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Buying a house is a desktop activity — the overwhelming majority browsed listings on a laptop or desktop PC, so I deliberately abandoned the mobile-first default for this product

Mobile's role was communication, not browsing — calls and emails, which happened outside the web environment entirely

For this audience, restraint reads as trust — conservative typography, calm colours, and generous space signal luxury better than decoration

The rebrand stayed deliberately conservative: clean typography, a restrained palette, and generous whitespace — chosen to signal professionalism, clarity, and trust, the qualities a buyer wants when the purchase runs into millions. The logo itself is a reminder that design doesn't keep office hours: the idea arrived mid-conversation on a drive to the train station, nowhere near a screen. Some ideas just need distance and patience. The finished system extended into magazine advertising, branded stationery, and contract document templates, so every client touchpoint felt like one company.

The website was designed desktop-first — a deliberate, research-backed inversion of the usual mobile-first default. And the role stretched wherever the brand needed it: editing and occasionally shooting property photography, contracting a drone operator for exteriors, proposing an internal app for sketching floorplans on site, and collaborating with the external development team through the build — down to 404 pages, error states, and element edge cases.

Complete rebrand and visual identity, applied across web, magazine print, stationery, and contract documents

Full website design

desktop-first by research — supported through external development, including error and edge states

End-to-end property presentation

photo editing, occasional shoots, and contracted drone photography

This was my first project of this scale, and I'd do parts of it differently today — above all, I'd push harder on accessibility: stronger contrast and clearer elements over visual effect, because some pieces don't work as well as they should. What holds up is the research. Understanding who the buyers actually were — and having the data to confidently abandon mobile-first when it contradicted convention — shaped every decision that mattered.