Ideas & Insights

Perspectives for navigating a rapidly changing digital landscape.

Thought leadership, industry intelligence and search-indexable observations about websites, branding and marketing.

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Web Strategy

7 Website Trends Transforming the Digital Landscape in 2026

Number four is “make the website useful,” disrupting conventional thinking across the industry.

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Growth

How to Turn Your Website Into a 24/7 Growth Engine

First, install an engine. Then strategically align it with outcomes.

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Brand

Why Authentic Brands Win in an Era of Digital Noise

A practical guide to being authentic in precisely the same language as everyone else.

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Featured Insight

The 2026 Digital Experience Outlook.

Customers expect websites to be fast, clear, useful and easy to navigate. This has remained unexpectedly stable despite twenty years of trend reports.

Current design fashion will continue changing. The fundamentals will not: explain what you do, make important information easy to find, use good typography, show credible work, answer real questions and give people an obvious next step.

This conclusion required significantly less than 42 pages of downloadable PDF.

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Executive Briefing

Five pillars of high-performing digital growth.

A framework so intuitively obvious that giving it five pillars is the only responsible way to charge for it.

1

Clarity

Say what the business does.

2

Trust

Show evidence that you can do it.

3

Visibility

Make the site findable.

4

Usability

Do not make visitors solve a puzzle.

5

Action

Tell them what to do next.

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Optimization

Continue saying optimization indefinitely.

Thought Leadership

Authenticity at scale.

The most authentic thing a business can do is sound like itself. The second-most authentic thing is apparently to use the word “authentic” seven times in a brand strategy deck.

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