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Every client I've worked with has asked for the same thing in the first message: "I need a website."
What they actually need is usually something more specific, and they don't know how to articulate it yet.
Here's what I've seen across 5 shipped projects:
They ask for: "A beautiful website with lots of animations." They need: A clear value prop above the fold and one CTA that's impossible to miss.
They ask for: "Something like [competitor's site]." They need: The opposite. A way to stand out from that competitor, not blend in with them.
They ask for: "Can we add more sections?" They need: Fewer sections with better content. Three strong blocks beat seven mediocre ones every time.
They ask for: "Make it pop." They need: Contrast. Bigger type on the headline, more whitespace around the CTA, one accent color instead of four.
They ask for: "I want it to feel premium." They need: Restraint. Less text, more breathing room, slower pacing, and a font that isn't trying too hard.
None of this means clients are wrong. They're describing a feeling they want visitors to have. My job is to translate that feeling into decisions: what stays, what goes, what gets bigger, what disappears entirely.
The best client conversations happen when I stop taking requests literally and start asking "what's the outcome you want from this page?" Then we work backward.
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