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When the brief says modern, give it a little more personality

“Modern” needs context. Describe the impression in a real setting, turn it into repeatable type, colour and motion choices and review it on a usable page.

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Designing a dark mode that still feels like your brand

Dark mode is more than a black background. Check there’s a real need, rebuild the palette by role, review images and make the preference behave like a choice.

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Your brand voice has to handle the error messages too

A playful voice can stay human when things go wrong. Lead with the useful sentence, be precise about what worked and dial down the personality when recovery matters.

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When a brand refresh should keep the familiar bits

A refresh needn’t make customers feel lost. Keep the signals people recognize, refine the system around them and change more only when the story no longer fits.

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Has the business grown beyond the story its website tells?

People may know your best-known service but not the rest. Check which service gets explained first, whether the evidence fits and if navigation carries both.

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PayPal’s refresh has a lesson for the least glamorous page on your website

PayPal’s 2024 refresh reaches past the logo into type, color and motion. The lesson: give receipts, forms and other ordinary screens a place in the design.

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One brand should not need six slightly different button styles

Button styles pile up like mugs in a cupboard. Keep variations that explain the action, put the decisions in theme.json and check the next page, not just today’s.

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What Decathlon’s rebrand can teach a much smaller website

A rebrand is more than a new logo. Translate the direction into one real page, give type, images and voice practical roles and carry them into the working screens.

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Your brand palette needs to work when colors are harder to tell apart

If color is the only signal, some visitors miss the message. Keep the brand, add labels and shapes, check text contrast separately and review real components.

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A useful design system can fit a small WordPress website

You don’t need enterprise ceremony. Settle the foundations, build sections around content jobs and make the component library useful to editors.

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