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Marketing Website Case Studies Lie - The Maths, the Mess, the Exit
Sep 16, 2025

Marketing Website Case Studies Lie - The Maths, the Mess, the Exit

When "make it pop" meets "increase conversions by 400%" — spoiler: math doesn't work that way either.

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Why UX and Marketing Keep Failing – and How to Fix It with Backwards Campaigns
Sep 4, 2025

Why UX and Marketing Keep Failing – and How to Fix It with Backwards Campaigns

If the demo can't prove the headline in 60 seconds, change the headline.

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Simple Web Design: The No-Images Draft That Actually Converts
Sep 2, 2025

Simple Web Design: The No-Images Draft That Actually Converts

Everyone says they want simple web design. Then they brief a carousel, three gradients, abstract shapes, and a brand film with soft-focus office plants.

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Your SaaS Documentation Is Presales. Treat It Like One.
Aug 28, 2025

Your SaaS Documentation Is Presales. Treat It Like One.

Marketing automation SaaS. 42 employees. Series A closed. They hired an agency to redesign their website — recommended, SaaS portfolio, $18,000 for a six-week engagement.

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Landing Pages Fail When They Look Good But Load Slow
Aug 26, 2025

Landing Pages Fail When They Look Good But Load Slow

Slow pages don't just annoy people. They change their minds.

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The Real Cost of Startup Website Design and Development Nobody Tells You About
Jul 24, 2025

The Real Cost of Startup Website Design and Development Nobody Tells You About

Got an email at 3:47 AM last Tuesday.

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What SaaS Website Designers Get Wrong (And How to Fix It in 8 Seconds)
Jun 26, 2025

What SaaS Website Designers Get Wrong (And How to Fix It in 8 Seconds)

There's a quiet crisis in SaaS website design. Too many teams have traded clarity for theater. Instead of sites that inform, we get sites that perform — full of gradients, animations, and positioning

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SaaS Pricing Page Design: I Audited 31 SaaS Pricing Pages. Here's What Kills Conversion.
Jun 6, 2025

SaaS Pricing Page Design: I Audited 31 SaaS Pricing Pages. Here's What Kills Conversion.

47 features. That's the average number of features listed in a SaaS pricing page comparison table across the 31 pages I've audited over three years. B2B companies, $500K to $50M ARR.

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Startups We Admire (and Would Love to Design For)
Apr 21, 2025

Startups We Admire (and Would Love to Design For)

Okay, not quite. But yes — https://curated.dnsk.work is just a simple, slightly obsessive tool we made to track the startups we keep accidentally redesigning in our heads. It’s not a lead gen gimmick.

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