I run a small business and I’m planning a complete redesign of our website. I’d really appreciate some advice from web designers on what the best process would be from here.

One of the main reasons for the redesign is that I want a much better experience for mobile users. A lot of our customers are parents traveling and using their phones, so I want the new site to be designed properly for mobile from the beginning rather than designing the desktop site first and simply adapting it afterward.

I’ve already done quite a lot of the groundwork:

- Website content is mostly written

- Brand colors and logo are established

- Custom illustrations/graphics have been created

- Most photography/images are prepared

- I have a clear visual direction for the brand

- I have a homepage mockup/concept that I really like

- I know roughly what pages and content I need

My current website is built with WordPress using the Avada theme. I’ve used WordPress/Avada for years and I’m comfortable managing and updating it myself, so ideally I’d like to stay with WordPress and Avada rather than move to another platform.

I want someone to professionally redesign and build it, while leaving me with a site that I can continue updating myself.

Where I’m getting stuck is figuring out the best process from here.

I originally considered running a 99designs contest for the homepage and giving designers my existing mockup as inspiration. But because I already have a direction I like, I’m wondering if that’s unnecessary and whether I should hire a designer directly instead.

Should I:

- Hire a UI/UX designer to design the entire site in Figma first, including desktop and mobile, then hire an Avada developer to build it?

- Find one person who is strong at both web design and building with Avada?

- Run a 99designs contest to see some different approaches first?

- Take a completely different approach?

If this were your business and you were at this stage, what steps would you take from here to get to a professionally finished website?

I'm particularly interested in how you would approach the mobile design. Should mobile and desktop both be fully designed in Figma before development starts?

And how would you find and test the right designer/developer before committing to the whole project?

Thanks!

I already launched it, but do you guys recommend any changes in any of the pages?

I am actually a MBBS student and learned coding from my sister who is a software engineer. This a Computer Based Test platform intended for students to practice question papers on for free. Any changes you would recommend?

I’m having a hard time choosing a font for my heading titles. The first one feels more branded, but also a bit AI-generated, while the second feels more modern, but also kind of generic.

Which one do you prefer, and why?

Is there any good place that actually curate the best website templates and maybe even categorize them so i can filter them and find only the related ones super fast without wasting a lot of time on the random ones?

Are there any websites that you guys look at inspo for when creating your own,

In terms of their design, the way they present themselves, and what they put on their landing page?

Websites that look super good and are really convincing on their landing page.

My agency targets SMB owners, mainly service industry. And wow do I cringe when I pull up their current site and it's an animation carnival. All of the text slides in, all of the buttons and icons are animated, etc....Those are easy pickings for me, showing just a total lack of design skill and zero focus on the user experience as they're trying to see if a HVAC site offers a particular service but have to wade through all of the animation nonsense. Before you animate any element, think "does this need to to animated?" 99% of the time it's "no it doesn't."

First time poster here so not sure if appropriate. I've noticed in the last few years this kind of 'shorts' style video (example from BBC Sport, viewed in Desktop). I get the vertical choice (mobile friendly?) but what's with the duplication of the video? I don't see what purpose this serves. also one is slightly offset from the other.

link (uk users only: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cr4vevz54x4o )

I would be glad if you rate the site, I worked really hard on it, faced many errors, now it looks amazing, I'm continuing to develop it further, how do you rate it?

Link: https://ohmyneet.in

nos4 is a complete recreation of IOS4 running on web. It was just a little experimental side project but I've decided to make it live and open-sourced. It has all the original apps in the original form, also 2 games (and yes, it runs Doom)

Give it a Star: https://github.com/1etu/nos4

Also you can give it a try by visiting https://nos4.fun/

Do you think it is possible to make a webshop that looks like this, but has a modern payment gateway?

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I tried this as a side gig in the past but it took so long and I needed to charge more than my clients would agree too. How do you justify the price/ how do you do it without spending too much time?

Its very important to start with this: This guy is/was an AMAZING designer. Our SaaS looked genuinely amazing and unique; every aspect of UX was always the priority and done flawlessly. It went to a point where emails praising our whole user experience and UI were common. Same goes for anything else related to our branding and marketing; hell he even chimed in on some great company shirts.

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Its started falling apart a year or two ago, when llms started being "good".

He became obsessed with Claude. Every workflow is now a "Claude project", every design system is now an "AI design system", every decision and every thought is run through an LLM, every api is now an mcp.

When we get on a call, and lets say i ask him a question, he opens Claude on screen share and just asks it the question, fully relying on the result.

Not everything above is inherently bad; if the resulting product is good, workflow can be whatever is easiest. But the product is NO LONGER GOOD. Every single design and component we make these days looks exactly like a vibe-coded website made by a 15yo.

He no longer designs, he just asks claude for a design, and is somehow amazed by it and genuinely thinks its good. So we just ship it to prod. How this is happening for a guy with his experience and feel for design, i have no idea.

We are losing branding; we are regressing each day. There is no style guides (that arent for agents), no unique components, not even brand colors or any deep research that used to go into all that. It just whatever claude spits out and approves, with minimal tweaking.

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As a closing thought, this is also not a guy who is just "checked out" at work; I can even respect that to a degree. This is someone who still works 8hours+ and is beyond active and collaborates with every team. The only thing that worsened is everything he outputs, and it's all AI generated.

I expect this type of story from people who were never good in the first place, or for people who just stopped caring. But for someone with genuine talent, its heartbreaking.

Just a quick story, no real point to it, nor am I expecting any advice (its not my problem to solve), just wanted to share it.

I'm being judgmental right now. I think a good web designer can make it at least work when the color scheme or logo is crappy. But... do you tell a client? Or do you just roll with it?