Client briefs for designers
Send your design clients a brief to fill in
Build a design brief form for the project, send your client one link, and their answers arrive organised before you open a single artboard. No more kick-off calls that end in guesswork.
How it works
Build the brief form
Start from a design brief template and tailor the questions: sections for the client's company, their audience, design preferences, competitors and positioning. Short and long answers, and file uploads for logos, brand guidelines and references.
Send your client one link
Your client opens the brief in your studio's branding, with no account to create. It saves as they go, so they can come back to it, and you can see how far they have got.
Answers arrive organised
Every answer lands on the design project, grouped by section, with the files they attached. Nothing to copy out of an email thread or a call recording.
Design against it
The brief stays referable for as long as the project runs. Quote against it, check design feedback against it, and point back to it when the goalposts move.
What’s included
- Bespoke, type-form-style design brief forms that clients actually finish, in your studio's brand
- Question types for short answers, long answers and file uploads (PDF, images or ZIP, up to 20MB each)
- Design brief templates to start from, tailored per project and service
- Share over a link: no client login, no sign-up wall
- Drafts autosave as your client types, and you can track their progress
- Answers stored on the design project, beside the quote, the contract and the feedback rounds
- Logos, guidelines and reference files kept in the project's storage
Why every design project should start with a brief
Most design projects go wrong before the first artboard is opened. The brief lived in a call, half of it never made it into notes, and the client remembers it differently. A written design brief that both sides can see fixes that, and a form makes it painless to collect.
The Drool Client Management brief tool is built by a working design studio for the way designers actually kick projects off: a handful of well-chosen questions, room for the client to drop references, and a permanent record the rest of the design project refers back to.
Questions
Do my design clients need an account to fill in a brief?
No. You send one link and they fill it in on any device, in your studio's branding. Their draft saves as they go, so they can stop and pick it up later.
Can I reuse a brief form across design projects?
Yes. Start from a template, tailor the questions for the project or design service, and reuse the form for the next client.
Can clients attach logos and brand files?
Yes. A file question accepts PDFs, images or ZIPs up to 20MB each, so logos, brand guidelines, fonts and inspiration arrive with the answers.
Where do the answers go?
On to the design project itself, next to the quote, the contract and the client feedback rounds, so every designer on your team can refer back to them.
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