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What a great website brief actually looks like

The best projects we’ve shipped all started with a brief that was short, specific and honest about the problem.

Yuki Tanaka

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One goal, written down

A good brief names a single outcome the site must achieve — more demo requests, fewer support emails, a clearer story for investors. Everything else becomes a supporting decision.

Constraints are a gift

Budgets, deadlines and technical limits aren’t obstacles to hide. Sharing them early lets us design the right solution instead of the most expensive one.

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