Designing to Delight by Christine Marie

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Designing to Delight is now OPEN!
Master the Art of Drama-Free Design
The step-by-step web design process proven to allow you to create confidently, charge more, and totally delight your clients.

You’re tired of stalled projects, frustrated clients, and out-of-control timelines. You’d love to uplevel your design business so you can charge more for your work – but you’re stuck on a hamster wheel and too overwhelmed to see a way through the drama.

How do you…

Take complex projects in confidence, knowing you can deliver?
Master your design schedule and keep clients on track?
Guide clients and avoid endless changes, revisions, and frustration?
Master the “taking what they say and turn it into a design they love” part of design?

You might be questioning your design skills… or wondering if this business you love is actually viable. You might be wondering what you’re doing wrong and feeling wounded when clients can’t just relax and trust. But here’s the thing – it’s not personal, your problem is your process.
You need a design process that allows clients to participate with you – at the right points along the way – securing their trust and making your projects go profitably and oh-so-smoothly.

Hi, I’m Christine, creator of Designing to Delight and Christine Marie Studio. Over 25 years – I’ve honed my collaborative design process – eliminating multiple concepts and extra revision cycles, creating client trust and increasing my ability to charge more for my work.
Designing to Delight is a behind-the-scenes look at my design process, created to show you exactly how I gather client information and translate it into a design my client loves and is happy to pay for.
Over the last 5 years, this same design process has allowed me to more than 10x my income per project (for the same work).

In DtD, I’ll guide you through the discovery and design phases of a typical web design project, specifically Client Intake, Research, Wireframing, Styling and creating a Homepage concept. Worksheets and other prompts will help you apply what you learn to your very next project. You can take immediate action, and even kickstart the stalled projects on your plate right now.


Here’s what you get in Designing to Delight

Designing to Delight teaches you how to master the art of drama-free design — specifically — establishing a smooth design process and guiding clients through it.

Each video lesson is approximately 10-20 minutes long, with the optional tutorials running a little longer. It’s a course you’ll take action on immediately, incorporating what you learn into your very next project.

3-17 Overview
Lesson 1: Course Overview

Learn the “how-to” behind strategic design thinking and learn how shifting your approach gives you confidence (before you even get started) so you can reach the perfect design solution, for every client, every time.
Discover how a repeatable design process will allow you to dedicate your creative energy to the design, rather than become a slave to the process.

3-17 Interpreting the Client Intake
Lesson 2: Interpreting the Client Intake

Use the sample blank client intake + cheat sheet provided to craft a questionnaire that extracts what you need from the client to deliver the best result.
Learn how to translate your client’s answers into the next steps for their project (it’s easier than you think).

3-17 Research
Lesson 3: Researching Relevant Inspiration

Understand why visual brainstorming is an important part of crafting designs that are perceived by the world as intended.
Discover techniques for helping clients establish the right brand personality words that will serve as a strong foundation for your visual research.
Learn how to break down your client’s answers into a starting point for your research, so you can gather the most relevant inspiration to be influenced by (which is the fastest way to the best solution).

3-17 Wireframes
Lesson 4: Creating a Custom Wireframe

Create an effective, functional structure for your client’s website based on their business goals. Learn why involving clients this early increases trust and reduces revision cycles.
Save tons of time! Get your wireframes started using a complete set of custom Illustrator wireframe templates.

3-17 Style Tiles
Lesson 5: Establishing a Design Starting Point

Learn how style tiles can completely streamline your design process and keep you from wasting hours going in the wrong direction.
Discover how incorporating style tiles allows the client to participate (and build trust) before “real design” begins (not after everything is set in stone!)

3-17 Homepage Concept
Lesson 6: Designing the Homepage Concept

Learn how to consolidate the collaborative work you’ve done so far into a single “best” solution your client will love.
Discover how client approval on structure and styling will significantly shorten design time and reduce revision cycles.

3-17 Also Included
Bonus Lessons also Included!

Bonus: Leading Clients thru a Drama Free Design Experience – Learn how to guide clients through the process, as well as collect and apply feedback (without fearing it!)
Bonus: How to Schedule a Design Project – Learn how to plan your projects in a way that actually helps clients gather and prioritize content without schedule-breaking delays.

