2026 · The website suite
Design and build · Consultiqe and AVB
Knowing what good looks like, and specifying it precisely enough to build.
A family of sites built to 2026 principles: the Consultiqe firm platform and this AVB portfolio, one token-driven system, designed and built in collaboration with AI, directed and overruled where judgement demanded.
The Build
I am not a developer. I know what a brief should feel like, where the standard sits, and when something is not good enough; AI supplied the code. What used to sit between the intention and the artefact was a developer; what sits there now is a specification precise enough to build against. That is what low-code delivery runs on, and two production sites are the evidence.
The System
One token block drives both sites. Ten pages, no framework, no build step: the suite reads with JavaScript off and honours reduced-motion. AI produced options at every layer, each adopted, redirected or declined on merit.
Selected · the suite
Two opposite briefs, one system.
Hover a site to play it through.
Judgement Call
Range is harder than a house style. One signature look applied everywhere is quicker to produce and easier to defend, but it serves the designer rather than the brief. Consultiqe is restrained because a regulated firm needs to look accountable; the Pinucci storefront was fashion-led because the brief was fashion. Same discipline, deliberately different outcomes.
What this demonstrates
- Two sites on one token-driven design system, no framework
- Progressive enhancement: fully functional with JavaScript off, reduced-motion honoured
- Range across two eras and toolsets: Shopify, Magento and POS at Pinucci, token-driven static now
- Case studies built as animated showcases, every exhibit recreated rather than screenshotted
- AI collaboration as a directed dimension of the build, not the whole of it
The Outcome
Two live sites on one token system: content is the product and the skin is replaceable, which is why a colour change is a token edit rather than a rebuild. The argument is made in code rather than asserted, and you are reading it.