I use the Microsoft Surface.
If you are that paranoid don’t use the internet on your work device.
Personally, I have more important things to use my time on than preventing companies from building an (often incorrect) ad profile of my ip.
3.5 is not too great. 4 is a gigantic leap, try that and then report back. If 4 isn’t working for you it’s probably the user not the tool, I can use 4 for a huge amount of things and it can handle very specific instructions.
Maybe, if I needed a simple website and didn’t already know how to do that myself, yours looks decent enough if whatever I need a website for isn’t too important.
What I would not hire you guys for is branding. Your own website has design and copy that I can best describe as uninspired. What is your own brand identity supposed to be besides white and orange and the word “professional”? What do you uniquely bring to the table and how can I feel that in your design? Currently I feel no creativity there, you’ve got a handful of nested containers with radius corners and drop shadow, just like the next 1000 sites I will visit. That’s a problem for a design agency.
Right now you list the things every designer strives to do but what are you doing differently or what unique experience do you bring to the table? Do you have some strange background that gives you an interesting edge? Do you have a portfolio that shows great work at half the price of competitors? I don’t know because you didn’t tell me in those key points.
You’re four web experts supposedly, but I’m just supposed to take your word for it I guess. You’ve got a one page site with no references to past work or anything. If your target audience is me, you lost me because of this immediately. If your target audience is tiny businesses who are tech illiterate, you’ve lost them because you don’t list a single name or photo on the site so they have no clue who you are.
If you have had no clients yet, that’s ok, at least make some example sites to show off the breadth of your skills. Take the opportunity to really go to the extremes and show off the most stylized sites. Even Apple has a stylized site, but most important their brand identity is crystal clear.
So maybe I’d hire you if I already had a full Figma mockup of my site, because I assume you can at least build a website. But I definitely wouldn’t trust you with my brand identity.
Software engineers are in huge demand. This post doesn’t make much sense. Maybe you are overestimating your abilities.
If you’re talking about web dev that has gotten split between UI/UX designers (also in big demand right now) and back end developers.
SWE isn’t drying up any time soon. Least of all to AI right now, it produces bad code so often. Remember it takes more time to fix bad code than to write good code the first time.
Coffee does not agree with me, but I found that chai tea has been an excellent substitute
The page is nice looking but those store mockups look awful. It goes from a very generic template to an early 2000s item page. You couldn’t pay me to make a store look like that. I think that needs to be like your main thing to improve