Day 5 of my contra journey until I earn 10x hired.
I have came quite ahead in my journey, within 5 days I have led my profile to be indexed in Discover. As an amateur to contra I thought that every new profile is visible to be searched but I was wrong, you don't get discovered...
Most of my work tends to be warmer, more elegant and feminine. So when this client asked for something very rigid, minimal and clean, I knew I was going to have to approach the project differently.
They are architects, and they wanted their structural, precise and highly organised way of thinking to come through in the website.
I have to admit, I was a little scared at the beginning.
It’s always interesting when a project doesn’t immediately feel like “you”. There’s a temptation to bring your own aesthetic into everything you create — but sometimes the real challenge is knowing when not to.
Looking at the final website now, I actually love how consistent it feels with their identity.
And perhaps that’s the real goal of design: not to make everything look like your work, but to create something that feels unmistakably like your client.
Have you ever worked on a project that was completely outside your usual aesthetic? Did you embrace it, or did you find yourself trying to bring it back into your own visual language?
Top 1% of creatives on Contra with a 195 score 🎉 What I'm most excited about is who's showing up because of it: new clients, designers, new conversations, projects I wouldn't have found on my own. Grateful, and ready for more.
Since I started remixing templates, I've been offering to build websites for friends and family. 👀 It's a great way to work on real projects for real people, not just practice files.
This one is for a friend who's a family counselor. I used the Holistic template and had the site live in almost a day. There's still much to do to tailor this template to her but I'm happy with the result so far. 🤍