Most brand refreshes are judged on how they look in a mood board and forgotten before they hit checkout. That's the mistake. A brand system is either compounding your conversion rate or leaking it — there is no neutral.
The four leaks we find on every audit
- Inconsistent CTA styling reducing click affordance.
- Type scale too loose — cognitive load on scanning.
- Color contrast that fails on mobile in daylight.
- Photography that signals category, not point-of-view.
A working checklist
Every element on your primary conversion path should answer three questions: who is this for, what happens next, why now. If a hero, a card or a button fails any of these, it's costing you money — regardless of how beautiful it looks.
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