UI/UX

DISTRESS SIGNAL DESIGN STUDIO — PROJECT INTAKE FORM

ROLE

Graphic Designer

TIMELINE

2026

TOOLS

Illustrator · Figma

SCOPE

Onboarding Potential Clients

OVERVIEW

Distress Signal is my own personal design studio that takes on vector, brand, and product work, and we needed a better front door for incoming project requests. I built an interactive intake form that pulls the right details out of a potential client up front, so we can turn a request around with a real scope, timeline, and quote instead of a back-and-forth email chain.

THE CHALLENGE

A design request can mean a logo, a full brand system, a product UI, or a rush poster due Friday, and each one needs different information to price. We were getting vague inquiries that took days of follow-up to pin down, and the form had to collect everything they need without feeling like a tax form to fill out.

THE APPROACH

 I designed a seven-step wizard that walks a client through contact, services, scope, budget and timeline, existing assets, and how they found the studio, with validation and a review screen before anything sends. It runs entirely on the studio's field-manual brand system (the radar, the signal language, the oat-and-burnt-orange palette), so the form reads as an extension of the work rather than a generic Google Form.

Want to see what its like to send a signal? Open up the intake form.

Don't worry, this is just a dummy form. No information is sent from here!

RUDOLPH WARD II — GRAPHIC & INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

© 2026