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A close, warm-lit hero of premium engineered wood flooring for Northwind

Selected work

Brand · UX · 3D

Northwind Flooring

Premium flooring you can almost feel through the screen.

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Aga Durdy Studio — Web design, AU & NZ

We sell taste.
AI sells speed.

Anyone can generate a clean website in minutes. The edge — the thing that makes people slow down and remember — is taste: real copy, a brand with a point of view, accessibility done properly, and one deliberately unreasonable detail per build. That part is still human work.

Next.js + Framer Motion
The stack, sharpened by taste
WCAG-minded
Accessible by default
Real copy
Never lorem, never filler
One signature detail
Per build, unreasonable on purpose
01Selected work

Five builds, five points of view.

Each one started from the same stack everyone is using. What sets them apart is the brief read closely, the role taken seriously, and a result that earns its keep. Read the brief, the role, and the result.

01

Northwind Flooring

Premium flooring you can almost feel through the screen.

The brief
Make people feel the material — then book a consult.
My role
Brand, UX, a 3D wood-plank hero, and a scroll-driven “material morph.”
The result
Tactile, interactive, unmistakably $10k-grade.

↳ Signature:A hero plank that morphs grain and finish as you scroll.

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02

Maraş

Turkish stretch ice cream, given a heritage it deserves.

The brief
Build a heritage brand and a retail line from a blank page.
My role
Naming and brand identity (a heritage seal), 3D product tubs, playful-premium motion.
The result
A boutique-heritage brand with an in-store product line.

↳ Signature:A hero scoop that genuinely stretches as you pull the page.

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03

Lumière

Michelin-tier prestige, slowed to a hush.

The brief
Sell Michelin-tier prestige and take reservations.
My role
Cinematic dark editorial, a scroll-pinned 12-course menu.
The result
Hushed, expensive, deliberately slow.

↳ Signature:A 12-course menu that reveals itself one plate at a time, pinned to your scroll.

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04

Lumina Dental

A clinic people trust before they walk in.

The brief
Build trust fast and book consultations.
My role
Clean clinical UX, a before/after gallery, WCAG AA throughout.
The result
Reassuring, conversion-focused, fully accessible.

↳ Signature:A before/after slider tuned for trust, not spectacle — and audited to AA.

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05

Marlowe & Vane

Estates that whisper. Leads that qualify themselves.

The brief
Showcase estates and capture genuinely qualified leads.
My role
Quiet-luxury editorial, cinematic listings, dynamic detail pages.
The result
Prestige, architectural, and quietly lead-driven.

↳ Signature:An architectural cursor reticle that frames each estate as you browse.

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02Approach

Taste is the bottleneck now  not the tech.

The web is filling with clean, competent, identical sites — the average of everything a model has seen. I treat AI as the fastest junior I've ever worked with: brilliant at speed, hopeless at judgement. The judgement is mine. So is the brand, the copy, the accessibility, and the one detail that makes a site impossible to forget.

01

Read the brief like a person

Before a single component, I get clear on who it's for, what it has to do, and where the current site is losing them. The best taste decisions are downstream of understanding the business.

02

Brand, copy, structure — then pixels

Voice and message come first; layout serves them. I write the words, set the tone, and build the information architecture so the design has something true to dress.

03

Build fast, on a sharp stack

Next.js, Framer Motion, and a careful design system let me move at AI speed without shipping the average of everything that already exists. Speed is the floor, not the product.

04

Add one unreasonable detail

Every build gets a single signature move that nobody asked for and everybody remembers — a stretch hero, a pinned menu, a cursor that frames the work. That's the part you can't generate.

03Services

From a single page to the whole studio.

Three ways to work together. Every engagement includes brand thinking, real copy, accessibility, and the signature detail — those aren't add-ons, they're the point.

Landing pages

One page that converts.

A single, focused page for a launch, a campaign, or a new offer — written, designed, and built to do one job extremely well.

  • Copy + design + build
  • Motion that earns attention
  • Live in days, not weeks

Full websites

The whole story, properly told.

Multi-page sites with real structure: work, about, services, contact, and the connective tissue that makes a small studio feel established.

  • Information architecture
  • Reusable design system
  • SEO + accessibility built in

Brand + website

Identity and site, as one piece.

Naming, voice, marks, and a site designed around them from the first sketch — so the brand and the build never feel like strangers.

  • Naming + identity
  • Voice + messaging
  • Site designed to match
04Start a project

Tell me what you're building.

A sentence about the project is enough to start. I read every enquiry myself, reply within one business day, and we'll figure out whether it's a landing page, a full site, or a brand-and-build from there.

Based
Working with founders across Australia & New Zealand — remote, async, on your timezone.
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