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Devon Sack

• Oct 4

How a digital planner actually gets built

A client asked what really goes into a digital planner, so here's the honest pipeline I run:

1) A one-page spec — the problem it solves, in one sentence, and who it's for. 2) The content map — every section, tab, and link target, before a single page gets designed. 3) The build. 4) The boring part that matters most: hyperlink testing. Every tab, every link, machine-checked — then I tap through the whole thing myself in GoodNotes. A planner with one broken link is a planner you stop trusting.

Want this level of custom built for your own brand or event — full packages with matching details? That's my flagship service: contra.com/devon_sack_ozaa31xl. And the ready-made 2026–2027 planner line, built exactly this way, lives in my Etsy shop (DesignClarityShop).

Oliver Gareis

• 3h

I designed these typographic layouts as part of my ongoing visual series on scale, grid and rhythm ↳ Master typography & layout - The foundation of timeless web design. Join 350+ designers inside my 13-hour online course https://typomonday.com/course

Editorial Design Typography Visual Design Figma

Madob Acharjya

• 3h

Love this!

Toqir Chatha

pro

• 8h

I've spent years obsessing over the stuff nobody notices on a website. Until it's missing.

AI can now build a whole site in an afternoon. I think that's great.

But it still can't decide what feels right.

I don't think AI is the problem. It just stops at "it works". The last part, the spacing, the type, the way things move when you scroll, still needs someone who cares about it.

That's the part I've always loved doing. So I made a small thing around it: you bring the site AI built, I finish it in Webflow.

It's called Verdikt https://verdikt.studio

GSAP Webflow Development Web Design

Vansita Addanki

pro

• 4h

The little details make such a difference.

Daisuke Narita

• 8h

Problem: Small teams lose hours every week to copy-paste work — moving data between tools, chasing updates, and doing the same manual steps again and again. Build: With my service One AI Automation Built for You — $150, one fixed price — I build one automation for you in n8n, Make or Zapier, wired into the tools you already use, tested end to end, and handed over with a short walkthrough so your team can run it. Result: One repetitive task runs itself, every time, without the manual work. No calls needed. We work async, in text. What is the one task you would automate first if it ran itself?