3-17 Group Support
Group Support Track Only

Everything in the Self-Study Track, including 2 bonus lessons plus…
Web Design Strategy 101 – Learn my simple approach to applying strategic design principles throughout an entire website.
Logo Design 101 – Learn how to take a logo from inspiration to final concept easily, while guiding clients to a logo they love.
Plug & play tasks and scripts for your entire design process (onboarding to launch) – get access to a master client Basecamp project you’ll use to flesh out your own process.
Join the private Facebook group for the course. It’s a supportive place to ask questions, get feedback and be encouraged by others going through the course. Includes 2 live Q&A calls.

I have finally found the confidence to niche down and find peace in my business.
Camille Lawson

+ Read Camille’s Success Story
The course has helped me hone my process and really makes the clients feel like it’s a white glove service.
Julia McPherson
This puts me on a path to attract the best clients to my business with a tailored and refined approach.
Sasha-Shae Weekes

+ Read Sasha-Shae’s Story
I went from charging $250 to $1,499 for my base brand development package in 5 months.
Ingrid Urena

+ Read Ingrid’s Success Story
I’ve upped my prices about 25% since working through your course and my clients are happier.
Veronica Wirth
[The course] outlines a brilliant process for dealing with clients in any design capacity.
Ingrid Anderson
ZERO revisions on the mockup! The process went very smoothly and everyone was happy with the final product!
Angie Webb

+ Watch Angie’s Success Story
Christine is a great teacher with a commitment to transparency.
Sandee Jackson
So what’s the investment?

You can figure it out on your own, but do you want to? Research, implementing, testing, and trial and error — all take time — time you could be working on better projects for better clients.

Instead, learn from the design process I’ve honed over 25 years of working in the industry. Avoid my mistakes and mis-steps. Skip over all that and delight your very next client.
Self-Study Track
Self-Study Track
$497
single payment
Entire Designing to Delight Course
Worksheets & resources
How to Schedule a Design Project
Leading Clients thru a Drama-Free Design Experience
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Self-Study Track / 6 months
$98/mo
6 monthly payments (choose from the dropdown at checkout)
Entire Designing to Delight Course
Worksheets & resources
How to Schedule a Design Project
Leading Clients thru a Drama-Free Design Experience
Buy Now!
Group Support Track
Group Support Track
$797
single payment
Entire Designing to Delight Course
Worksheets & resources
How to Schedule a Design Project
Leading Clients thru a Drama-Free Design Experience
Web Design Strategy 101
Logo Design 101
Plug & play tasks and scripts for your entire design process
Access via private Facebook community & 2 live Q&A calls
Buy Now!
Group Support Track / 6 months
$148/mo
6 monthly payments (choose from the dropdown at checkout)
Entire Designing to Delight Course
Worksheets & resources
How to Schedule a Design Project
Leading Clients thru a Drama-Free Design Experience
Web Design Strategy 101
Logo Design 101
Plug & play tasks and scripts for your entire design process
Access via private Facebook community & 2 live Q&A calls
Buy Now!

Risk-free guarantee. I want you to be thrilled with DtD! If after 10 days, you’ve done the work and haven’t seen the results, show me your completed worksheets and I’ll give you a full refund. Payments are processed securely through Stripe. To pay via PayPal, please email [email protected] with your preferred course “track” and payment plan.
Who is Christine Marie Studio?

I’m a brand and web designer, wife, and mom of two, frequently distracted by two crazy pugs. As a designer, I love well-crafted fonts, white space and simplicity. Over the last 25 years, I’ve worked with all kinds of clients, on all kinds of projects.

In 2012, I founded Christine Marie Studio and began working with women entrepreneurs similar to myself. I’ve worked with some amazing individuals! I’m known for my ability to translate what my clients say into a design that captures their unique brand personality – taking their words and creating a design they love!

As my process evolved, I quickly learned that encouraging clients to actively participate resulted in better designs. My clients were delighted, and I was rewarded with their complete trust in the process. This way of working is what I’m sharing with you in Designing to Delight.
I’m passionate about designers loving what they do.

It’s why I started teaching what I know. Being a designer isn’t always easy, but interacting with clients and designing things for them should feel collaborative and satisfying – without the drama of them taking over, dragging you through endless revision cycles, or modifying your designs until you cringe.
You can be 100% confident in your ability to nail any design project you take on – with less headache and more joy – giving you the ability to charge for each new project.

Here’s why I know you can…

Marketing strategies come and go. Design tools change. But the process of design itself doesn’t really change. Mastering the design process – learning how to guide clients and translate their vision into a design they love – is the key to confidence. And #bonus… the key to charging a lot more for your work.

I can’t wait to teach you!
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