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March 10, 2026

Product Page Design Best Practices That Actually Increase Conversions

Product page design best practices that increase ecommerce conversions. Learn how visual hierarchy, product images, and UX decisions impact buying behavior using real examples from Amazon.

March 10, 2026

The $500B Page Amazon Refuses to Fix

Visual chaos, a subscription trap, and a buying experience designed around promos, banners, and noise instead of the product.

August 1, 2025

5 Website Design Mistakes That Kill Trust (And How to Fix Them With Real Examples)

Discover 5 common website design mistakes that destroy trust and clarity—like bad navigation, poor contrast, baked-in image text, and inconsistent spacing. This breakdown uses a real homepage example to show each problem and how to fix it using UX best practices. Includes visual before/after comparisons and the full Figma file.

November 3, 2023

Build to learn, don't learn to build

Deductive learning (theory first, build later) is the most common form of skill acquisition. I've yet to learn and retain anything going about it that way. I prefer inductive learning (build first, theory later).

November 1, 2023

What we can learn from Pokemon card design

Pokémon cards have been around since 1999. So, card designers have had plenty of time and iterations to come up with stellar visual ideas to keep things interesting. Let's see what kind of takeaways we can extract from Pokémon card design.

October 30, 2023

Visual charisma: Standing out with ease through motifs

Motifs are rarely discussed in the visual design space which is a shame given how game-changing they are. Let's look at how to create a visual identity through motifs.

October 27, 2023

How to be creative: A simple two-step process

Creativity is about engaging in divergent thinking and convergent thinking in that order. In this blog post, I briefly explain these two thinking tools.

October 25, 2023

6 eye-catching visual ideas (part 2)

A collection of categorized visual ideas you can add to your arsenal and potentially apply to your next project. Many more visual ideas were shared in my newsletter. Subscribe to never miss out on useful content.

October 23, 2023

The anatomy of a design

Do you know the 4 elements that make up every design composition? We're zooming out and going back to first-order inquiries.