the other is all lowercase. Both carry the same personality, but express it through two entirely different approaches.