🛠️ Crucible Innovations | Exceptional product development

Sebastian Bistran

Verified

🔍 Project Summary

Client: Crucible Innovations — a product innovation partner specializing in medical device development, regulatory compliance, prototyping, and commercialization support. Role: Lead Web Designer (Framer) Tools: Framer, Figma, FigJam, Notion Timeline: June 12, 2024 – August 27, 2024
Crucible works across healthcare, recycling, and biotech helping ideas become impactful, compliant, and market-ready products My task was to redesign their website to reflect their thoughtful, multidisciplinary, trusted approach.

🎯 Design Goals

Translate Crucible's expertise in medical device development, regulation, prototyping, and commercialization into a bold, modern digital experience.
Support future growth by enabling site scalability via Framer CMS
Simplify complex service offerings into a clean, approachable interface
Use motion and interactivity to reinforce credibility

🧩 Visual Approach & Storytelling

The design system was built to support storytelling across the entire Crucible site—not just a polished homepage. Each page was structured to guide visitors through Crucible’s mission, capabilities, work, and network in a way that feels modern, credible, and intuitive.

🔺 Homepage

Goal: Immediately position Crucible as a trusted innovation partner.
Hero Block: Bold tagline, dual-column layout with product imagery
Intro Statement: What Crucible does in plain terms
Services Snapshot: Linked blocks with animations
Case Study Preview: Horizontal scrollable “quick hits”
CTA Block: Leads into full Contact or Network page

🛠 Services Page

Goal: Break down Crucible’s capabilities into digestible service categories.
Split section layout for each service (e.g., Prototyping, Regulatory, IP Strategy)
Designed for scannability with short descriptions and icons
Hover/scroll reveals for deeper insights per section

📁 Projects Page

Goal: Showcase tangible outcomes and social proof from real work.
Case study tiles with visual branding for each product (QuickBlock, Stepsense, Bio:Cule, etc.)
Client testimonial overlays
Click-through to deeper case breakdowns
CMS-driven structure for scalability

🌐 Network Page

Goal: Highlight Crucible’s collaborative ecosystem.
Grid of affiliated partners, advisors, and contributors
Designed with minimalism in mind—focus on logos and short bios
Optional video or slider module to show lab footage or collaboration highlights

📩 Contact Page

Goal: Make outreach simple and inviting.
Clean form with inline validation
Personal contact CTA with LinkedIn/Calendly links
Clear reassurance messaging (e.g., “We typically reply within 48 hours”)

🧩 CMS Strategy

All major content blocks—projects, services, network bios—were built using Framer CMS collections, allowing Crucible to grow the site without touching code. Each block is reusable, so internal teams can duplicate and reframe layouts for future content.

🏁 Conclusion

The Crucible Innovations site redesign was more than a facelift, it was a chance to realign the brand’s online presence with the level of expertise they bring to their work. By leveraging Framer’s flexibility, we created a modular, scalable design system that tells Crucible’s story clearly and confidently.
From homepage to project highlights, every section was built to support growth, invite collaboration, and showcase what makes Crucible different. The result is a site that looks sharp, loads fast, and communicates trust from the first scroll.
This project combined clean systems thinking with bold visual storytelling.

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What the client had to say

Sebastians attention to detail is second to none, the way he transformed our ideas into a fully-fledged website in such a short time amazes me. Won't hesitate to use him in the future and look forward to working with him again soon.

Melville Berwick

Aug 27, 2024, Client

Posted Aug 22, 2025

Built a slick new web presence for Crucible — fast, flexible, and ready to grow. Full CMS control. Fully Framer.

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Timeline

Jun 12, 2024 - Aug 27, 2024

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