Legal · Design study

Authority doesn't raise its voice.

A self-directed design study: a law firm's website built to look like advice worth paying for — where every design decision answers to the one conversion that matters, the booked consultation.

Type
Design study — self-directed, no client
Sector
Legal / professional services
Scope
Full site — design, copy structure, motion, build
Stack
Hand-coded, deployed on Vercel
Status
Live study, linked below
The reasoning

Restraint is the argument.

Law firm sites tend to shout — stock gavels, skyline photos, “excellence” in the first sentence. This study makes the opposite bet: that a prospective client reads calm, typographic confidence as competence. Serif-weighted hierarchy, long measured lines, hairline rules, almost no colour.

Underneath the quiet, the site is ruthlessly practical: practice areas one click from anywhere, the consultation booking always in reach, and motion held to the barest settling of content — a firm hand, not a performance.

Run a firm that sells judgement?