Clear Street — storytelling with icons/3D when photos are scarce
Why it works
Great storytelling elements and other design ideas for saas and clients who don't provide much photos: icons, 3d work, animations. Content and order of conversation with user makes quite a lot of sense. Public page: Clear Street — brokerage infrastructure for sophisticated investors.
What I'd steal
Storytelling via icons, 3D, and animation when the client won't give photos; a content order that walks the user through a sensible conversation.
What I'd never do
Defaulting to empty stock-photo heroes when the real move is custom icons / 3D / motion for a photo-poor SaaS client.
For assistants / Brush
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}- Enterprise-ready
- Quiet expert authority
- Hard to trust
- Commodity feel