Case Study · Concept 02

Quill — selling AI writing to people who distrust AI writing.

A landing page concept for a writing assistant whose hardest audience is its own: writers who believe AI tools flatten their voice.

Type — Concept project Scope — Strategy, copy, design, build Timeline — 7 days
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The brief

Every AI writing tool shouts "10x faster." Writers hear "10x more generic."

Quill reads as you write, suggests without interrupting, and rewrites without rewriting you. The page couldn't borrow the usual AI-product playbook — sparkle icons, speed claims, purple gradients — because those are precisely the signals its audience has learned to distrust.

The approach

A page that reads like a book. Single narrow column, generous line height, serif body — the layout itself argues that this is a tool made by people who care about reading.

Demo the restraint, not the power. The hero is a live writing surface: text types itself, a weak phrase gets struck through, a suggestion appears quietly below the page — accepted with one keystroke. The product's whole personality in eight seconds.

Narrative beats over feature grids. Three numbered chapters replace the standard three-column feature section, each making one promise and proving it with a small interactive demo.

Design decisions

Typography

Newsreader — an optical-size serif made for screens — for headlines and the writing surface. Albert Sans for UI, Courier Prime as the typewriter accent.

Color

Warm paper, near-black text, one ink blue for everything Quill does — plus highlighter yellow, the most familiar editing color there is.

Layout

A 760px reading column — magazine width, not marketing width. Wide layouts appear only where UI is being shown.

Motion

Everything moves at reading speed: a blinking caret, a slow strikethrough, gentle reveals. No parallax, nothing bouncing for attention.

Your product has a voice too. Let's make the page sound like it.

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