Thrad

Positioning and brand for an ad-tech platform with two very different audiences.

Web Design

Strategy

Animation

Branding

Role

Your Role

Year

2026

Contribution

Designer

Platform

iOS

I treated this as a positioning problem, not a paint job. The site didn't need to look nicer — it needed to say the right thing, in the right order, to the right person. So I locked the messaging first; the design's the easy part once you know what you're actually saying.

It was trying to pitch advertisers and publishers on one page, so I made advertisers the main path and gave publishers their own track — plus a section that just explains what a "publisher" even is, since nobody knew. I wireframed the whole narrative before touching design, so the story drove the layout instead of the reverse. And instead of one-off AI imagery, I built one modular brand system tied to the "thread" idea — pieces you pull from, never the whole look dumped on screen at once.

A real, coherent brand replaced the generated mess — something the team could actually reuse across the site, LinkedIn, and marketing. It shipped as a multi-page, enterprise-grade site inside a tight three-week, $5K scope, and got signed off without a fight, which honestly doesn't happen that often.

Normalized units of work. Benchmarked against comparable teams, last 13 weeks.

104/wk
90th percentile
03875113150Median · 60Median · 60Jan 19Feb 2Feb 16Mar 2Mar 16Mar 30Apr 13

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Something

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Let's

Make

Something

The best projects start as a conversation, not a brief. Send me a bit about what you're building and where you're stuck — if there's a fit, we'll take it from there.

Let's

Make

Something

The best projects start as a conversation, not a brief. Send me a bit about what you're building and where you're stuck — if there's a fit, we'll take it from there.

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