Why Beautiful Websites Don't Convert
Businesses forget that the purpose of the website is to get the user to click on a button as soon as possible
- Clarity: Does the user understand exactly what you do (for the user)?
- Trust: Can you make them trust you e.g. trust badges and social proof
Actionable steps:
- update your copy first
- you probably have the perfect copy in your head
- test performance
Cognitivie overload:
- less stimuli = better
header: Focus
subheader: Clarify
button: action
trust: prove
gaze principle -> point at the cta
make the cta a single/weird inconsitent colour
Loading speed is crucial
People are forgetting that you want the user to perform an action
design is about understanidng user intention, it is not about showing off complexity
Your copy is not good enough.
- perfect your copy
Hero is the key place to convince.
- understand design systems and follow it
- keep it simple:
- trust signal/kicker social proof e.g. award, stars
- problem solution header
- structure
- action, client problem, desired outcome
e.g. plumbing
transform your unreliable plumbing systems into pipes that last
- action, client problem, desired outcome
- structure
- clarifiaction subheader
- make some big claims/clarify
- create more trust/clear doubts
- call to action button
- you can only use another if your product is complicated e.g. how it works etc
if that does not work you clear doubts.