AJ Picard — founder of Chad

Being a designer + entrepreneur are both amazing jobs, I absolutely love being able to bring other peoples ideas/visions to life through design. The best part about being a designer + entrepreneur is that I can bring my vision to life and actually make it a business!

I redesigned Chad, which is my startup I’ve been working on for a year plus you can learn more about it below.

I’m still learning how to code which has prevented me to create custom websites + help with developing Chad.

I am making progress though…

I’ve tried Shopify and it’s a great product but it’s mostly focused on e-commerce. I’ve tried Wordpress and Wix but I always get the feeling that what I’m building on there isn’t legit and you’re restricted with what you can do.

Introducing Webflow

In early January I came across Webflow online and was amazed by all the customization it has to offer and more importantly how easily you can implement animations.

I designed Chad’s first website in February, which you can see below. To be honest there’s barely any animation and it looks pretty plane.

Old Website

I then decided to watch more of the Webflow tutorials that they offer and redesigned our website.

New Website

This isn’t live yet because I’m still working out a few kinks but it will be coming out soon. I’m still working on adding Typeform & a pop-up window for users to subscribe to our newsletter into the website, still not sure where to put these items. To say the least I’m really happy with the progress so far.

Animation

Webflow offers a list of animations that you can choose from to really bring your website to life. As a designer, you can add animations to your website designs using After Effects or Principle, with Webflow you can not only build a live website but you can add the animations you’ve designed as well.

Here’s a list of the animations Webflow teaches you to implement: