If your homepage is 80% pitch and 20% proof, flip the ratio.
With AI, anyone can launch a clean, modern website in an afternoon.
Which means visual polish tells a customer absolutely nothing about you anymore.
For years, a good-looking site was a proxy for trust. If the design looked legitimate, buyers assumed the business was legitimate.
AI broke that proxy overnight.
Today, skeptical buyers don’t trust surface-level design. They skip the clever copy and look one layer deeper:
• Who is the actual human behind this?
• How many times have they actually done the work?
• Where are the unfiltered reviews and verifiable receipts?
The order of evaluation has completely flipped:
Your business concept comes last now. Proof of work comes first.
People don’t buy what you claim you can do. They buy when they can verify you’ve already done it.
Stop spending 5 sections pitching your offer. Lead with the evidence.
Your next favorite display font might be hiding in this list.
4 grotesk typefaces worth adding to your design toolkit:
ateliertriay.github.io/brico… — Bricolage Grotesque
befonts.com/amiamie-font-fam… — Amiamie
noirblancrouge.com/fonts/lil… — Lil Grotesk
usemodify.com/fonts/lunchtyp… — Lunchtype
Save these for your next bold hero section. 🔖
Static icons are fine. Animated icons make interfaces feel alive.
Bookmark these 10 animated icon resources for your next UI project.
icons8.com — Animated Fluency icons
animatedicons.co/icons/minim… — Minimal animated icons
itshover.com/icons — Interactive hover animations
unicornicons.com — Animated icons for modern interfaces
lucide-animated.com — Animated Lucide icons
lordicon.com — Customizable animated icons
finsweet.com/lottieflow/cate… — Lottie animations for Webflow
allsvgicons.com/collections/… — Animated SVG icon collections
useanimations.com/#icons — Micro-interaction icons
creattie.com/lottie-animated… — Lottie animated icon library
Save this list. Your next interface might need it. 🔖







