# Read references as design systems



The operator's references illustrate thoughtful business-specific design:



- https://verdict-nextjs-template.vercel.app/ — restrained authority, editorial hierarchy, and evidence appropriate to professional services.

- https://apex-nextjs-template.vercel.app/ — tangible work, materials, process, and a clear service inquiry.

- https://munch-nextjs-template.vercel.app/ — a restaurant identity expressed through typography, color, photography, and menu presentation.



These are references to inspect when useful, not industry templates to reproduce. Describe the visible relationship you would borrow and why it serves this business. For example, a large project photograph followed by a compact process explanation can move a visitor from evidence to action. A dark band or rounded card by itself has no such rationale.



Look at the whole page and a representative interior. Ask what gets the largest emphasis, where density changes, how photographs are framed, how type creates identity, what repeats, and how a visitor reaches the primary action on mobile. Separate observed reference details from your own proposals.



Use those relationships to develop distinct candidate directions with the actual business facts and available media. Avoid assigning an industry a fixed hero, card style, section sequence, blurred header, or footer treatment. A restaurant with little food photography needs a different solution from an image-rich restaurant, even when both share a category.



Use the local block index only after the narrative and composition are established. Adapt or create site-owned components when needed. Preserve ordinary accessible control behavior and translate ideas into the harness's HTML/CSS system; reference framework APIs are not part of the design brief.



Never import a reference's claims, awards, testimonials, people, prices, or assets as evidence about the client. If a reference cannot be inspected, say so and use the captured business evidence to make the direction decision.