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Concept study · Mountain custom homes - Bozeman, MT

Ridgeline Builders

Stone and blackened timber at altitude in Bozeman. The redesign gives the work a quiet, cinematic stage that loads in a blink.

This is a concept redesign. Ridgeline Builders is an illustrative firm, invented to show the approach. It is not a past client and not a real business. Your site would be built around your own work, start to finish.

At a glance

The same firm. One of these is losing them the work.

Current site Koster redesign
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As we found it

Their website, in full - and everything working against them.

ridgelinebuilders.com
  1. 1

    Logo pixelated at 2×

    The logo is a small bitmap stretched to fit. On any modern screen it breaks apart.

  2. 2

    An award with no name

    “Award-winning” is stamped in the header and the hero. No award is ever named, dated, or linked.

  3. 3

    Portfolio is a 240 MB PDF

    To see the work you download a PDF that stalls on a phone and never opens on the first try.

What changed

Three decisions, and nothing more than needed.

  1. 01

    The award claim comes down until there is one to name.

  2. 02

    The portfolio is the page itself - no download, no wait, no dead end.

  3. 03

    The logo is drawn as vector. It stays sharp at any size, on any screen.

The redesign

The same firm, built to look like the work.

ridgelinebuilders.com