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Design studio marketing ideas: opinions are the product
The fastest way to market a design studio is to add vanes: one tap questions that turn your convictions into measured data. Two seconds to answer, no login, and every tally is a number you can put in a pitch.
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Fewer projects. Stronger opinions.Brand identity · Packaging · Editorial ← Tap it What is a vane?
A one tap question you place anywhere on your website.
- 1Place the vane… anywhere
Engage visitors throughout your web content.
- 2Visitors tap
It's intended to be quick, fun and interesting.
- 3You get the data
Live in your dashboard: to fix problems early, plan the menu, and publish numbers worth quoting.
Design studio poll questions to steal
Questions people actually answer.
Paste these into the builder or swap in your own convictions. Anything you argue with clients about is worth measuring.
Opinions with numbers
Every studio claims conviction. A studio that measures its convictions in public and publishes the tally has something a prospect cannot wave away as taste.
Where should it go on a design studio website?
The right format for every part of your site.
The best spots are the process page, case studies, the journal, the proposal follow up, and the studio newsletter.
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Presenting three options is a failure of nerve
The industry does it, clients expect it, and it produces worse work every time. Worth settling with a count rather than another opinion piece.
The process page
A word trigger inside your one-route rule.
Best formatHot Take
Turns a studio conviction into a citable number.
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News · This week
Presenting three options is a failure of nerve
The industry does it, clients expect it, and it produces worse work every time. Worth settling with a count rather than another opinion piece.
Case studies
A gut call on the direction clients resisted.
Best formatSnap Judgment
Real reactions before the client presentation.
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News · This week
Presenting three options is a failure of nerve
The industry does it, clients expect it, and it produces worse work every time. Worth settling with a count rather than another opinion piece.
The journal
Industry debates that produce citable numbers.
Best formatRank It
Proves strategy and nerve beat craft alone.
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The proposal follow up
A Confidence Vote while the pitch is warm.
Best formatSort the Bins
The revisions debate every studio is having.
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News · This week
Presenting three options is a failure of nerve
The industry does it, clients expect it, and it produces worse work every time. Worth settling with a count rather than another opinion piece.
The newsletter
The worst-feedback wall, which designers adore.
Best formatFill the Blank
Shared endlessly within the industry.
You get the data
The crowd tells you what to do next.
Every answer lands in your dashboard the moment it's given. Spot a rough morning before it becomes a review, see which drinks earn their place, and export it all in one click.
Start freeIllustrations with sample answers.
Run it as a survey
Same questions. One link.
Send the same 3 questions as one anonymous link, by email, QR code or receipt. Answers come back person by person.
Build this survey, prefilled → How surveys workCommon questions
What owners ask us.
How do design studios win work without competing on price?
Publish evidence that your opinions are right. A live tally on whether presenting three routes signals indecision is a number you can bring to every proposal conversation, and no competitor has one.
What should a studio website have besides a portfolio?
Measured convictions. Portfolios show what you made; a tally showing thousands of people agree with your process argument shows why you made it that way.
Can this test work before a client sees it?
A gut call on a direction, run quietly before a presentation, gives you real reactions rather than internal studio consensus.
Do visitors need an account?
No. Anonymous single taps, which is why designers happily argue with your process page.
VANE it for design studios
Measure the argument you always have
One script tag, free to start, and your convictions arrive with numbers.