A Way With Words: Helping People Tell
Their Stories, One Word at a Time
Where Purpose Meets Creativity
A Way With Words is a creative writing platform in the UK committed to helping individuals keep, demonstrate, and explore their life stories, be it writing a memoir, creating original poetry, or gifting creativity—the name stands for deeply personal narrative experiences for each voice and journey. For seniors, there are ways to record family legacies, while young writers can discover slam poetry. A Way With Words has established itself as an important space for people connecting through writtenness. At the centre of the brand is a basic conviction: everybody has a story worth telling—and the words to tell it.
The Starting Point
Even though A Way With Words established a mission and extremely impactful offerings, its digital presence somehow lacked the intimacy, creativity, and emotional value that best described the brand. The site needed a more engaging platform that could showcase its diverse offerings while gently coaxing potential clients onwards to take that all-important first step—telling their story.
Here, the disconnect was between the soul of the service and the structure of the old site. Visitors needed clarity about services, an assurance of results, and much emotional buy-in to the platform’s mission.
Our Journey Begins
Esferasoft enhanced the digital platform, maintaining the authenticity and warmth that defined A Way With Words. The request was not merely to design a website; it was to create an invitation. This approach encouraged reflection, writing, and sharing.
Discovery & Insights
Through stakeholder interviews and audience analysis, we identified some key takeaways.
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Clients often come in with some emotion—they are not just looking for a writing service; rather, they are looking for a way to honour their voice or memory.
2
Most were non-writers—they needed a process that felt safe, simple, and guided.
3
The site needed to cater to a very diverse audience: seniors and parents, educators, aspiring poets, and thoughtful gift-givers.
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Clear pathways for products, including booking formats, inclusions, and delivery methods, were crucial for gift-givers and workshop seekers.
Strategy & Planning
We structure our digital roadmap around five key objectives.
Clarity of Offering
Define and structure the services—memoir writing, creative workshops, gift packages—into distinct, navigable journeys.
Emotional Resonance
Specialized in designing a communicative tone and visual, an emotional resonance that will convey the place as warm, reflective, and empowering
Streamlined Booking & Gifting
Effortlessly allow users to interact with the brand, whether signing up for a workshop or gifting someone a writing experience.
Trust Building through Story
Through real stories and testimonials or samples of writing, demonstrate depth and human connection in service.
Scalable Content Framework
The framework aims to facilitate the expansion of the blog, poetry library, and story showcase while maintaining consistency and discoverability.
Execution &
Innovation
Services Reorganized & User Flow
Clear paths to the offerings were created: “Tell Your Story,” “Participate in a Workshop,” and “Gift the Writing Process.” People can now navigate through the offerings without getting lost based on their personal, creative, or gift purposes.
Warmly Human-Centered Content
Headlines and microcopy were rewritten to sound conversational rather than like a sales pitch. In tone, they are soft and inspirational, non-threatening and putting forth the value of the brand: everyone’s voice matters.
Gift Experience Packaging
Thus, we introduced a complete reformulation of the gift purchase flow, complemented by amazing product pages for vouchers and personalised gifts.
Blog & Writing Showcase Integration
We have pushed the existing blog and the original writing content right on forward – real stories and poems at the heart of that site – rather than burying it under menus.
Mobile Optimization & UX Polish
The interface is optimised across all devices, readable and responsive, with a seamless experience from phones to tablets.
The Roadblocks We Overcame
Services like ghostwriting and legacy storytelling are so abstract that they require careful expression so as to inspire confidence, minus the use of jargon.
Balancing commerce and creativity meant doing away with any “transactional” feel while still maintaining a push to drive conversions and bookings.
Empathy in design required decisions that were almost felt: very specific typefaces, colours with a calm, personal feel, and immediate accessibility to emotion.
The Impact & Results
Relaunch:
More visitors now engage with the site by spending longer amounts of time reviewing workshops, sample writings, and story categories.
User feedback applauded the site's emotional clarity; quite a number have described it as calming, as encouraging, and as authentic.
Improved sales of gift vouchers – a simpler checkout process, as well as product information – made it easier.
Broader visibility for the brand was achieved through improved SEO, clearer messaging, and integrated blog content.
Writing That Connects
Esferasoft partnered closely with A Way With Words to assist them in realigning their digital presence with a deeper purpose: helping others find, shape, and share their stories. The result is a thoughtfully crafted, emotionally intelligent platform that does not solicit writing jobs – it invites transformation through storytelling.
Because some stories just need to be penned down. And others would just need a little push at the onset.
