Build log
This site was built live, not templated.
Most agency sites show you fake case studies. We don’t have real client results yet, so here’s the honest alternative: proof of the actual build process, in order, as it happened.
Iteration 1
Blueprint concept
First direction: a navy engineering-schematic look — title-block hero, hairline grid, a node diagram for the hero. Restrained and technical.
Iteration 2
Playful redesign
Feedback: too restrained, wanted something eye-catching with real animation. Rebuilt with a violet/pink/mint palette, bouncy type, drifting gradient blobs, and scroll-triggered reveals.
Iteration 3
Studied a real award-winner
Found forai.design — an actual Awwwards honorable mention — and pulled real lessons from it: one dominant hero visual instead of scattered small ones, far more whitespace, a bigger type scale, and a subtle film-grain texture.
Iteration 4
Space theme + mission timeline
Found another real Awwwards site — a cosmic scrollytelling piece — and adapted its light-to-dark scroll journey into a full space theme: a starfield, a ringed hero planet, and a glowing energy line connecting the hero straight into the three build-stage nodes below it.
Real screenshots
Two working features from this build, captured mid-session — not mockups.
Example modal, mid-build
Step demo modal, mid-build