Opening move
I’m Samuel Amanze,
the designer and developer behind
Thedesigngrandmaster.
I build websites, apps and graphic identities from scratch. Every project is drawn, written and shipped from scratch.
Opening book
The board
The board.
A short selection. 14 live builds sit behind it, across fintech, health, retail and media.
Suise
A payments dashboard that makes moving money feel calm instead of clinical.
A01Luxe
A luxury storefront and admin surface built around product photography.
Pulse Talks
A talks platform with editorial pacing and a speaker-first home page.
Women in Leadership
A programme site built to convert readers into applicants.
Repertoire
Repertoire.
From start to finish. Strategy, design and engineering happen in the same head, so nothing gets lost in a handover.
The game plan
The game plan.
01
The opening
Discovery. Goals, audience, constraints and what the site has to do.
02
Development
Design. Art direction, layout and type, reviewed in the browser, not in slides.
03
The middlegame
Build. Front end engineering, real content, real data, real states.
04
The endgame
Launch. Performance, SEO, handover and a month of watching it run.
14+
Projects shipped
24
Months building
100%
Built from scratch
Post-game analysis
What clients say.
“He read the brief better than we wrote it. The site launched on time and the numbers moved in the first month.”
Daniel OkaforFounder, Suise
“We came in with a half-finished brand. What came back was a full identity and a store that converts.”
Amara BelloDirector, A01Luxe
“Clear thinking, no drama, no template smell anywhere in the build. We have sent him three referrals since.”
Tunde AdeyemiProducer, Pulse Talks
Make your move
Let's build something together.
Retainer
Monthly partnership
Ongoing design and engineering capacity for teams that ship continuously.
- □Rolling design and build queue
- □Two active requests at a time
- □Weekly review call
- □Pause or stop any month
Scoped
Fixed project
One defined build with a fixed scope, timeline and price agreed up front.
- □Full discovery and art direction
- □Design plus front end build
- □Launch, SEO and handover
- □30 days of post-launch support
Opening questions
Opening questions.
Marketing sites, web apps, dashboards and brand identities. If it lives in a browser, it is in scope.
A focused marketing site runs two to three weeks. A product build with real data runs four to eight, depending on scope.
Yes. If you have a usable identity, I design inside it. If it is holding you back, I will say so and quote the fix separately.
First-draft copy is included on every build so the layout is designed around real words, not placeholder text.
Your goal, any existing assets and one decision maker who can approve work. That is enough for the opening.
I take two active projects at a time. Send the brief and you will get a straight answer on timing within a day.
Checkmate
Tell me what you're building.
Send the brief, the budget range and the deadline. You will get a real answer, not a pitch deck.
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