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SmarterLicense

A friendly, character-led brand identity and Webflow waitlist site for a powerful creative licensing platform.

SmarterLicense is a creative licensing platform built to make rights, attribution, and payment easier to manage in fast-moving digital environments.

As a strategic design partner, we supported SmarterLicense as they prepared for their global debut, shaping a comprehensive brand identity and a Webflow waitlist website designed to explain a complex product without making it feel intimidating. Our goal was to build a bridge between high-level tech and the creators who use it.

Project Team

Branding: Louise Jezequel and Cecilia Righini

UX Design: Zoe Tang

UI Design: Cecilia Righini

Newsletter Design: Alaïs de Saint Louvent

Development: Marthea Komoltseva and Sofiia Bondarenko

Animation: Sam Gee

The Challenge

The licensing space is often dense with legal language and tech jargon. Our job wasn’t just to “make it look good”—it was to engineer trust. People needed to understand what the platform enabled while feeling confident that it was credible, secure, and creator-friendly.

Drawing on our expertise in user-centered design, we knew the brand needed to feel distinctive and memorable to secure a foothold in an already crowded market.

What We Did

We developed a visual identity designed to balance sophistication with warmth. A core part of this was creating a character-led icon—a smiling brain with limbs—which brings a sense of friendly intelligence to the brand. This signals that the product is smart, but not cold.

From there, we applied the identity across key launch touchpoints. We designed the information architecture of the waitlist site so the product story unfolds in a guided way: clear introduction, high-level feature framing, and straightforward calls-to-action.

By leveraging Webflow’s capabilities, we used subtle animation to support understanding without adding friction.

The result is a scalable brand system that gives SmarterLicense a recognisable presence—that can hold complexity, while still feeling calm and readable—and a clear foundation for future growth.

Impact

For early-stage platforms, trust is a core component of the product. By pairing a distinctive identity with a clear, structured website experience, we provided SmarterLicense with a powerful tool for market entry—one that feels credible and approachable.

The character-led logo and supporting brand assets gave the team a memorable anchor they can reuse across marketing and social channels, ensuring brand consistency as the platform evolves. Meanwhile, the waitlist site provided a simple path for audiences to orient themselves quickly—proving that strategic digital infrastructure is the key to a successful product launch.

SmarterLicense logo icons, a cute hand-drawn character with a big visible brain, legs and arm. On the top left there is the icon with the face only, and on the bottom right the version with legs and raised arms. The left arm is holding a little star.
SmarterLicense stack of responsive logos, with the icons appearing in the different positions of the edited Helvetica logotype.
Two SmarterLicence app screens on a dark background; left shows tree logo, right lists top features for buyers and creatives.
Two dark-mode mobile app screens display the SmarterLicence dashboard with listing tools, Features button, savings, costs, and staff stats.