MARKETING SITE
2022

/GRK / SITE

A marketing site for a premium residential development. Editorial layout, large imagery, restrained typography — designed so the architecture stays the hero, not the interface.

CLIENT /
GRK Infra Realty
ROLE /
Design lead
TIMELINE /
2 months
TOOLS /
Figma · Webflow · Photoshop
GRK Real Estate Marketing Site hero
[01] Overview

Project at
a glance.

Editorial layout Marketing site Real estate Premium brand

GRK's existing website looked like every other regional developer's site. The brand had upgraded to a premium price point — the digital presence had to follow. The constraint: the architecture itself was the product, so the interface had to disappear and let the building speak.

Pages designed
18
Sections
9
Sales handoff
Day one
02 THE PROBLEM

PREMIUM REAL ESTATE WITH GENERIC WEB PRESENCE.

GRK Infra had a premium product and a website that looked like every other regional developer's site. Stock photos, dense type, layouts that competed with the property. The brand had upgraded — the site hadn't followed.

[03] Research

How I got
to the answer.

A mix of methods, scaled to the size of the project. The goal: get to the underlying user need without overengineering the research phase.

METHOD 01

Reference audit

Studied 20+ premium real estate sites globally (NYC condos, Singapore developments, London townhouses) to map shared design principles.

METHOD 02

Stakeholder interviews

Talked with the sales team about which prospect questions came up most often, to map content priorities.

METHOD 03

Content audit

Catalogued existing brand assets — photography, floor plans, brochures — to identify what could ladder up to the new site.

Key insights

What the research surfaced — distilled to the three things that drove every design decision after.

01
Premium real estate sites share three traits: full-bleed imagery, generous whitespace, type that gets out of the way.
02
Prospects don't read on real estate sites — they look. Most decisions are visual. Copy supports the image, not the other way around.
03
Sales reps use the site as a handoff to prospects. The site has to do the pre-selling before the site visit happens.
04 APPROACH

EDITORIAL PACING, ARCHITECTURE AS THE HERO.

Premium real estate sites share three traits: full-bleed imagery, generous white space, type that gets out of the way. I designed the site around those principles. Big photography drove every section. Type stayed in the supporting role.

Approach visual
Supporting visual
[05] Design Process

Four phases,
one outcome.

The same process on every project, scaled to the size of the brief. Predictable enough to plan against, flexible enough to fit the work.

PHASE 01

Discover

Reference audit, stakeholder interviews, content audit.

PHASE 02

Define

Editorial principles, content priorities, photography brief.

PHASE 03

Design

18 pages, modular section library, photography style guide.

PHASE 04

Build

Webflow build with CMS for floor plans and unit availability.

Process detail
Process detail
06 OUTCOME

SUPPORTED THE Q1 SALES PUSH.

The site launched alongside the broader brand campaign and supported the qualified-inquiry lift in the first quarter post-launch. Used by sales as the primary digital handoff to prospects before site visits.

Final outcome
[07] Reflection

The hardest part of designing for premium real estate is knowing when to stop adding. The fewer interface elements on screen, the more the building itself can speak.

Sushmanth · 2022
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